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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Minnesota, (search)
2, 1875 Lucius F. Hubbard, RepelectedNov. 1881 Andrew R. McGill, RepelectedNov. 2, 1886 William R. Merriam, Repelected Nov. 1888 William R. Merriam, Repterm beginsJan. 1891 Knute Nelson, Repterm begins Jan. 1893 Knute Nelson, Repterm begins Jan. 1, 1895 David M. Clough term begins Jan. 24, 1895 John Lindterm begins Jan. 1, 1899 Samuel R. Van Sant.term beginsJan. 1, 1901 United States Senators Name. No. of Congress. Term. James M. Rice 35th to 37th 1858 to 1863 William W. Phelps 35th 1858 to 1859 Morton S. Wilkinson 36th to 38th 1859 to 1865 Alexander Ramsey 38th 1863 Daniel S. Norton 39th to 41st 1865 to 1870 William Windom 41st to 45th 1870 to 1881 Ozora P. Stearns 41st to 43d 1871 to 1875 Samuel J. R. McMillan 44th to 49th 1875 to 1887 Dwight M. Sabin 47th to 49th 1881 to 1887 Cushman K. Davis 50th to 56th 1887 to 1900 William D. Washburn 51st to 54th 1889 to 1895 Knute Nelson 54th to — 1895 to — Moses E. Clapp 56th to — 1900 to — Mills at Minn
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mobile, Ala. (search)
pon, the importance to the United States of possessing Mobile was very apparent. In March General Wilkinson, in command of the United States troops in the Southwest, was ordered to take possession of it. Wilkinson sent Commodore Shaw, with gunboats, to occupy Mobile Bay and cut off communications with Pensacola. Lieutenant-Colonel Bowyer, then with troops at Fort Stoddart, was ordered to be prepared to march on Mobile at a moment's notice for the purpose of investing the fort there. Wilkinson left Mobile March 29 on the sloop Alligator, and, after a perilous voyage, reached Petit Coquille, when he sent a courier with orders to Bowyer to march immediately. Wilkinson's troops arrived in Mobile Bay April 12, landed the next morning, and at noon 600 men appeared before Fort CharlottePensacola, and the Americans took possession. Placing nine cannon in battery on Mobile Point, Wilkinson marched to the Perdido. There he began the erection of a fort, but the place was soon abandon
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Orleans. (search)
le storm of round and grape shot that scattered dead men all around him. One of the balls passed through the general's thigh, killing his horse under him. Pakenham was caught in the arms of his faithful aid, Captain McDougall. He was conveyed to the rear in a dying condition, and expired in the arms of McDougall under a live-oak-tree. General Gibbs was also mortally wounded, and died the next day. Keane, shot in the neck, was compelled to leave the field, and the command devolved on Major Wilkinson, the officer of highest grade in the saddle. His discomfited troops fell back, and the whole army fled in disorder. While these events were occurring on the right, nearly 1,000 men under the active Colonel Rennie had pushed rapidly forward near the river in two columns, and, driving in the American pickets, took possession of the unfinished redoubt on Jackson's extreme right. They did not hold it long. Patterson's battery greatly annoyed Rennie's column on its march. As he scaled
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Niagara, Fort (search)
patients—fourteen wounded, and 344 made prisoners. The British loss was six men killed, and Colonel Murray, three men, and a Fort Niagara, from form George, in 1812. surgeon wounded. The British fired a signal-cannon, announcing their success, which put in motion a detachment of regulars and Indians at Queenston for further work of destruction. They crossed the river to Lewiston, and plundered and laid waste the whole New York frontier to Buffalo. In 1814, on the retirement of General Wilkinson, General Brown, who had been promoted to major-general, became commander-in-chief of the Northern Department. He had left French Mills (Feb. 15), on the Salmon River, where the army had wintered, with most of the troops there (2,000 in number), and on reaching Sackett's Harbor received an order from the Secretary of War to march with them to the Niagara frontier, to which line Generals Scott and Ripley had already gone. The object was to recover Fort Niagara, restrain British moveme