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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), The First recruit. (search)
The First recruit. On the sixteenth of April, 1861, when the Governor of Pennsylvania, just after the Fort Sumter affair, at the instance of President Lincoln, called for three companies of militia from the counties of Mifflin, Schuylkill, and Berks, the first recruit was a Philadelphian, who telegraphed his application. He served three months with the Logan guard, of Lewistown, Mifflin county, and is now in the Armory Square Hospital, under Surgeon George H. Mitchell's medical treatment. His name is John T. Hunter, and he is now attached to the Nineteenth regiment Pennsylvania volunteers.--Philadelphia Inquirer, March 16.
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Chapter 6: Federal armies, Corps and leaders (search)
In December, 1864, he succeeded Major-General Rosecrans in the Department of Missouri, and remained there until the close of the war. He resigned front the service in May, 1866, and became chief engineer of the Union Pacific and Texas Pacific railways. In 1866-67, he was member of Congress from Iowa. In 1898, he was at the head of the commission appointed to investigate the conduct of the SpanishAmerican war. Major-General Andrew Jackson Smith (U. S. M.A. 1838) was born in Berks County, Pennsylvania, April 28, 1815, and served in the Mexican War and in the West. He was made major in the cavalry when the Civil War broke out. His appointment of brigadier-general of volunteers was dated March 17, 1862. He had a division in the Army of the Ohio, but his name is chiefly associated with the Army of the Tennessee. He commanded a division in the Thirteenth Corps and was with the Yazoo Expedition and McClernand's Army of the Mississippi, and took part in Federal generals--no.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lincoln, Abraham 1809- (search)
Lincoln, Abraham 1809- Sixteenth President of the United States, was born in Hardin county, Ky., Feb. 12, 1809. His ancestors were Quakers in Berks county, Pa. His parents, born in Virginia, emigrated to Kentucky, and in 1816 went to Indiana. Having had about one year's schooling in the aggregate, he went as a hired hand on a flat-boat to New Orleans when he was nineteen years of age. He made himself so useful to his employer that he gave him charge as clerk of a store and mill at New Salem, Ill. He commanded a company in the Black Hawk War. Appointed postmaster at Salem, he began to study law, was admitted to practice in 1836, and began his career as a lawyer at Springfield. He rose rapidly in his profession, became a leader of the Whig party in Illinois, and was a popular though homely speaker at political Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln. meetings. He was elected to Congress in 1847, and was there distinguished for his outspoken anti-slavery views. In 1858 he was a c
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Palatines. (search)
een provided for them at her own expense. This first company of Palatines was first landed on Governor's Island, New York, and afterwards settled near the site of Newburg, Orange co., N. Y., in the spring of 1709. In 1710 a larger emigration of Palatines to America occurred, under the guidance of Robert Hunter, governor of New York. These, about 3,000 in number, went farther up the Hudson. Some settled on Livingston's Manor, at Germantown, where a tract of 6,000 acres was bought from Livingston by the British government for their use. Some soon afterwards crossed the Hudson into Greene county and settled at West Camp; others went far up the Mohawk and settled the district known as the German Flats; while a considerable body went to Berks county, Pa., and were the ancestors of many patriotic families in that State. Among the emigrants with Hunter a violent sickness broke out, and 470 of them died. With this company came John Peter Zenger (q. v.) and his widowed mother, Johanna.
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Mr. Buchanan's administration. (search)
e of the ancient province of Louisiana, was not embraced by the Missouri Compromise. The late President, then Secretary of State, strongly urged the extension of the line of 36° 30′ through this territory to the Pacific Ocean, as the best mode of adjustment. He believed that its division by this ancient line, to which we had been long accustomed, would be more just in itself, and more acceptable to the people, both North and South, than any new plan which could be devised. Letter to Berks County, Aug. 25, 1847. This proposal was defeated by the Wilmot Proviso. That ill-starred measure continued to be forced upon the consideration of Congress, as well as of State Legislatures, session after session, in various forms. Whilst Northern Legislatures were passing resolutions instructing their Senators and requesting their Representatives. to vote for the Wilmot Proviso, Southern Legislatures and conventions were passing resolutions pledging themselves to measures of resistance.
