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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 38 (search)
XXXVIII.
the Potomac—Ball's Bluff—Dranesville.
Scott a failure
Gen. McClellan called to Washington
brings order out of Chaos
great increase of our army
no advance
Ball's Bluff
Drauesville--all quiet
the Hutchinsons expelled
Whittier's Lyric.
the disaster at Bull Run, and the amazing imbecility betrayed in allowing several of the regiments there routed to continue their panic-stricken, disorderly flight over the bridges into Washington, whence many soldiers, and even offi irection of Maj.-Gen. McClellan, the permit given to the Hutchinson Family to sing in the camps, and their pass to cross the Potomac, are revoked, and they will not be allowed to sing to the troops.
As the then freshly uttered stanzas of John G. Whittier, which thus caused the peremptory, ignominious suppression and expulsion of the Hutchinsons, are of themselves a memorable and stirring portion of the history of our time, they may fitly — as they will most worthily — close this volume:
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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., Analytical Index. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Centennial Exhibition , (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pastorius , Francis Daniel -1681 (search)
Pastorius, Francis Daniel -1681
Author of A Particular Geographical Description of the Lately Discovered Province of Pennsylvania situated on the Frontiers of this Western World, America.
Published in Frankfort and Leipzig in 1700; translated from the original German by Lewis H. Weiss.
John G. Whittier, in an introductory note to his poem, The Pennsylvania Pilgrim, wrote:
The beginning of German emigration to America may be traced to the personal influence of William Penn, who in 1677 visited the Continent, and made the acquaintance of an intelligent and highly cultivated circle of Pietists, or Mystics, who, reviving in the seventeenth century the spiritual faith and worship of Tauler and the Friends of God in the fourteenth, gathered about the pastor Spener, and the young and beautiful Eleonora Johanna von Merlau.
In this circle originated the Frankfort Land Company, which bought of William Penn, the governor of Pennsylvania, a tract of land near the new city of Philad
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Prisoners for debt. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America . (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Washington 's inauguration, Centennial of (search)