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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Acquisition of Territory. (search)
Albemarle, the,
A powerful Confederate iron-clad vessel that patrolled the waters off the coast of North Carolina during
Ram Albemarle. a part of the Civil War. Late in October, 1864, Lieut. W. B. Cushing, a daring young officer of the United States navy, undertook to destroy it. It was lying at Plymouth, behind a barricade of logs 30 feet in width.
With a small steam-launch equipped as a torpedo-boat, Cushing moved in towards Plymouth on a dark night (Oct. 27), with a crew of thirteen officers and men, part of whom had volunteered for this service.
The launch had a cutter in tow. They were within 20 yards of the ram before the were discovered, when its pickets began firing.
In the face of a severe discharge of musketry.
Cushing pressed to the attack.
He drove his launch far into the log barricade, lowered his torpedo boom, and drove it directly under the overhang of the ram.
The mine was exploded, and at the same moment one of the guns of the Albemarle hurled a heavy bolt
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Algonquian, or Algonkian, Indians , (search)
Ames, Adelbert, 1835-
Military officer; born in Rockland, Me., Oct. 31, 1835; was graduated at West Point in 1861; and for his gallant conduct in the Battle of Bull Run (1861) was brevetted major.
He served in the campaigns on the Peninsula in 1862.
At Chancellorsville he led a brigade, also at Gettysburg, in 1863, and before Petersburg, in 1864, he commanded a division.
In the expedition against Fort Fisher, near the close of that year, he commanded a division of colored troops, and afterwards led the same in North Carolina.
In the spring of 1865 he was brevetted major-general of volunteers and brigadier-general, U. S. A. In 1871 he was a representative of Mississippi in the United States Senate; was governor in 1874; and was appointed a brigadier-general of volunteers June 20, 1898, serving through the war with Spain.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Amnesty proclamations. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Andrews , Ethan Allen , 1787 - (search)
Andrews, Ethan Allen, 1787-
Educator; born in New Britain, Conn., April 7, 1787; was Professor of Ancient Languages at the University of North Carolina in 1822-28; and editor (with Jacob Abbott) of the Religious magazine, but was chiefly engaged in compiling classical text-books.
In 1850 he edited the well-known Latin-English Lexicon, based on Freund and Andreas' and Stoddard's Latin grammar.
He died March 4, 1858.