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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Chapter 1: Ulysses Simpson Grant (search)
the experience of the past few weeks, the outlook for the future was far from bright. Yet here Grant sits serene, undaunted, confident that no army with ever lessening resources can stand the weight of metal and men which he has been hurling for many weeks against Lee. of publicity, as Grant was by mention in General orders commending him for acts of special distinction in battle, showing both intelligence and daring. meeting General Grant not long after his return to military life, Henry Villard reported that there was certainly nothing in his outward appearance or in his personal ways or conversation to indicate the great military qualities he possessed. Firmness seemed to me about the only characteristic expressed in his features. Otherwise, he was a very plain, unpretentious, unimposing person, easily approached, reticent as a rule, and yet showing at times a fondness for a chat about all sorts of things. This ordinary exterior, however, made it as difficult for me, as in
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
rd, born 1818, dies at Havana, Cuba......July 22, 1883 Capt. Matthew Webb drowned in swimming the whirlpool below Niagara (body found at Lewiston four days later)......July 4, 1883 Southern exposition opened at Louisville, Ky., by President Arthur......Aug. 1, 1883 American forestry congress meets at St. Paul, Minn......Aug. 8, 1883 Boston foreign exhibition opens,......Sept. 3, 1883 Last spike of the Northern Pacific Railroad driven opposite mouth of Gold Creek, Mont., by Henry Villard......Sept. 9, 1883 United States steamer Yantic and Arctic steamer Proteus leave St. John's, Newfoundland, for relief of Greely expedition, June 29; the Proteus is crushed in the ice at entrance to Smith's Sound, July 23; the Yantic, returning, arrives at St. John's......Sept. 13, 1883 President Arthur receives the Korean ambassadors at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York City......Sept. 18, 1883 Direct telegraphic communication between United States and Brazil via Central America
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Montana, (search)
mer Josephine, June 15, ascending to Huntley, 418 miles......June, 1875 Sioux Indians under Sitting Bull, near the Little Big Horn River, massacre Gen. George A. Custer, with five companies (276 men) of the 7th Cavalry, no man escaping......June 25, 1876 Fort Assiniboine, near the Milk River, established......May 9, 1879 Uncalled territorial bonds, amounting to $45,000, redeemed and cancelled, thus extinguishing all registered indebtedness of the Territory......March 1, 1883 Henry Villard, president of the Northern Pacific Railroad, completes the work on that road, by driving the last spike opposite the entrance of Gold Creek into Deer Lodge River......Sept. 8, 1883 Settlement in Deer Lodge and Gallatin counties of monogamic Mormons ex pelled from Utah for apostasy......1883 Constitutional convention meets Jan. 14, 1884, and adjourns Feb. 9; its constitution was ratified by the people Nov. 4, and submitted to Congress, asking admission into the Union......1884 Fi
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, (search)
n......Oct. 29, 1900 William L. Strong, merchant, and former mayor of New York, born 1827, dies at New York City......Nov. 2, 1900 Governor Roosevelt finishes his campaign tour in Oswego, N. Y., having travelled 21,209 miles in eight weeks, addressed audiences aggregating 3,000,000 persons in twenty-four States......Nov. 2, 1900 Republicans' great sound-money parade in New York......Nov. 3, 1900 Election of B. B. Odell, Republican, as governor of New York......Nov. 6, 1900 Henry Villard, financier, born 1835, dies at Dobbs Ferry, N. Y.......Nov. 11, 1900 Oswald Ottendorfer, journalist, born 1826, dies at New York City......Dec. 16, 1900 Governor Roosevelt removes District Attorney Asa Bird Gardiner, of New York, on charges, and appoints Eugene A. Philbin as his successor......Dec. 21, 1900 Governor Odell transmits to the legislature the report of the New York City charter revision with a message urging municipal economy......Jan. 21, 1901 Sing Sing prison is
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Villard, Henry 1835- (search)
Villard, Henry 1835- Financier: born in Spire, Germany, April 11, 1835; received a collegiate education; came to the United States in-1853; settled in Chicago and became a newspaper correspondent; and went to the Colorado gold region in 1859 as a writer for the Cincinnati Commercial. During the Civil War he was a Washington correspondent for Western and Eastern papers. In 1873 he purchased the Oregon and California Railroad and the Oregon steamship companies for German stockholders, and two years later became receiver, with C. S. Greeley, of the Kansas Pacific Railroad. He then organized the Oregon and Transcontinental Company, which gained control of the Northern Pacific and of the Oregon Railway and Pacific companies. He was president of the Northern Pacific in 1881-84, and chairman of the board of directors of the same company in 1889-93. He bought the Edison Lamp Company, of Newark, N. J., and the Edison Machine Works, of Schenectady, N. Y., in 1890, and from these form
