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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 32 2 Browse Search
James Barnes, author of David G. Farragut, Naval Actions of 1812, Yank ee Ships and Yankee Sailors, Commodore Bainbridge , The Blockaders, and other naval and historical works, The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 6: The Navy. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 12 4 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Confederate privateers (search)
resolved (February, 1862) to prosecute the war with vigor. Before the close of July following they had more than twenty vessels afloat as privateers to depredate upon American commerce, and had destroyed millions of dollars' worth of property. At the first, the most formidable of these were the Nashville and Sumter. The former was a sidewheel steamer, carried a crew of eighty men, and was armed with two long 12-pounder rifled cannon. She was destroyed (Feb. 28, 1862) by the Montauk, Captain Worden, in the Ogeechee River. The career of the Sumter was also short, but much more active and destructive. She had a crew of sixty-five men and twenty-five marines, and was heavily armed. She had run the blockade at the mouth of the Mississippi River (Jan. 30, 1861), ran among the West India islands, making many prizes of vessels bearing the American flag, and became the terror of the Privateer ship Sumter. Confederate naval commission. American merchant service, skilfully eluding N
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Greene, Samuel Dana 1839-1884 (search)
Greene, Samuel Dana 1839-1884 Naval officer; born in Cumberland, Md., Feb. 11, 1839; graduated at the United States Naval Academy in 1859. When the Civil War broke out he was assigned to the ironclad Monitor, and during her action with the Merrimac he directed every shot that was fired, until he took command in place of Lieutenant Worden, who had been wounded. He served on the Monitor till she sank near Cape Hatteras. He was promoted commander in 1872. He died in Portsmouth Navy-yard, N. H., Dec. 11, 1884.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kelly, James Edward 1855- (search)
lptor of General Deven and the 6th New York Cavalry and the Buford Monument. In 1891 he produced the colossal figure, The call to arms, for the Soldiers' Monument at Troy, N. Y. In 1895 he furnished the Long Island panel, for the Sons of the Revolution; in 1897 the memorial of the battle of Harlem Heights on the grounds of Columbia University, also for the Sons of the Revolution; and in 1901 was engaged on a monument to commemorate the defence of New Haven, for the Sons of the American Revolution. Besides these works he has produced heads of the principal commanders of the Civil War from life, including Generals Grant. Sheridan, Sherman, Hancock. Stanley, Pleasonton, etc.; a portrait bust of Admiral Worden; busts and statuettes from life of Admiral Dewey, Rear-Admiral Sampson, and Lieutenant Hobson; and heads from life of the captains of Dewey's and Sampson's fleets, and of the principal army officers of the Spanish-American War, and an equestrian statue of Gen. Fitz-John Porter.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Monitor and
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chor, propeller, and rudder. The whole was built of 3-inch iron, and was very buoyant. Its exposed parts were guarded by a wall of white oak, 30 inches in thickness, on which was laid iron armor 6 inches in thickness. A shot to strike the lower hull would have to pass through 25 feet of water, and then strike an inclined plane of iron at an angle of about 10°. The deck was well armed also. Such was the strange craft that entered Hampton Roads from the sea, under the command of Lieut. John L. Worden (q. v.), unheralded and unknown, at a little past midnight, March 9, on its trial trip. It had been named Monitor. It had been towed to the Roads by steamers, outriding a tremendous gale. Worden reported to the flag-officer of the fleet in the Roads, and was ordered to aid the Minnesota in the expected encounter with the Merrimac in the morning. It was a bright Sabbath morning. Before sunrise the dreaded Merrimac and her company came down from Norfolk. The stern guns of the Min
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pickens, Fort (search)
