hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 15. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: January 13, 1865., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Your search returned 5 results in 3 document sections:

Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Deaf Mutes, education of. (search)
Deaf Mutes, education of. As early as 1793 Dr. W. Thornton published an essay in Philadelphia on Teaching the dumb to speak, but no attempt was made to establish a school for the purpose here until 1811, when the effort was unsuccessful. A school for the instruction of the silent that proved successful was opened in Hartford, Conn., by Rev. Thomas H. Gallaudet (q. v.) in 1817, and was chartered under the name of the New England Asylum for the deaf and dumb. Congress granted for its support a township of land in Alabama, the proceeds of which formed a fund of about $340,000. Other asylums have since been established, numbering thirty-six in 1870, and a national deaf mute college was established at Washington in 1864. In 1876 there were about 4,400 pupils in these institutions. At the close of the school year 1898 the total number of schools for deaf mutes reporting to the United States bureau of education was 105, with 1,100 instructors and 10,878 pupils. There were fifty-o
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 15. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Semmes' Georgia Brigade. (search)
, L. R. Banks, Private A. H. Sutley, D. R. Logan. Co. E. Private W. L. Helms, H. C. Twichen, P. Loyd, Private H. H. Dukes, J. A. Malcon, W. Jones. Co. F. Private L. L. Walker, J. R. Parr, C. B. Smith, Private L. Howell, M. Cleavland. Co. G. Private I. M. Huckleby, S. J. Humdem, W. T. Chappell, Private B. T. Swan, L. J. Pyran. Co. H. Private S. G. Bircland, Corporal G. W. Smirkland, Private S. J. Joiner, L. B. Justice, Private M. K. Jordan, N. Stewart, W. Thornton. Co. I. Sergeant J. W. Mayo, Private J. M. Phinozo, Private J. L. Crawly, D. F. Evans. J. N. Gray, Co. K. Private T. J. Gowens, Private J. M. Smith, J. W. Wheeler, Hos. Stew't J. Thaxton. [64] Second Corps-Lieutenant-General John B. Gordon. J. B. Gordon, Maj.-Gen. Commanding Corps. R. W. Hunter, Maj. and A. A. Gen. 2d Corps, A. N. V. Hunter McGuire, Surg. and Med'l Director 2d Corps, A. N. V. Jno. H. Stevens, Surg. and Med'l Inspector, 2d Corps, A. N. V.
The Daily Dispatch: January 13, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ssed by his colleague, (Mr. Yeaman,) and contended that the adoption of the amendment would only serve to augment the difficulties surrounding us. From Grant's army. A letter from Grant's army, dated the 7th, says: There is nothing new to report on the lines in front of Petersburg. Same shelling took place near the Appomattox yesterday morning, but without any important result. Four deserters were executed yesterday. One was hung and three were shot. The first was W. Thornton, of the One Hundred and Seventy-ninth New York, for having deserted to the enemy. The other were: John Benson, Fifth New Hampshire; Peter M. Cox, Fourth New Jersey; and Michael Wood, One Hundred and Eighty-fourth Pennsylvania. Some fifteen deserters from the enemy came in this morning, four of them being cavalrymen, with their horses and equipments. A party of poor whites, numbering about twenty-five, said to be lately inmates of a poor-house in Prince George county, came into