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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4	28	0	Browse	Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler	15	1	Browse	Search
The Daily Dispatch: December 28, 1861., [Electronic resource]	6	0	Browse	Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company)	4	0	Browse	Search
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.)	4	0	Browse	Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing)	3	1	Browse	Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Naval militia, (search)

rpedoes against any hostile fleet in our waters. In 1900 the naval militia was organized in nineteen States and in the District of Columbia, as follows: California, Capt. N. T. James; Connecticut, Corn. Fred L. Averill; District of Columbia, Com. Robert P. Hains; Florida, Com. W. Fitzgerald; Georgia, Com. F. D. Aiken; Illinois, Capt. Albert A. Michelson; Louisiana, Com. J. W. Bostick; Maryland, Com. I. E. Emerson; Maine, Lieut. H. M. Bigelow; Massachusetts, Capt. W. E. McKay; Michigan, Com. G. Wilkes; New Jersey, Battalion of the East, Com. W. Irving; Battalion of the West, Com. J. B. Potter; New York, Capt. J. W. Miller; North Carolina, Com. F. M. Morse; Ohio, Lieut.-Com. W. G. Welbon, commanding 1st Battalion, Lieut.-Com. W. E. Wirt, commanding 2d Battalion; Oregon, Lieut.-Com. R. E. Davis; Pennsylvania, Capt. J. S. United States naval Academy, Annapolis, Md.—officers' row. Muckle; Rhode Island, Com. W. M. Little; South Carolina, Com. R. H. Pinckney; Virginia, Com. H. L. Cannon.

Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wilkes, George 1820-1885 (search)

Wilkes, George 1820-1885 Journalist; born in New York City in 1820; became co-editor of the Spirit of the times in New York, and afterwards its proprietor; and received the grand cross of the Order of St. Stanislas from the Russian Emperor in 1870 for suggesting an overland railroad to China. His publications include History of California, Geographical and political, and Europe in a hurry. He died in New York City, Sept. 23, 1885.

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