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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Army. (search)
0 men. During the encampment at Valley Forge a committee of Congress spent some time with Washington in arranging a plan for the reorganization of the army. By it each battalion of foot, officers included, was to consist of 582 men, arranged in nine companies; the battalion of horse and artillery to be one-third smaller. This would have given the army 60.000 men; but, in reality, it never counted more than half that number. General Greene was appointed quartermaster-general; Jeremiah Wadsworth, of Connecticut, commissary-general; Colonel Scammel, of New Hampshire, adjutant-general; and Baron de Steuben, a Prussian officer, inspector-general. To allay discontents in the army because of the great arrearages of the soldiers' pay, auditors were appointed to adjust all accounts; and each soldier who should serve until the end of the war was promised a gratuity of $80. The officers were promised half-pay for seven years from the conclusion of peace. In the spring of 1779, on the r
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Connecticut (search)
sunset. A debate upon some unimportant subject was continued until after the candles were lighted. Then the long box containing the charter was brought in and placed upon the table. A preconcerted plan to save it was now put into operation. Just as the usurper was about to grasp the box with the charter, the candles were snuffed out. When they were relighted the charter was not there, and the members were seated in proper order. The charter had been carried out in the darkness by Captain Wadsworth, and deposited in the trunk of a hollow oak-tree on the outskirts of the village (see charter Oak). Andros was compelled to content himself with dissolving the Assembly, and writing in a bold hand Finis in the journal of that body. When the Revolution of 1688 swept the Stuarts from the English throne, the charter was brought from its hiding-place, and under it the colonists of Connecticut flourished for 129 years afterwards. Under the charter given by Charles II., in 1662, Connecti
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Everett, Edward, 1794-1865 (search)
y outnumbered his own, and had scarcely made his dispositions for the action when he fell, mortally wounded, at the head of his advance. The command of the 1st Corps devolved on General Doubleday, and that of the field on General Howard, who arrived at 11.30 with Schurz's and Barlow's divisions of the l1th Corps, the latter of whom received a severe wound. Thus strengthened, the advantage of the battle was for some time on our side. The attacks of the rebels were vigorously repulsed by Wadsworth's division of the 1st Corps, and a large number of prisoners, including General Archer, were captured. At length, however, the continued reinforcement of the Confederates from the main body in the neighborhood, and by the divisions of Rhodes and Early, coming down by separate lines from Heidlersberg and taking post on our extreme right, turned the fortunes on the day. Our army, after contesting the ground for five hours, was obliged to yield to the enemy, whose force outnumbered them two
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Fletcher, Benjamin (search)
ord with Colonel Bayard and others from New York, and in the presence of the train-bands of that city, commanded by Captain Wadsworth, he directed (so says tradition) his commission to be read. Bayard began to read, when Wadsworth ordered the drumsWadsworth ordered the drums to be beaten. Silence! said Fletcher, angrily. When the reading was again begun, Drum! Drum! cried Wadsworth. Silence! again shouted Fletcher, and threatened the captain with punishment. Wadsworth stepped in front of the governor, and, withWadsworth. Silence! again shouted Fletcher, and threatened the captain with punishment. Wadsworth stepped in front of the governor, and, with his hand on the hilt of his sword, he said: If my drummers are again interrupted, I'll make sunlight shine through you. We deny and defy your authority. The cowed governor sullenly folded the paper, and with his retinue returned to New York. WiWadsworth stepped in front of the governor, and, with his hand on the hilt of his sword, he said: If my drummers are again interrupted, I'll make sunlight shine through you. We deny and defy your authority. The cowed governor sullenly folded the paper, and with his retinue returned to New York. With a pretended zeal for the cause of religion, Fletcher procured the passage of an act by the Assembly for building churches in various places, and under it the English Church and preaching in English were introduced into New York. Trinity Church w
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hampden, action at. (search)
enobscot Bay, at the head of 600 troops. The expedition landed some troops at Frankfort, which marched up the western side of the river. The flotilla, with the remainder, sailed on, and arrived near Hampden at five o'clock in the evening, when the troops and about eighty mariners were landed and bivouacked. They found the militia assembling to resist them. Meanwhile Captain Morris had taken out of the John Adams nine short 18-pounders, and mounted them on a high bank, in charge of Lieutenant Wadsworth. With the remainder of his guns, he took position on the wharf with about 200 seamen and marines, prepared to defend his crippled ship to the last extremity. She had been much damaged by striking a rock when she entered Penobscot Bay, and had run up to Hampden to avoid capture. The British detachment landed at Frankfort, and moved forward cautiously, in a dense fog, to join the other invaders, with a vanguard of riflemen. Blake had sent a body of militia to confront the invaders.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Maine. (search)
