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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 1: operations in Virginia.--battle of Chancellorsville.--siege of Suffolk. (search)
th commendation Generals Corcoran, Terry, Dodge, and Harland, and Colonels Dutton and Gibbs, commanding front lines; Colonels Gurney and Waddrop, commanding reserves; Colonels Spear and Onderdonk, of the cavalry. and Captain Follet. chief of artillery. The forts were in charge of the following officers: Fort Union, Colonel Drake; Nansernond, Colonel Hawkins; Halleck, Colonel Sullivan; Draw-bridge Battery, Colonel Davis; Battery Mansfield, Colonel Worth; the Redan and Battery Sosecrans, Colonel Thorpe; Battery Massachusetts, Captain Johnspn; Battery Montgomery, Colonel England; Battery Stevens, Colonel Pease; Fort Dix, Colonel McEvilly. and the Confederates, with overwhelming numbers, tried in vain every skill and strategy of modern warfare to accomplish their object. Finally, on the day when Hooker and Lee had their severe battle at Chaneellorsville, May 3, 1863. Longstreet, foiled and disheartened, turned his back on Peck and retreated, pursued as far as the Blackwater by National
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 I., chapter 2 (search)
deserving the name of serious resistance, it were absurd to claim for any colony or section a moral superiority in this regard over any other. The single and most honorable exception to the general facility with which this giant wrong was adopted and acquiesced in, is presented by the history of Georgia. That colony may owe something of her preeminence to her comparatively recent foundation; but she is far more indebted to the character and efforts of her illustrious founder. James Ogle-Thorpe was born in 1688, or 1689, at Godalming, Surry County, England; entered the British army in 1710; and, having resigned on the restoration of peace, was, in 1714, commended by the great Marlborough to his former associate in command, the famous Prince Eugene of Savoy, by whom he was appointed one of his aids. He fought under Eugene in his brilliant and successful campaign against the Turks in 1716 and 1717, closing with the siege and capture of Belgrade, which ended the war. Declining to rem
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), Doc. 19. the siege of Suffolk, Virginia. (search)
r the able management of Dr. Hand, was in excellent working order, and equal to every emergency. The wounded were promptly cared for, and spared all unnecessary suffering. The Commissary Department was admirably managed by the late Captain Bowdish, and since his death by Captain Felt. Colonel Murphy commanded brigade; Colonel Drake, Fort Union; Colonel Hawkins, Fort Nansemond; Captain Sullivan, Fort Halleck; Colonel Davis, the Draw-bridge Battery; Colonel Worth, Battery Mansfield; Colonel Thorpe, the Redan, and Rosecrans; Captain Johnson, Battery Mowdey; Colonel England, Battery Montgomery; Colonel Pease, Battery Stevens; Colonel McEvilly, Fort Dix, with ability, and their troops were always ready for the enemy. Major Stratton, Eleventh Pennsylvania cavalry, was at South Mills watching the operations of the troops from Carolina. By his discretion and energy the rebels were prevented from penetrating the Dismal Swamp. Captain Tamblyn, Lieutenants Seabury, Young, Thayer, St
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
bly the first Anglo-Saxon texts and grammar to be published in America were those edited by Louis F. Klipstein, a native of Virginia and a graduate of Hampden-Sidney College, who also studied at Giessen. In 1844 he edited in Charleston the Polyglott, a monthly magazine devoted to the French, German, Spanish, and Italian Languages. His Grammar of the Anglo-Saxon language and Analecta Anglo-Saxonica—Selections in prose and verse from the Anglo-Saxon literature (two volumes), both indebted to Thorpe, were much used as text books and went through several editions. He wrote and edited other books dealing with Anglo-Saxon, and planned still more, all of them deriving not from the German scholarship of his day but from English models. Old English, thus first cultivated in Virginia, was taught from 1839 to 1842 at Randolph-Macon College, Virginia, by Edward Dromgoole Simms. At Amherst it was taught as early as 1841, if not before, by William Chauncey Fowler, Noah Webster's son-in-law.
