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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 163 47 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore) 151 13 Browse Search
Col. J. J. Dickison, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 11.2, Florida (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 128 0 Browse Search
Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865 62 10 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 57 3 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore) 55 7 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore) 53 7 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 49 7 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Army Life in a Black Regiment 40 2 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 37 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Civil War in the United States. (search)
te steamers captured on the Yazoo River.—11. Governor Cannon, of Delaware, declared the national authority supreme.—18. House of Representatives of New Jersey pass peace resolutions.—19. Mount Sterling, Ky., taken by Confederates, and retaken by Nationals on the 23d. English-Confederate steamer Georgia, laden with arms, destroyed near Charleston.—25. Impressment of private property in the Confederacy authorized.—31. General Herron appointed to the command of the Army of the Frontier. Jacksonville, Fla., burned by Union colored troops and evacuated. —April 1. Cavalry fight. near Drainesville, Va.—2. Farragut's fleet ravaged in Red River. Serious bread-riot in Richmond; the mob mostly women.—3. Arrest of Knights of the Golden Circle at Reading, Pa.—4. Town of Palmyra, on the Cumberland, destroyed by National gunboats.—5. Confederate vessels detained at Liverpool by order of the British government.—6. President Lincoln and family visited the Army of the Potomac.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Custom-house, (search)
ives its clearance papers on departure; also where foreign goods, liable to duty, are inspected on their arrival. The following is the location of the principal customhouses in the United States: Alabama—Mobile. Alaska—Sitka. California—Eureka, San Diego, San Francisco, Wilmington. Colorado—Denver. Connecticut—Fairfield, Hartford, New Haven, New London, Stonington. Delaware—Wilmington. District of Columbia—Georgetown. Florida—Appalachicola, Cedar Keys, Fernandina, Jacksonville, Key West, Pensacola, St. Augustine, Tampa. Georgia—Atlanta, Brunswick, St. Mary's, Savannah. Illinois—Chicago, Galena. Indiana—Evansville, Indianapolis, Michigan City. Iowa—Burlington. Dubuque. Kentucky—Louisville, Paducah. Loulsiana—Brashear, New Orleans. Maine—Bangor, Bath, Belfast, Castine, Eastport, Ellsworth, Houlton, Kennebunk, Machias, Portland, Saco, Waldoborough, Wiscasset, York. Maryland—Annanolis, Baltimore. Crisfield. Mass
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Fires, Great. (search)
2,500 buildings burned; estimated loss about $3,500,000; many lives lostMay 3-5, 1851 San Francisco, Cal., 500 buildings; estimated loss, $3,000,000June 22, 1851 Congressional Library, Washington, D. C., 35,000 volumes, with works of artDec. 24, 1851 Syracuse, N. Y., 12 acres of ground burned over, about 100 buildings; loss, $1,000,000Nov. 8, 1856 New York Crystal Palace destroyed, with an immense amount of property on exhibitionOct. 5, 1858 Portland, Me., nearly destroyed; 10,000 people rendered homeless; loss, $15,000,000July 4, 1866 Great Chicago fire, burning over about 3 1/2 square miles, destroying 17,450 buildings, killing 200 persons, and rendering 98,500 homeless; loss over $200,000,000. The most destructive fire ever knownOct. 8-9, 1871 Great fire in Boston; over 800 buildings burned; loss, $80,000,000Nov. 9, 1872 Brooklyn Theatre (Brooklyn, N. Y.) burned; 295 lives lostDec. 5, 1876 Jacksonville, Fla.; 148 blocks burned over; loss estimated at $10,000,000May 3, 1901
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Florida, (search)
ard, and other government property in Florida. In the early part of the Civil War the national military and naval forces under General Wright and Commodore Dupont made easy conquests on the coast of Florida. In February, 1862, they captured Fort Clinch, on Amelia Island, which the Confederates had seized, and drove the Confederates from Fernandina. Other posts were speedily abandoned, and a flotilla of gunboats, under Lieut. T. H. Stevens, went up the St. John's River, and captured Jacksonville, March 11. St. Augustine was taken possession of about the same time by Commander C. R. P. Rogers, and the alarmed Confederates abandoned Pensacola and the fortifications opposite Fort Pickens. Before the middle of April the whole Atlantic coast from Cape Hatteras to Perdido Bay, west of Fort Pickens (excepting Charleston and its vicinity), had been abandoned by the Confederates. See United States, Florida, vol. IX. Territorial governors. NameTerm. Andrew Jackson1821 to 1822 Wil
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Greene, Francis Vinton 1850- (search)