val of five British ships from New York, which force the Americans to burn their vessels and disperse......Aug. 13, 1779 Six hundred troops raised to protect the Eastern Department, between Piscataqua and St. Croix, and command given to Gen. Peleg Wadsworth, with headquarters at Thomaston......1780 Bath incorporated, the first town established by the new government......Feb. 17, 1781 General Wadsworth captured at Thomaston and imprisoned at Castine, Feb. 18; escapes......June 18, 1781 General Wadsworth captured at Thomaston and imprisoned at Castine, Feb. 18; escapes......June 18, 1781 Land office is opened at the seat of government, and State lands in the district of Maine are sold to soldiers and emigrants at $1 per acre on the navigable waters; elsewhere given, provided settlers clear sixteen acres in four years......1784 First issue of the Falmouth gazette and weekly Advertiser, the earliest newspaper established in Maine......Jan. 1, 1785 Mount Desert, confiscated from Governor Bernard, is reconfirmed in part to his son John and to French claimants......1785 C
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
ed......March 17, 1676 [The aged Roger Williams accepts a commission as captain for the defence of the town he had founded.] Captain Pierce, of Scituate, with about fifty men and twenty Indians, routed near Seekonk; his entire party cut off......March 26. 1676 Marlborough attacked and partially burned......March 26, 1676 Seekonk laid in ashes......March 28, 1676 Canonchet, sachem of the Narragansets, captured......April 9, 1676 Sudbury attacked and partially burned; Captain Wadsworth, of Milton, and his party surprised and totally defeated......April 21, 1676 Plymouth again attacked......May 11, 1676 Indians defeated at Turner's Falls, on the Connecticut, by Captain Turner, who is afterwards killed and his command partially defeated by the arrival of other Indians......May 18, 1676 Scituate threatened and partially destroyed......May 20, 1676 Edward Randolph arrives at Boston as a special messenger from the English government to make minute inquiries in
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wadsworth, Peleg 1748-1829 (search)
Wadsworth, Peleg 1748-1829 Military officer; born in Duxbury, Mass., May 6, 1748; graduated at Harvard College in 1769. As captain of minute-men, he joined the army gathering around Boston in the spring of 1775; became aide to General Ward; and afterwards adjutant-general for Massachusetts. He was in the battle of Long Island: and in 1777 was made brigadiergeneral of militia, serving, in 1779, as second in command in the Penobscot expedition, where he was taken prisoner. In February, 1781, he was captured and confined in the fort at Castine, whence he escaped in June. After the war he engaged in business in Portland and in surveying, and in 1792 he was elected a State Senator. From 1792 to 1806 he was a member of Congress. He died in Hiram, Me., Nov. 18, 1829.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 2: birth, childhood, and youth (search)
ty, England, in 1651, and came in early life to this country, where he engaged in mercantile pursuits. Thus much for the paternal ancestry. To turn to the spindle side, Mr. Longfellow's mother was Zilpah Wadsworth, eldest daughter of General Peleg Wadsworth, who was the son of Deacon Peleg Wadsworth, of Duxbury, Mass., and was the fifth in descent from Christopher Wadsworth, who came from England and settled in that town before 1632. The Peleg Wadsworth of military fame was born at DuxburyDeacon Peleg Wadsworth, of Duxbury, Mass., and was the fifth in descent from Christopher Wadsworth, who came from England and settled in that town before 1632. The Peleg Wadsworth of military fame was born at Duxbury, and graduated from Harvard in 1769; he afterward taught school at Plymouth, and married Elizabeth Bartlett of that town; he then took part in the Revolution as captain of a company of minutemen, and rose to a major-general's command, serving chiefly on the eastern frontier. He was captured, was imprisoned, escaped, and had many stirring adventures. When the war was over he purchased from the State no less than 7500 acres of wild land, and spent the rest of his life at Hiram, Maine, represent
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Appendix I: Genealogy (search)
rongly attached, he was sent as a representative to the Massachusetts legislature. In 1822 he was elected representative to Congress, which office he held for one term. In 1828 he received the degree of Ll. D. from Bowdoin College, of which he was a Trustee for nineteen years. In 1834 he was elected President of the Maine Historical Society. He died in 1849, highly respected for his integrity, public spirit, hospitality, and generosity. In 1804 he had married Zilpah, daughter of General Peleg Wadsworth, of Portland. Of their eight children, Henry Wadsworth was the second. He was named for his mother's brother, a gallant young lieutenant in the Navy, who on the night of September 4, 1804, gave his life before Tripoli in the war with Algiers. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born on the 27th February, 1807; graduated at Bowdoin College in 1825; in 1829 was appointed Professor of Modern Languages in the same college; was married in 1831 to Mary Storer Potter (daughter of Barrett Po
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