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
,000 Bequest, The, 14 Thirty years of labour, 358 Thirty years view . . . 1820 to 1850, 139 Thoburn, J. M., 212 Thomas, Augustus, 278, 279, 280, 282– 83, 284, 285, 287 Thomas, A. E., 294 Thomas, Edith, 312 Thomas, Isaiah, 537 n. Thompson, D. P., 416 Thompson, Denman, 285 Thompson, Maurice, 91 Thompson, R. E., 436 Thompson, S., 28 n., 29 n. Thompson, Waddy, 132, 133 Thomson, James, 539, 452 Thoreau, 112, 115, 116, 162, 313, 415 Thorndike, E. L., 422 Thorpe, 479 Those extraordinary Twins, 18 Thoughts and things, 257 Thoughts suggested by Mr. Froude's progress, 124 Thoughts on the present collegiate system of the United States, 413 Thoughts on the study of political economy, 431 Thoughts on the increasing wealth . . . of the United States, 432 Thousand years ago, a, 277 Three decades of Federal legislation, 351 Three episodes of Massachusetts history, 198 Three Fates, the, 87, 88 Three of us, the, 286, 295 Th
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 13: (search)
erbial expression, sometimes ambas sillas, referring to the silla a la quieta and the albarda, and sometimes de todas sillas, referring to all modes of mounting and riding, I suppose it means what we mean when we say a man is up to anything, just as the converse, no ser para silla ni para albarda, means a blockhead. . . . . Thank you, too, very much for the note about the New Testament of Juan Perez. I never saw the book, and do not understand whether you have a copy, or only saw one at Thorpe's. But, if you have one at hand, I should be much obliged if you will give me a little bibliographical account of it. I am much struck by what you say about Francis Newman and his Phases of Faith; the more so, because only the Sunday before your letter came, I read a book, by William Rathbone Greg, called The Creed of Christendom, to which your account of Newman's could be applied verbatim. It came to me from the author. . . . It is a formidable book, not too long to be popular,—a small
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Beauregard's report of the battle of Drury's Bluff. (search)
harged and charged again until the sun went down, and driven it to seek safety with the main body now encamped twelve miles from the scene of his first attack. Shelby then encamped. In this day's fight, foremost in the pursuit, fell mortally wounded second Lieutenant Trigg of my escort, who was sent by me to General Shelby with despatches, and having accomplished that duty, and the fight coming on, joined the advance, and there fought with a valor worthy the emulation of the bravest. Captain Thorpe, of Elliott's battalion, the advance, charged with his company through a regiment of Federal infantry, scattering them to the four winds. He received a severe though not mortal wound in that charge. Placing a sufficient force at Elkin's Ferry to hold in check any further advance until it could be reinforced, Cabell's and Greene's brigades were camped so as to reach in time any of the fords yet liable to be crossed by the main body of the Federal army. The 3d of April was passed by t
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Campaign against Steele in April, 1864. (search)
harged and charged again until the sun went down, and driven it to seek safety with the main body now encamped twelve miles from the scene of his first attack. Shelby then encamped. In this day's fight, foremost in the pursuit, fell mortally wounded second Lieutenant Trigg of my escort, who was sent by me to General Shelby with despatches, and having accomplished that duty, and the fight coming on, joined the advance, and there fought with a valor worthy the emulation of the bravest. Captain Thorpe, of Elliott's battalion, the advance, charged with his company through a regiment of Federal infantry, scattering them to the four winds. He received a severe though not mortal wound in that charge. Placing a sufficient force at Elkin's Ferry to hold in check any further advance until it could be reinforced, Cabell's and Greene's brigades were camped so as to reach in time any of the fords yet liable to be crossed by the main body of the Federal army. The 3d of April was passed by t
The Daily Dispatch: February 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Going to bed--a Philosophical view. (search)
The old "Spirit of the times" entered upon its thirty-first volume on the 9th inst., appearing in an entire new dress of type and four additional pages to its heretofore large and attractive form. Under Messrs. Jones & Thorpe its Editorial Department is decidedly improved. No paper in the country has, throughout its management, maintained a more consistent course than this journal,--Notwithstanding the vicissitudes of polities and panics it has pursued the even tenor of its way, and maintained its deservedly high popularity among sporting men and lovers of humor in all sections of the country.
The Daily Dispatch: August 3, 1863., [Electronic resource], From Gen. Lee's army — fight in Culpeper county. (search)
the gunboats kept the river, while the Union forces, under Generals Judah, Hobson, Shackelford, Wolford, &c., pursued them from point to point, intercepting them at one place and forcing them to fight, overtaking them at another and bringing on a contest, until at Buffington Island a large portion of their rebel force was captured, including the following officers: Colonels B. W Duke, W W Ward, D N Smith, B O Morgan; Lieut Col. J W Hoffman; Majors W P Elliott, R S Ballock; Captains P H Thorpe, G M Coleman, T E Eastin, T H Hines, W B Cunningham, Miles Griffin. H C Ellis, J B Barker, C G Campbell, E W Terrell, Jno Hunter, S C Mullens, E T Rochester, A J Bruner, J L N Pickens, J W Mitchell, B A Tracey; Surgeons Trigg, M W Standford D Carter, T B Lewis, A M Cown, D C, Redford, A C Raines; Rev T D Moore; Lieutenants Litzy, J W McMichael, J H Green, Mundy, Ph Price, A A Q M, W P Togg, J T Sinclair, J B Talbott, J P Webb, R W Fenswick, Robert Cunningham, K F Peddicord, M M Thomason, To
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