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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 25 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature | 18 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Adams , Samuel , 1722 -1803 (search)
Baird, Absalom, 1824-
Military officer; born in Washington, Pa., Aug. 20, 1824; was graduated at West Point in 1849, having studied law before he entered the military academy.
He was ordered to Washington,
Bainbridge's monument. D. C., in March, 1861, and in May was made assistant adjutant-general.
He became aide to General Tyler in the battle of Bull Run, and in November was made assistant inspector-general, with the rank of major.
In March, 1862, he became General Keys's chief of staff; and in April he was made brigadier-general of volunterrs, and sent to Kentucky.
He commanded a division under General Granger in April, 1863, and was afterwards active in northern Georgia and in the Atlanta campaign.
In Sherman's march to the sea he commanded a division of the 14th Army Corps, and also in the advance through the Carolinas.
He was brevetted major-general, U. S. A., in March, 1865; promoted brigadier-general and inspector-general in 1885; and retired in 1888.
Bell, John, -1869
Statesman; born near Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 15, 1797; was graduated at Cumberland College (now the University of Nashville) in 1814, and studied law in Franklin, Tenn. In 1817 he was elected to the State Senate.
After the expiration of his term he practised law till 1827, when he was elected to Congress.
he served in the House of Representatives till 1841 by re-elections.
After abandoning his free-trade views, he became one of the founders of the Whig party (q. v.), and was elected speaker of the House of Representatives in 1834. President Harrison appointed him Secretary of War in 1841, but he resigned with other members of the cabinet (excepting Daniel Webster) when President Tyler left the Whig party.
In 1847-59 he was a member of the United States Senate, and in 1860 he was the unsuccessful candidate of the constitutional Union party (q. v.) for President, with Edward Everett for Vice-President.
He died in Cumberland, Tenn., Sept. 10, 1869.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Declaration of Independence in the light of modern criticism, the. (search)
Declaration of Independence in the light of modern criticism, the.
As a student, critic, and compiler of American history Prof. Moses Coit Tyler holds an established position among the most eminent scholars.
In 1867 he was appointed to the chair of English Literature at the University of Michigan, which he occupied until 1881, when he was called to the University of Cornell as Professor of American History.
On the subject of criticisms on the Declaration of Independence he writes:
It can hardly be doubted that some hinderance to the right estimate of the Declaration of Independence is occasioned by either of two opposite conditions of mind, both of which are often to be met with among us: on the one hand, a condition of hereditary, uncritical awe and worship of the American Revolution, and of that state paper as its absolutely perfect and glorious expression; on the other hand, a later condition of cultivated distrust of the Declaration as a piece of writing lifted up into
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Fry , James Barnet 1827 -1894 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Greeley , Horace 1811 -1872 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hale , John Parker 1806 -1873 (search)
Hale, John Parker 1806-1873
Politician; born in Rochester, N. Ht., March 31, 1806: graduated at Bowdoin College in 1827; studied in his native town, and was there admitted to the bar in 1830.
He was appointed United States district attorney in 1834 and reappointed in 1838, but was removed, June 17, 1841, by President Tyler on party grounds.
In 1842 he was elected to Congress; and in 1847-53 was a United States Senator.
He was counsel, in 1851, in the trials which resulted from the forcible rescue of the fugitive slave Shadrach from the custody of the United States marshal in Boston.
He was nominated by the Free-soil party for President of the United States, with George W. Julian for Vice-President, in 1852, and received 157,680 votes.
In 1855 he was returned to the United States Senate for the four years of the unexpired term of Mr. Atherton, deceased, and in 1859 was re-elected for a full term.
He was United States minister to Spain in 1865-69.
He died in Dover, N. H.,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Henshaw , David 1791 -1852 (search)
Henshaw, David 1791-1852
Author; born in Leicester, Mass., April 2, 1791; became a strong Democrat and a stanch supporter of free-trade policy.
President Tyler appointed him Secretary of the Navy, July 24, 1843, but he served for a short time only, as his nomination was rejected by the Senate.
He was the author of Letters on the internal improvement and commerce of the West.
He died in Leicester, Mass., Nov. 11, 1852.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Homestead laws. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hunters' Lodges. (search)