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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 43 15 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 38 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 20 0 Browse Search
Col. J. Stoddard Johnston, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 9.1, Kentucky (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 19 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 12 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: October 14, 1862., [Electronic resource] 11 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 35. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 10 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles 10 0 Browse Search
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders. 10 0 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. 10 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Civil War in the United States. (search)
adjourned, to meet again early in January, 1863.— 14. In the State elections held in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana, the Republicans were defeated.—15. Severe battle between Lexington and Richmond, in which 45,000 Confederates were repulsed by 18,000 Nationals. There was heavy loss on both sides.—18. The guerilla chief Morgan dashed into Lexington, Ky., and took 125 prisoners.—20. In the early hours of the morning a small Confederate force destroyed a National train of wagons near Bardstown, Ky., and at daylight they captured another train there.—21. Confederates near Nashville attacked and dispersed. —22. The governor of Kentucky called on the people of Louisville to defend the menaced city.—24. General Rosecrans succeeded General Buell in command of the army in Kentucky. Skirmish at Morgantown, Ky.—27. Confederates attacked and defeated at Putnam's Ferry, Mo.—28. Battle near Fayetteville, Ark., where the Confederates were defeated and chased to the Boston Mount
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), David, Jean Baptist, 1761-1841 (search)
in 1785; came to the United States in 1792; and was superintendent of missions in lower Maryland. He was the first priest in America to establish spiritual retreats for the laity. In 1806 he accepted a professorship in the College of St. Mary's; in 1810 went West and founded the St. Thomas Theological Seminary in Bardstown, Ky.; and in 1823 secured a charter from the Kentucky legislature raising the institution he had founded to the grade of a university. He died in Bardstown, Ky., in 1841. in 1785; came to the United States in 1792; and was superintendent of missions in lower Maryland. He was the first priest in America to establish spiritual retreats for the laity. In 1806 he accepted a professorship in the College of St. Mary's; in 1810 went West and founded the St. Thomas Theological Seminary in Bardstown, Ky.; and in 1823 secured a charter from the Kentucky legislature raising the institution he had founded to the grade of a university. He died in Bardstown, Ky., in 1841.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Fitch, John 1743-1798 (search)
volution, and at Trenton, N. J., manufactured sleeve-buttons. For a while, near the close of the war, he was a surveyor in Virginia, during which time he prepared, engraved on copper, and printed on a press of his own manufacture, a map of the Northwest country, afterwards formed into a Territory. He constructed a steamboat in 1786 that could be propelled eight miles an hour. A company was formed (1788) in Philadelphia, which caused a steam-packet to ply on the Delaware River, and it ran for about two years when the company failed. In 1793 he unsuccessfully tried his steam navigation projects in France. Discouraged, he went to the Western country again, where Fitch's steamboat. he died in Bardstown, Ky., July 2, 1798, leaving behind him a history of his adventures in the steamboat enterprise, in a sealed envelope, directed to My children and future generations, from which Thompson Westcott, of Philadelphia, prepared an interesting biography of Fitch, which was published in 1867.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), O'Hara, Theodore 1820- (search)
O'Hara, Theodore 1820- Poet; born in Danville, Ky., Feb. 11, 1820; graduated at St. Joseph Academy, Bardstown, Ky.; and admitted to the bar in 1845. He was appointed captain and assistant quartermaster in the army in June, 1846, and served with distinction throughout the Mexican War. After the remains of the Kentucky soldiers who fell at Buena Vista were reinterred in their native State he wrote for that occasion the well-known poem, The bivouac of the dead, the first stanza of which is: The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo. No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On Fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents are spread; And Glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead. During the Civil War he enlisted in the Confederate army and became colonel of the 12th Alabama Regiment. He died near Guerryton, Ala., June 6, 1867.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
Newport adopted......Dec. 14, 1795 Thomas Powers again sent by Carondelet to Kentucky with the outline of a provisional treaty and a letter to Judge Sebastian to concert a separation of Kentucky from the Union......July 12, 1797 Henry Clay removes from Virginia and opens a law office in Lexington......November, 1797 Endowment by the legislature of five educational academies in Kentucky, each with 6,000 acres of land......Feb. 10, 1798 John Fitch, inventor of steamboat, dies at Bardstown, aged fifty-five......June, 1798 Kentucky resolutions of 1798, suggesting nullification of the alien and sedition laws, introduced by John Breckinridge; pass both Houses of the legislature......Nov. 16, 1798 Transylvania University established at Lexington by union of Transylvania Seminary (founded 1780) and Kentucky Academy (founded 1796)......Dec. 22, 1798 Constitutional convention in Frankfort......Aug. 17, 1799 At Harpe's Head, 3 miles from Dixon, Webster county, highwayman
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Warden, Robert Bruce 1824- (search)
Warden, Robert Bruce 1824- Author; born in Bardstown, Ky., Jan. 18, 1824; was admitted to the bar in 1845; became president-judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Cincinnati; reporter of the Supreme Court of Ohio; and an associate judge of that court. He wrote A voter's version of the life and character of Stephen Arnold Douglas; An account of the private life and public services of Salmon Portland Chase, etc.