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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Big Blue Lick, battle at. (search)
Big Blue Lick, battle at.
Parties of Indians and Tories, from north of the Ohio, greatly harassed the settlements in Kentucky in 1782.
A large body of these, headed by Simon Girty, a cruel white miscreant, entered these settlements in August.
They were pursued by about 180 men, under Colonels Todd, Trigg, and Boone, who rashly attacked them (Aug. 19) at the Big Blue Lick, where the road from Maysville to Lexington crosses the Licking River in Nicholas county. One of the most sanguinary battles ever fought in Kentucky then and there occurred.
The Kentuckians lost sixty-seven men, killed, wounded, and prisoners; and, after a severe struggle, the rest escaped.
The slaughter in the river was great, the ford being crowded with white people and Indians, all fighting in horrid confusion.
The fugitives were keenly pursued for 20 miles. This was the last incursion south of the Ohio by any large body of barbarians.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Civil War in the United States . (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Nelson , Thomas Henry 1824 - (search)
Nelson, Thomas Henry 1824-
Diplomatist; born in Mason county, Ky., Aug. 12, 1824; studied law in Maysville, Ky.; later settled in Terre Haute, Ind., where he was one of the founders of the Republican party.
He was United States minister to Chile in 1861-66, and during this period made himself very popular by his rescue of many persons when the Santiago cathedral was burned, Dec. 6, 1864.
He was United States minister to Mexico in 1869-73.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Nelson , William 1847 -1772 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Prairie Grove , battle of. (search)
Prairie Grove, battle of.
In the summer of 1862 Gen. T. C. Hindman gathered about 40,000 men, largely made up of guerilla bands, in the vicinity of the Ozark Mountains.
Schofield, leaving Curtis in command of his district, marched against them late in September, 1862, with 8,000 men under Gen. J. G. Blunt.
This officer attacked a portion of them at Fort Wayne, near Maysville (Oct. 22), and drove them into the Indian country.
A week later a cavalry force under Gen. F. J. Herron struck another portion on the White River and drove them into the mountains.
Ill-health compelled Schofield to relinquish command, which was assumed by Blunt.
Hindman now determined to strike a decisive blow for the recovery of Arkansas from National control.
Late in November he had in one body about 20,000 men on the western borders of Arkansas, and on the 28th moved against Blunt.
His advance, composed of Marmaduke's cavalry, was attacked and defeated by Blunt on Boston Mountains.
The latter now
Zanesville,
A city and county seat of Muskingum county, O.; at the confluence of the Muskingum and Licking rivers; 59 miles east of Columbus.
It was laid out in 1799 by Ebenezer Zane (q. v.) and John McIntyre, who with Jonathan Zane surveyed the part of the national turnpike between Wheeling, W. Va., and Maysville, Ky., and acquired a large tract of land here.
The settlement was successively known as Zanetown, Westbourne, and, since 1804, Zanesville.
Here the first legislature of the State met in 1804-5, and here was the seat of the State government in 1810-12.
McIntyre built the first cabin, the first tavern, and the first ferry across the Muskingum, and left a handsome estate to the place for the support of free schools.
Population in 1900, 23,538.