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 31: (search)
tions and cold in action; nor have it said of Philadelphia that she passed noble resolutions and neglected them, were the words of Mifflin, youngest of the orators who on the twenty- Chap. XXXI.} 1775. May. fifth of April, addressed the town-meeting called in Philadelphia on receiving the news from Lexington. Thousands of the inhabitants of the city were present, and agreed to associate for the purpose of defending with arms, their lives, their property, and liberty. Each township in Berks county, resolved to raise and discipline its company. Reading formed a company of its old men also, who wore crape in lieu of a cockade, in token of sorrow for the slaughter of their brethren. In Philadelphia thirty companies, with fifty to one hundred in each, daily practised the manual exercise of the musket. The Pennsylvania assembly which met on the first day of May, would not listen to the ministerial terms. We can form, say they, no prospect of any lasting advantages for Pennsylvania
The Daily Dispatch: may 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
onths ago a fellow calling himself Edward Moore was convicted before the Hustings Court and sentenced to six months imprisonment in the city jail, for attempting to pick Col. John Dickinson's pocket on the cars. After the fellow had been in jail several months, a requisition was received from Wm.F. Packer, then acting as the Governor of the State of Pennsylvania, claiming the prisoner, under the name of Edward Livingston, as a fugitive from justice, he having committed a petty larceny in Berks county, in that State. The man's term of imprisonment expires on the 18th. Since he has been in jail the political status of the country has been changed. Virginia is now a foreign country, so far as Pennsylvania is concerned. Whether the man shall be given up or not, in the absence of a treaty on that subject between the custodians of his person, is a matter of discretion with Gov. Letcher. He may or may not be given up. Being under duress he could be disposed of in any way. The Lincolnite
The Daily Dispatch: December 27, 1860., [Electronic resource], Washington, Dec. 25th, 1860. (search)
s passed and gone. The time has come for action! action!! action!!! The city of Philadelphia, which polled eighty thousand votes at the late election, ought to be able to put in the field to-morrow thirty thousand volunteers. Her great fire department alone is a splendid military organization, and her young men only need the right kind of leaders to form a corps d'orniee of more magnificence than that of any other city in the Union, only excepting that of New York.--The great counties of Berks, and Montgomery, and Lancaster, and Northampton — Lancaster alone exhibiting a population of one hundred and sixteen thousand--would swell this force into an army more powerful than all the Southern States combined could put into the field. These, with the fighting men of the other counties of the States, properly roused and officered, could soon be made ready for any call on the part of the proper authorities. Gov. Packer, always keenly alive to the honor of his country, should act in the
The Daily Dispatch: September 15, 1862., [Electronic resource], Latest from the North: (search)
bels had entered Hagerstown at six P. M. Jackson undoubtedly moved from Boonsboro' towards Hagerstown; but there is nothing reliable as to his near approach to Hagerstown. He may be moving to Williamsport to cut off General White, now at Martinsburg and Harper's Ferry, or direct upon Waynesboro' in this State. The former is most probable. The Northern Central Railroad and telegraph are still untouched. The people of Pennsylvania are now thoroughly aroused, and one thousand men from Berks county and one thousand from Chester will probably be here by morning, in anticipation of the Governor's call, and within twenty-four hours 20,000 men will be in the Cumberland Valley, and before Jackson can reach Chambersburg, he will be required to meet and overcome 50,000 of Pennsylvania's yeomanry General Wool has been assigned to the command of all the troops north of the Susquehanna. A mail carrier was taken prisoner and held five hours. He says great numbers threw themselves dow
The Daily Dispatch: October 14, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 9 (search)
From other parts in the neighborhood forces could be collected suddenly to swell the aggregate to some five or six thousand men. Fortunately the recent militia gathering established the organizations, which will now be useful for the people to rally around, to repel the invaders, and as the telegraph says that Governor Curtin has commenced sending forces forward to defend the State we presume that he has promptly called out those nearest and most serviceable. From the populous counties of Berks, Schuylkill, and Lancaster, help will no doubt go forward immediately, although the rapidity with which the rebels advance seems to give assurance that they have thoroughly informed themselves of the defenceless condition of the State, and have resolved to profit by it to the utmost. The natural inquiry, what is the object of the invasion, is not difficult to answer. Since the great battle of Antietam, McClellan has been gradually but slowly pushing his army forward into Virginia. Had
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