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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, Tennessee Volunteers . (search)
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, Wisconsin Volunteers . (search)
L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion, chapter 3.58 (search)
The destruction of the Albemarle.
The rebel iron-clad ram, the Albemarle, whose contest with and discomfiture by the Sassacus, in May, 1864, has been previously described in this volume, and which had become a formidable obstruction to the occupation of the North Carolina sounds by the Union forces, finally met her fate in October of the same year.
During the previous summer, Lieutenant W. B. Cushing, commanding the Monticello, one of the sixteen vessels engaged in watching the ram, conceived the plan of destroying their antagonist by means of a torpedo.
Upon submitting the plan to Rear-Admiral Lee and the Navy Department, he was detached from his vessel, and sent to New York to provide the articles necessary for his purpose, and these preparations having been at last completed, he returned again to the scene of action.
His plan was to affix his newly-contrived torpedo apparatus to one of the picket launches-little steamers not larger than a seventy-four's launch, but fitted w
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters, Chapter 5 : the Knickerbocker group (search)
Chapter 5: the Knickerbocker group
The Fourth of July orator for 1826 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was Edward Everett.
Although only thirty-two he was already a distinguished speaker.
In the course of his oration he apostrophized John Adams and Thomas Jefferson as venerable survivors of that momentous day, fifty years earlier, which had witnessed our Declaration of Independence.
But even as Everett was speaking, the aged author of the Declaration breathed his last at Monticello, and in the afternoon of that same day Adams died also, murmuring, it is said, with his latest breath, and as if with the whimsical obstinacy of an old man who hated to be beaten by his ancient rival, Thomas Jefferson still lives.
But Jefferson was already gone.
On the first of August, Everett commemorated the career of the two Revolutionary leaders, and on the following day a greater than Everett, Daniel Webster, pronounced the famous eulogy in Faneuil Hall.
Never were the thoughts and emotions o
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.), Book III (continued) (search)
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 2
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 17
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 1865
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 16 (search)