allowing fraternal blood to flow. On the 18th Chase demanded the surrender of the fort, and it was refused. Then began the siege. When President Lincoln's administration came into power (March 4, 1861) a new line of policy was adopted. The government resolved to reinforce with men and supplies both Sumter and Pickens. Between April 6 and 9 the steamers Atlantic and Illinois and the United States steam frigate Powhatan left New York for Fort Pickens with troops and supplies. Lieut. John L. Worden (q. v.) was sent by land with an order to Captain Adams, of the Sabine, then in command of a little squadron off Port Pickens, to throw reinforcements into that work at once. Braxton Bragg was then in command of all the Confederate forces in the vicinity, with the commission of brigadier-general; and Captain Ingraham, late of the United States navy, was in command of the navy-yard near Pensacola. Bragg had arranged with a sergeant of the garrison to betray the fort on the night of
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, (search)
1897 Bicentennial jubilee of Trinity Church, N. Y., celebrated......May 6, 1897 Governor Black signs the so-called starchless civil service bill......May 15, 1897 Demolition of Tombs prison, New York City, started......May 25, 1897 Battle monument at West Point unveiled with ceremonies......May 31, 1897 Immigrant buildings on Ellis Island burned......June 15, 1897 Charles Anderson Dana, journalist, dies near Glen Cove, aged seventy-eight years......Oct. 17, 1897 John Lorimer Worden, naval officer, born at Sing Sing, 1818, dies at Washington, D. C.......Oct. 18, 1897 Nineteen lives lost by New York Central passenger train running into the river at Garrisons, N. Y.......Oct. 24, 1897 Henry George, political economist, born at Philadelphia, 1839, dies at New York......Oct. 29, 1897 Robert Van Wyck, Democrat, elected first mayor of Greater New York......Nov. 2, 1897 Mayor signs resolution turning over the Hall of Records to the National Historical Societ
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Virginia, (search)
ct. 21, 1861 West Virginia votes for a separation from Virginia; vote substantially unanimous......Oct. 24, 1861 Confederate armies in Virginia reorganized under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston......Nov. 9, 1861 Union troops occupy Big Bethel......Jan. 3, 1862 At Hampton Roads the Confederate ram Merrimac, Capt. Franklin Buchanan, sinks the Federal ship Cumberland, captures the Congress, and forces the Minnesota aground......March 8, 1862 Battle between the Merrimac and Monitor, Lieutenant Worden commander; Merrimac retires......March 9, 1862 Manassas Junction evacuated by the Confederates......March 10, 1862 Battle of Winchester, or Kernstown, Gen. James Shields commanding Federal forces; Gen. Stonewall Jackson, Confederates; Confederates retire......March 23, 1862 Peninsular campaign in Virginia begun......March 23, 1862 Norfolk reoccupied by Union troops......May 11, 1862 Confederates under Stonewall Jackson drive General Banks from Winchester......May 25, 186
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Worcester, Dean Conant 1866- (search)
Worcester, Dean Conant 1866- Zoologist; born in Thetford, Vt., Oct. 1, 1866; graduated at the University of Michigan in 1889; accompanied the Steere Scientific Expedition to the Philippine Islands in 1887-88; conducted a scientific expedition with a single companion to the same islands in 1890-93; and became Professor of Zoology and curator of the Zoological Museum at the University of Michigan in 1895. He was appointed one of the Unit- John Lorimer Worden. ed States commissioners to the Philippines in January, 1899. His publications include The Philippine Islands and their people; and articles on the mammals and birds of the Philippines.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Worden, John Lorimer 1818-1897 (search)
Worden, John Lorimer 1818-1897 Naval officer; born in Mount Pleasant, Westchester co., N. Y., March 12, 1 immediately wrote a pass, and, as he handed it to Worden, remarked, I suppose you have despatches for Captain Adams? Worden replied, I have no written ones, but I have a verbal communication to make to him from the Nae, a flag-oftruce vessel lying in Pensacola Harbor, Worden was conveyed to the Sabine, arriving there about non time to save it from the effects of treachery. Worden immediately returned to Pensacola and started for W found he had committed a great blunder in allowing Worden to go to the Sabine (a spy having informed him of tred to shield his own stupidity by falsely accusing Worden of having practised falsehood and deception in gaination he telegraphed to Montgomery, and recommended Worden's arrest. It was done a short distance below Montged for Lieutenant Sharpe, of the Confederate navy. Worden was the first prisoner of war held by the Confedera