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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
entucky to instigate an expedition against the Spanish in Louisiana......Nov. 1, 1793 Citizens of Kentucky meet at Lexington and pass resolutions in reference to free navigation of the Mississippi......May 24, 1794 Thomas Powers sent by Carondelet, Spanish governor of Louisiana, to treat with the people of Kentucky for the navigation of the Mississippi......July, 1795 Daniel Boone moves to the west of the Mississippi River......1795 Lexington public library established (400 volumes)......1795 First charter of Newport adopted......Dec. 14, 1795 Thomas Powers again sent by Carondelet to Kentucky with the outline of a provisional treaty and a letter to Judge Sebastian to concert a separation of Kentucky from the Union......July 12, 1797 Henry Clay removes from Virginia and opens a law office in Lexington......November, 1797 Endowment by the legislature of five educational academies in Kentucky, each with 6,000 acres of land......Feb. 10, 1798 John Fitch, inven
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Louisiana, (search)
New Orleans, and a few of them open the first regular theatre in the city......1791 Don Francois Louis Hector, Baron de Carondelet, succeeds Miro as governor and intendant of Louisiana......January, 1792 Publication of the first newspaper in ety of French Jacobins in Philadelphia addresses an inflammatory circular to the French in Louisiana......1794 Canal Carondelet, from New Orleans to Lake Pontchartrain, projected, begun, and abandoned by Governor Perier in 1727; recommenced and co Ellicott, meet at Natchez to define the boundary between Spanish and United States possessions......Feb. 24, 1797 Carondelet refuses to surrender the posts on the Mississippi, hoping for a separation of the western United States from the eastern......1797 Carondelet appointed governor of the Mexican provinces; Don Manuel Gayoso de Lemos succeeds in Louisiana......Aug. 1, 1797 Don Juan Ventura Morales, Spanish intendant, refuses a place of deposit to United States citizens in New Orle
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Michigan, (search)
Detroit to endeavor to obtain from the United States government, by bribing members of Congress, a pre-emption right to nearly 20,000,000 acres of land in Michigan, but are exposed and receive a public reprimand......1795 Forts Mackinac (Mackinaw) and Detroit evacuated by the British; Detroit garrisoned by a detachment of General Wayne's army, and Captain Porter first raises the United States flag upon the soil of Michigan......June 11, 1796 Thomas Powers, agent for the Spanish Governor Carondelet, arrives at Detroit to endeavor to interest General Wilkinson in the Spanish intrigues in the West......Aug. 24, 1797 Northwestern Territory assumes the second grade of territorial government; Michigan forms the single county of Wayne, and sends one representative to the General Assembly at Chillicothe. His election was the first held in Michigan under United States rule......1798 Act of Congress approved establishing Indiana Territory, in which Michigan is partially included..
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865, Chapter 23: (search)
kney, who now commanded the Confederate gunboats, co-operated in the attack, as it was his plain duty to do. Two of the enemy's gunboats, the Mound City and the Carondelet, were seriously crippled, and compelled to seek safety in shoal water. The mortar-boats—of which one was reported sunk—were towed out of range. This is proowas met at sunrise, in Old River, ten miles from the Federal anchorage, by the United States iron-clad Carondelet, the gunboat Tyler, and the ram Monarch. The Carondelet alone was superior in guns, armor, and speed to the Arkansas. Captain Brown promptly assailed this advance squadron, and, after an hour of close combat, disabled and silenced the iron-clad and drove the other two vessels to the shelter of the fleets, in the main river. Losing no time with the disabled Carondelet, the Confederate iron-clad proceeded down stream, and attacked the combined fleet of more than twenty men-of-war. She pushed through their double line of heavy ships, rams, mor
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), I. (search)
iron-clads employed by the United States on the Western rivers during the late civil war were mainly river steamers, the sides above the water-line placed at an Wrought-iron bridges. angle of about 30°, and plated with 2 to 4 inches of iron, backed with 3 feet of oak. They carried 4 to 16 guns, and some of them were made to float in 2 1/2 feet of water. They were calculated to fight bow on, and were practically invulnerable to 100-pound shot when in this position. The Benton, Exsex, Carondelet, Lexington, and a large number of others, were of this construction. Toward the latter part of the war a number of monitors were built for service on the Mississippi. A class of vessels plated with 3/4-inch iron were jocularly called tin-clads. Their armor was a protection against rifle-balls, but was easily penetrated by shells from the lightest field-pieces. Improvised iron-clads, consisting of river steamers plated with railroad-iron, were used by both parties on the Mississippi
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, Missouri Volunteers. (search)
