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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Logan, John Alexander 1826-1886 (search)
Hooker's command being out of ammunition at the time, and in order that he might be prepared for this attack, and also that he might have his troops up and well in hand—inasmuch as he desired to send a portion of his forces in the direction of Gainesville and on to Thoroughfare Gap, so as to impede the advance of Longstreet, who was then marching rapidly to join Jackson—Pope issued the following imperative order to General Porter at 6.30 P. M., and sent the same by Capt. Drake De Kay, one of hiHooker has had a very severe action with the enemy, with a loss of about 300 killed and wounded. The enemy has been driven back, but is retiring along the railroad. We must drive him from Manassas, and clear the country between that place and Gainesville, where McDowell is. If Morell has not joined you, send word to him to push forward immediately; also send word to Banks to hurry forward with all speed to take your place at Warrenton Junction. It is necessary, on all accounts, that you shoul
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wrecks. (search)
o; fifty lives lost......July 26, 1874 Steam-yacht Mamie cut in two by steamer Garland on the Detroit River; sixteen lives lost......July 22, 1880 Steamer Victoria capsized on Thames River, Canada; 200 drowned......May 24, 1881 Steamer West Point burned in York River, Va.; nineteen lives lost......Dec. 26, 1881 Steamer Sciota wrecked in collision on the Ohio River; fifty-seven lives lost......July 4, 1882 Steamer W. H. Gardner burned on the Tombigbee River, 3 miles below Gainesville, Ala.; twenty-one lives lost......March 1, 1887 Notable wrecks and shipping disasters in foreign waters: Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean sea, etc. English ship Jane and Margaret, from Liverpool to New York, wrecked near the Isle of Man; over 200 lives lost......February, 1837 Governor Fenner, from Liverpool to America, run down off Holyhead by the steamer Nottingham, out of Dublin; 122 lives lost......Feb. 19, 1841 Emigrant ship Edmund, with nearly 200 passengers from Limerick to N