Archibald H. Grimke, William Lloyd Garrison the Abolitionist, Chapter 21: the last. (search)
approaching meeting with those white-souled women cheered and comforted the reformer amid excruciating physical sufferings. Worn out by heroic and Herculean labors for mankind and by a complication of diseases, he more and more longed for rest, to go home to beloved ones as he expressed it. To the question, What do you want, Mr. Garrison? asked by the attending physician on the day before his death, he replied, weariedly, To finish it up! And this he did at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Henry Villard, in New York, in the midst of children and grandchildren, near midnight, on May 24, 1879. While that ear could listen, said Wendell Phillips over the illustrious champion of liberty as he lay dead in the old church in Roxbury; While that ear could listen, God gave what he has rarely given to man, the plaudits and prayers of four millions of victims. But as he lay there he had, besides, the plaudits and praise of an emancipated nation. The plaudits and praise of an emancipated race
Archibald H. Grimke, William Lloyd Garrison the Abolitionist, Index. (search)
. Stevens, Thaddeus, 338. Stuart, Charles, 201, 202, 264. Sumner, Charles, 234, 317, 339, 346, 359, Tappan, Arthur, 83, 84, 164, 171, 184, 209, 210. Tappan, Lewis, 149. 177, 201, 209, 283, 285. Texas Agitation, 314-318. Thompson, George, 204-206, 210, 212, 213, 216, 217, 218, 238, 294, 295, 351, 383, 385. Thurston, David, 18o. Tilton, Theodore, 382. Todd, Francis, 75, 76, 77, 81, 82, 87. Toombs, Robert, 338. Travis, Joseph, 124. Turner, Nat., 124-125. Uncle Tom's Cabin, 351-352. Villard, Mrs. Henry, 394. Walker, David, 121, 122, 123, 126. Ward, Rev. Samuel R., 344. Ware, Rev. Henry, Jr., 203. Weob, Richard D., 310, 316, 318, 326. Webster, Daniel, 35, 101, 110, III, 117, 249, 338, 339, 347, 348, 370. Weld, Theodore D., 149, 190, 264, 279. Wesley, John, 70, 107. White, Nathaniel H., 41. Whitney, Eli, 98. Whittier, John Greenleaf, 34, 175, 179, 186, 202, 234, 279, 320. Wilberforce, William, 152, 154. Winslow, Isaac, 177. Winslow, Nathan, 177. Wright, Elizur, 147
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1, Chapter 26: transferred to the West; battle of Wauhatchie (search)
l to the west and join Rosecrans as soon as it could be done. I remember, years afterwards, just after the completion of the Northern Pacific, I waited a day and a night for a train at the junction of the Utah Northern with that railroad. Mr. Henry Villard, the president of the road, and his guests from Europe and from the Eastern States were returning from the occasion of the driving of the golden spike. It was making a trial trip. Train after train whizzed past my station, keeping regular intervals apart. These had the road all to themselves. They reminded me forcibly of our manner of moving troops during the war. However, we never went as Villard did, at forty or fifty miles an hour. We did well to average fifteen. After an interview with my commanders I paid a visit to the President. It was during that visit that Mr. .Lincoln pulled down his map from the wall and, putting his finger on Cumberland Gap, asked: General, can't you go through here and seize Knoxvillet Speak
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Index (search)
States Military Academy, I, 42, 45, 55, 59, 70, 88, 89, 98. Bible Class, I, 52. Cadet at the, I, 44-58. Graduation, I, 59-73. Instructor, I, 90, 111. Superintendent of the, II, 485-490. Upham, Elizabeth K., II, 556. Upham, Francis W., II, 556. Upham, Thomas C., I,.31, 33. Upton, Emery, I, 92. Vandever, William, II, 58. Van Dorn, Earl, 1, 103. Van Duzer, John C., I, 525, 580. Vefik, Achmet, II, 511, 512. Vicars, Hedley, 1, 81. Victoria, Queen, II, 543. Villard, Henry, I, 452. Vincent, Thomas M., 11, 449. Wadhams, William, II, 468, 470, 472. Wadsworth, James S., I, 172, 203, 256, 352, 407, 408, 412, 415, 417, 418, 445. Wagner, George D., I, 500, 583, 584. Waite, Alexander B., I, 39, 40. Waite, Mrs. A. B., I, 66. Waite, Elizabeth Ann, I, 35, 36, 40, 41, 66. Wakefield, Mr., II, 469. Walcutt, C. C., II, 71, 72, 74. Walker, Henry H., I, 48. Walker, J. O., I, 276, 293. Walker, W. H. T., I, 337, 559, 560, 612, 615, 619; II
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 7: the National Testimonial.—1866. (search)
four years than hold an annual meeting. Its office was closed. In February, Mr. Garrison made his second and final visit to Washington, for the sake of spending a few days with his daughter, who had recently become Mrs. Henry Jan. 3, 1866. Villard and gone there to reside. He lectured in Philadelphia to a large audience, on his way thither, and spent Feb. 3. ten days at the Capital at a peculiarly exciting time, when Feb. 17-26. the apostasy of Andrew Johnson to the party which had ele reading of a speech by that Kentucky factionist, Garrett Davis, in support of the veto. The Copperhead strength is very weak, in intellect and numbers, in both houses of Congress. Last evening, I called with Harry at Secretary Stanton's Henry Villard. residence, but he and his wife had gone out to spend the evening. O. O. Howard, Supt. Freedmen's Bureau. This forenoon, I had a brief interview with General Howard, who is, of course, full of uncertainty as to what is to be the duratio
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