lumbus, Texas, August 31, and discharged at St. Louis, Mo., September 11, 1865. Regiment lost during service 2 Officers and 10 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 280 Enlisted men by disease. Total 293. 30th Missouri Regiment Enrolled Militia Infantry. At Trenton, Grundy County, Mo. 30th Missouri Regiment Provisional Enrolled Militia Infantry. Duty in 7th Military District, North Missouri. 31st Missouri Regiment Infantry. Organized at St. Louis, Carondelet and Ironton, Mo., August 11 to October 7, 1862. Attached to Cape Girardeau, District of Missouri, Dept. of Missouri, to December, 1862. 1st Brigade, 11th Division, Right Wing 13th Army Corps (Old), Dept. of the Tennessee, December, 1862. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, Sherman's Yazoo Expedition, to January, 1863. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 15th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, to December, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 15th Army Corps, to April, 1864. 3rd Brigade, 1st Di
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, I. List of officers from Massachusetts in United States Navy, 1861 to 1865. (search)
Atlantic.Oct. 30, 1865.Hon. discharged.Actg. 3d Asst. Engr. Beattle, Lucius H.,Me.Mass.Mass.Aug. 1,‘61.Actg. Master.Sabine; Pequot.North Atlantic.Dec. 7/65.Hon. discharged.Actg. Master. Beaufort, Francis,-Mass.Mass.Mar. 8, 1852.Actg. Gunner.Carondelet.Mississippi.June 5, 1863.Resigned.Actg. Gunner. Beck, Alfred M.,--Mass.Feb. 4, 1863.Actg. Master's Mate.Mattabessett.North Atlantic.Oct. 9, 1863.Resigned.Actg. Master's Mate Dec. 31, 1863.Actg. Master's Mate.July 25, 1865.Hon. discharged.Actgs.Aug. 22, 1862.Actg. Ensign.Nahant.North Atlantic.Aug. 18, 1863.Revoked.Actg. Ensign. Sept. 19, 1864.Actg. Ensign.Mar. 17, 1865.Resigned.Actg. Ensign. Clark, Charles P., Credit, Cambridge.N. H.Mass.Mass.Oct. 3, 1862.Actg. Ensign.Sea Bird; Carondelet.East Gulf; Mississippi.Nov. 20, 1865.Hon. discharged.Actg. Vol. Lieut. July 18, 1863.Actg. Master. Aug. 9, 1864.Actg. Vol. Lieut. Clark, David S.,Me.Mass.Mass.Mar. 5, 1864.Actg. 3d Asst. Engr.-Mississippi.Nov. 4, 1865.Hon. discharged.Actg
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 2: (search)
orks. The forces were entirely inadequate for its defense, and General Tilghman made the best defense possible. He maintained it long enough to enable Colonel Heiman to escape with the forces, and sacrificed himself and Captain Taylor's company of Tennesseeans. General Grant invested Fort Donelson on the 12th of February, 1862, with 15,000 troops, reinforced that evening by six regiments of infantry and Flag-Officer Foote's fleet of four ironclad and two wooden gunboats—the St. Louis, Carondelet, Louisville, Pittsburg, Tyler and Conestoga. Reinforcements continued to arrive. Wallace's division was brought over from Fort Henry, 10,000 men were sent by General Buell, and the Confederate lines were enveloped by 24,000 troops. General Buckner states, in his report, that at the close of the attack Grant's forces exceeded 50,000. Brig.-Gen. John B. Floyd, of Virginia, commanded the Confederate forces, amounting to 12,000 men. General Pillow commanded the left, General Buckner the ri
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The story of the Arkansas. (search)
it; that is to say, to quote Gwin, he fled ingloriously. This left us with the Tyler, now getting pretty sick, and the Carondelet to deal with. It was, I think, somewhere about this stage of the fight that a bolt entered the pilot-house and mortahere was any hope; but he finally took to his heels, badly crippled, and went after the mustang. What Walke did in the Carondelet, in the first part of the engagement, I am not competent to say, as I was mounting my gun, but I think he was hacked quate, when I came on the scene again (not more than ten minutes had elapsed from the first gun), and ran out my gun, the Carondelet was right ahead of us, distant about one hundred yards, and paddling down stream for dear life. Her armor had been pierry. These fellows we had beaten were but skirmishers of a main army. Consequently, we pushed down the river, and the Carondelet sank on a sand-bar on the right side. I have been very explicit in regard to this battle with the Caronde-let, inasm
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Confederate States Navy and a brief history of what became of it. [from the Richmond, Va. Times December 30, 1900.] (search)
gun-boat. Sunk by Confederate batteries at Plymouth, April 18, 1864, raised by the Confederates and recaptured by the Federals in Albemarle Sound, May 5, 1864. Caleb Cushing—United States revenue cutter, two guns. Captured by the Confederate schooner Archer in Portland harbor, June 27, 1863, and set on fire and abandoned to prevent recapture. Calhoun—Small side-wheel river steamer. Bought at New Orleans, 1861, and burned by the Confederates after the fall of that city in 1862. Carondelet—Side-wheel river steamer. Bought at New Orleans in 1861 and mounted with six guns. Burned on Lake Pontchartrain in 1862 to prevent capture. Columbia—Iron-clad, six guns. Built at Charleston, 1864. Caught on a sunken wreck there and broken in two by the falling tide. Caswell—Wooden side-wheel tender. Burned by the Confederates at the fall of Wilmington, 1865. Charleston—Iron-clad, six guns. Built in 1863 at Charleston and destroyed by the Confederates at the evacuation
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