he was promoted to captain. In 1885 he became Professor of Practical Military Engineering at West Point; and Dec. 31, 1886, resigned from the army. When the war with Spain broke out in 1898 he was commissioned colonel of the 71st New York Regiment, but before this regiment embarked for Cuba he was sent to Manila with the rank of brigadier-general of volunteers, and had command of the United States forces in the battle of Malate, June 30, 1898, and in other actions around Manila in August. On Aug. 13, 1898, he was promoted to major-general. Returning from the Philippines in October he was placed in command of the 2d Division of the 7th Army Corps, and was on duty at Jacksonville (Fla.), Savannah (Ga.), and Havana. He resigned his commission Feb. 28, 1899. He is the author of The Russian army and its campaigns in Turkey; Army life in Russia; The Mississippi campaign of the Civil War; Life of Nathanael Greene, Major-General in the army of the Revolution; and many magazine articles.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Laudonniere, Rene Goulaine de 1562-1586 (search)
Laudonniere, Rene Goulaine de 1562-1586 Colonist; born in France; first came to America in 1562 with the Huguenot colony under Ribault. In the spring of 1564 he was sent by Coligni with three ships to assist the first colony, but finding the Ribault settlement abandoned, went to Florida and built Fort Caroline on the St. Johns River. In the onslaught made upon the French colony by the Spaniards, Sept. 21, 1565, Laudonniere escaped. He wrote a history of the Florida enterprise, and died in France after 1586.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Olustee Station, battle of. (search)
expedition which General Gillmore was to send to Florida, Hay to act in a civil capacity if required. The expedition was commanded by Gen. Truman Seymour, who left Hilton Head (Feb. 5, 1864) in transports with 6,000 troops, and arrived at Jacksonville, Fla., on the 7th. Driving the Confederates from there, the Nationals pursued them into the interior. General Finnegan was in command of a considerable Confederate force in Florida, and stoutly opposed this movement. At Olustee Station, on a railway that crossed the peninsula in the heart of a cypress swamp, the Nationals encountered Finnegan, strongly posted. A sharp battle occurred (Feb. 20), when Seymour was repulsed and retreated to Jacksonville. The estimated loss to the Nationals in this expedition was about 2,000 men; the Confederate loss, 1,000 men and several guns. Seymour carried with him about 1,000 of the wounded, and left 250 on the field, besides many dead and dying. The expedition returned to Hilton Head. The Na
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Spinner, Francis Elias 1802-1890 (search)
5-49; member of Congress in 1854-61; and there was chairman of the committee on accounts at the close of his congressional career. He was treasurer of the United States from March 16, 1861, to June 30, 1875, when he resigned and settled in Jacksonville, Fla.; inaugurated the employment of women in the Treasury Department. When his resignation was accepted his accounts were specially examined at his own request, and an apparent discrepancy of one cent was found, but on a re-examination it was d at the close of his congressional career. He was treasurer of the United States from March 16, 1861, to June 30, 1875, when he resigned and settled in Jacksonville, Fla.; inaugurated the employment of women in the Treasury Department. When his resignation was accepted his accounts were specially examined at his own request, and an apparent discrepancy of one cent was found, but on a re-examination it was discovered that there was an even balance. He died in Jacksonville, Fla., Dec. 31, 1890.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
mation the President appoints May 1, 1893, as the opening, and the last Thursday of October, 1893, as the closing day of the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago......Dec. 24, 1890 Battle with Big foot's band of Indians on Wounded Knee Creek, S. D.; among the Indians killed were forty-four squaws and eighteen pappooses; loss to United States troops, thirty-two killed, thirty-nine wounded......Dec. 29, 1890 Gen. Francis E. Spinner, United States ex-treasurer, born 1802, dies at Jacksonville, Fla.......Dec. 31, 1890 International monetary conference meets at Washington......Jan. 7, 1891 Motion for leave to file a petition for a writ of prohibition against the condemnation of the Canadian sealer W. P. Sayward, condemned by the United States district court in Alaska in 1887 for violating United States laws, by taking seals in Bering Sea, and appealed to the Supreme Court, is entered on behalf of the attorney-general of Canada......Jan. 12, 1891 Senate passes a free-coinag
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Florida, (search)
ugitives, the survivors of the massacre at Fort Caroline, sails for France......Sept. 25, 1565 Murrendered to Dupont......March 12, 1862 Jacksonville evacuated by Federals......April 9, 1862 ls......Oct. 3, 1862 Federals again take Jacksonville......Oct. 5, 1862 St. Mary's shelled andFederal gunboat Mohawk......Nov. 9, 1862 Jacksonville taken by Federals under Colonel Higginson..e, 1889 Sub-tropical exposition opens at Jacksonville......Jan. 9, 1890 Constitutional amendmery of the United States, born 1802, dies at Jacksonville......Dec. 31, 1890 Large deposit of Kaol Florida East Coast Railway completed from Jacksonville to Miami, on Biscayne Bay, 366 miles......1ing, and presented to the city, unveiled in Jacksonville......June 17, 1898 Mercury fell to 2 degMay, 1900 Ex-Gov. George F. Drew dies at Jacksonville......Sept. 30, 1900 Constitutional amendoners, adopted......Nov. 6, 1900 Fire in Jacksonville destroyed almost all of the residence and b[6 more...]
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