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Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States. (search)
Previous to this political campaign very little popular interest had been manifested in the affairs of Oregon. The claims founded on Captain Gray's discovery in 1792 were allowed to sleep. Yet, even before Captain Gray's discovery, the, Columbia river had appeared to the mental vision of Thomas Jefferson. When minister to France, being convinced by the profound reasoning of his own mind that there must be a great river to convey the waters from the western slope of the Rocky mountains to the great western river. A comic play represents the Spanish Queen as ordering Columbus to cross the Atlantic and discover America, but there was philosophy and not comedy in the instructions which Jefferson gave to Ledyard to discover the Columbia river. The expedition was prevented by the jealousy of Russia. Mr. Ledyard was arrested in Siberia and forced to abandon the project. Thus Jefferson's mental vision remained unverified by physical demon stration until the discovery by Captain Gr
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical: officers of civil and military organizations. (search)
th which he served on the Brazil station. On this frigate, and the sloop Decatur he served until 1842, when he obtained transfer to the battleship Delaware, and shared the honors of her famous cruise in the Mediterranean. During part of 1844-45 he attended the naval school at Philadelphia, passing second in his class, and then returned to active service, being on duty on the Pacific coast during the Mexican war, and undergoing great perils in the wreck of the Shark off the mouth of the Columbia river, and in 1849 beginning a two years service in the coast survey. He succeeded Admiral (then lieutenant) D. D. Porter in command of the Georgia, the first subsidized mail steamer to California, and subsequently commanded various vessels in the gulf mail service. When the Georgia convention passed the ordinance of secession, a resolution was adopted declaring that the allegiance of those of its citizens in the army and navy was due to the State, and calling upon them to resign their Feder
Brig.-Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 2.1, Maryland (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical (search)
ssage, encountered a hurricane off the Atlantic coast, and for several weeks was reported lost. Lieutenant Winder and his men were, however, rescued and carried to Liverpool. For his coolness and devotion on this occasion he was promoted to captain of the Ninth regiment, March 3, 1855, being, it is believed, the youngest captain in the army. Finally reaching the Pacific coast he went into Washington Territory in 1856, and was engaged in the desperate combat of To-hots-nim-me, with the Columbia river Indians, and other engagements in 1856 and 1858 in the Spokane country, under the command of Steptoe and Wright. Early in 1861 he resigned his commission, and was commissioned, to date from March 16th, major of artillery in the Confederate army. He served at Charleston during the reduction of Fort Sumter, and was in command of the South Carolina arsenal until commissioned colonel of the Sixth regiment, South Carolina infantry, July 8, 1861. He hurried with his command to Manassas, but
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War, Index. (search)
2; 117, 1; 135-A; 149, A5; 171 Skirmishes, Nov. 24-27, 1864 105, 4 Vicinity of 115, 4 Columbia, Va. 16, 1; 74, 1; 81, 6; 100, 1; 117, 1; 135-A; 137, E5 Columbia Bridge, Va. 85, 1 Columbia Furnace, Va. 100, 1 Columbia River, Oreg. And Wash. Ter. 134, 1 Columbia River, Wash. Ter. 171 Columbia Road, Tenn. 30, 2; 72, 1; 73, 3; 115, 3; 135-B, 1; 135-C, 5 Columbus, Ga. 74, 4; 76, 1, 76, 2; 117, 1; 118, 1; 132, 7; 135-A; 148, E11; 171 Action,Columbia River, Wash. Ter. 171 Columbia Road, Tenn. 30, 2; 72, 1; 73, 3; 115, 3; 135-B, 1; 135-C, 5 Columbus, Ga. 74, 4; 76, 1, 76, 2; 117, 1; 118, 1; 132, 7; 135-A; 148, E11; 171 Action, April 16, 1865 74, 4 Defenses 132, 7 Columbus, Ky. 4, 2, 4, 3; 5, 2; 117, 1; 135-A; 153, C12; 171 Confederate works, 1862 5, 2 Columbus, Miss. 117, 1; 118, 1; 135-A; 148, A1; 171 Columbus, Mo. 161, A9, 161, D11 Columbus, Ohio 135-A; 140, C3; 171 Combahee Ferry, S. C. 26, 3; 76, 2; 117, 1; 144, E11 Combahee River, S. C. 26, 3; 91, 4; 117, 1; 135-A; 144, E12 Defenses, Nov., 1863 26, 3 Comite River, La. 156, B7 Commerce, Miss.
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Autobiography of Gen. Patton Anderson, C. S. A. (search)
d at Virgin Bay nearly a month. My wife recovered, and we embarked at San Juan del Sud the first week in June. Reached San Francisco in fourteen days, where we had to stay near a fortnight in wait for the steamer which was to take us to the Columbia river. At the expiration of this time we set sail in the steamer Columbia, bound for Astoria, Oregon. Among the passengers were my Uncle John Adair and his oldest daughter, Capt. George B. McClellan, U. S. A., Major Lamed, U. S. A., and several er citizens of Olympia the latter part of June on horseback with pack animals to carry our provisions. Our route lay over the Cascade Mountains, through what was then called the Na-chess pass, across the Takama river and valley, striking the Columbia river at Priest's rapids, where we crossed it, and taking the Grande Contee to the mouth of the Spokan river, thence up the left bank of the Columbia by Fort Colville to the mouth of Clarke's Fork, where gold was reported to have been found, which
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: description of towns and cities. (ed. George P. Rowell and company), Oregon, Umatilla, Umatilla County, Oregon (search)
Umatilla, Umatilla County, Oregon a town of 300 pop., on Columbia River, at the mouth of Umatilla River, about 180 miles E. by N. of Portland.
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: description of towns and cities. (ed. George P. Rowell and company), Oregon, Dalles, Wasco County, Oregon (search)
Dalles, Wasco County, Oregon a town of 300 pop., on Columbia River, about 90 miles E. of Portland.
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: description of towns and cities. (ed. George P. Rowell and company), Idaho, Lewiston, Nez Perce County, Idaho (search)
Lewiston, Nez Perce County, Idaho a town of 800* pop., on the Lewis Fork of Columbia River, above the mouth of Clear River, 400 miles by water from Portland, Oregon. It has an extensive trade with the mines.
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: description of towns and cities. (ed. George P. Rowell and company), Washington Territory, Vancouver, Clark County, Washington Territory (search)
Vancouver, Clark County, Washington Territory a town of 650* pop., on Columbia River, 90 miles from its mouth, and 10 miles N. of Portland, Oregon.
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 3: (search)
t the tropics. Despairing of success, he retired to a harbor in a milder latitude, within the limits of Mexico; and, having refitted his ship, and named the country New Albion, he sailed for England, through the seas of Asia. Thus was the southern part of the Oregon territory first visited by Englishmen, yet not till after a voyage of the Spanish from Acapulco, commanded by 1542. Cabrillo, a Portuguese, had traced the American continent to within two and a half degrees of the mouth of Columbia River; Forster's Northern Voyages, III. c. IV. s. II. Humboldt, Nouv Esp. II. 436, 437. Compare Viage de las Goletas Sutil y Mexicana, 34. 36. 57. while, thirteen years after the 1593 voyage of Drake, John de Fuca, a mariner from the Chap. III.} 1593 Isles of Greece, then in the employ of the viceroy of Mexico, sailed into the bay which is now known as the Gulf of Georgia, and, having for twenty days steered through its intricate windings and numerous islands, returned with a belief,
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