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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 14: 1846-1847: Aet. 39-40. (search)
gation. He died in Boston, where they are now erecting a magnificent monument to his memory. Mr. Peirce, professor at Cambridge, is considered here the equal of our great mathematicians. It is not for me, who cannot do a sum in addition, to pretend to a judgment in the matter. Though Agassiz was no mathematician, and Peirce no naturalist, they soon found that their intellectual aims were the same, and they became very close friends. You are familiar, no doubt, with the works of Captain Wilkes and the report of his journey around the world. His charts are much praised. The charts of the coasts and harbors of the United States, made under the direction of Dr. Bache and published at government expense, are admirable. The reports of Captain Fremont concerning his travels are also most interesting and instructive; to botanists especially so, on account of the scientific notes accompanying them. I will not speak at length of my own work, —my letter is already too long. Duri
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Beauregard's report of the battle of Drury's Bluff. (search)
ever heard anything so sweet as her singing. December 19th.—The morning papers are fraught with interest. John Bull is aroused at the outrage committed by Captain Wilkes in seizing our Commissioners on board a British ship, and if they are not given up immediately England will break the Southern blockade, open trade with the Cved in the rain at this pretty and thriving city, and as we had only a night there could see very little of it; but Mr. Jno. E. Elgin, General F. H. Robertson, Mayor Wilkes and their committee, met us at the depot, and escorted us to very comfortable quarters at the Pacific Hotel, and showed us every necessary attention. We had lwithstanding the bad weather and muddy streets there was a fine audience, among them fifty young ladies of the Waco University and a number of other ladies. Mayor Wilkes, in appropriate terms introduced the General who was frequently applauded by the appreciative audience. Then followed the banquet where the feast of good th
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Diary of Rev. J. G. Law. (search)
s morning, I was overjoyed to see in the morning papers the announcement that England had demanded the surrender of Mason and Slidell. Attended a concert at the Theatre this evening. The attendance was the largest and most select that I have ever seen in Memphis. Miss Bang, the Jenny Lind of America, was the attraction. I have never heard anything so sweet as her singing. December 19th.—The morning papers are fraught with interest. John Bull is aroused at the outrage committed by Captain Wilkes in seizing our Commissioners on board a British ship, and if they are not given up immediately England will break the Southern blockade, open trade with the Confederate States, and blockade the Northern ports. Behold how brightly breaks the morning! December 21st.—There are few cases of interest in the hospital. Patients come in slowly, and we are discharging them rapidly. On Monday the Southern Mothers and the Overton are to be merged into one hospital, the Confederate Government
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Editorial Paragraphs. (search)
the next morning we had to bid them adieu and take the cars for Waco. We arrived in the rain at this pretty and thriving city, and as we had only a night there could see very little of it; but Mr. Jno. E. Elgin, General F. H. Robertson, Mayor Wilkes and their committee, met us at the depot, and escorted us to very comfortable quarters at the Pacific Hotel, and showed us every necessary attention. We had lost our good friend, Captain Minnigerode, at Austin, he being compelled by business te. At night General Lee lectured, under the auspices of the Waco Lyceum, and notwithstanding the bad weather and muddy streets there was a fine audience, among them fifty young ladies of the Waco University and a number of other ladies. Mayor Wilkes, in appropriate terms introduced the General who was frequently applauded by the appreciative audience. Then followed the banquet where the feast of good things was accompanied by appropriate toasts, and speaking. Corsicana was our ne
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.37 (search)
killed in seven days fight, first death in the company; Mason, Tobe, killed at Gettysburg; Mason, Alpheus, dead; Mason, Big Daniel, dead; Mason, Hillery, dead; Morton John A.; Overstreet, W. R., killed at Hutchin's Run; Pugh, Presley A.; Pryor, Samuel, discharged; Ramsey, Samuel W., killed at Hutchin's Run; Rash, James A.; Smith. James L., wounded at Second Battle of Manassas; Smith, John M., died 1862; Smith, W. G., dead; Smith, Edward, dead; Smith, William Henry; Smith, Lea, killed at Gettysburg; Sharpe, Josiah; Steele, Pete, wounded at Fort Donelson and Gettysburg; St. John, Alexander, killed at Gettysburg; Thomas, Rice, killed at Fort Donelson, first man killed in the company; Trent, Booker, died 1862; Vaughan, Merritt, died 1862; Williams, W. W., died since the war; Williams, Charles B., died since the war; Williams, Thomas, died during the war, at Gettysburg; Williams, C. W.; Williams, A. L. P., gallant color-bearer at Gettysburg, wounded, and captured there; Wilkes, B. Calvin.
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 25. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Hon. James Murray Mason, of Mason & Slidell fame. (search)
Europe. On the passage out in October, 1861, he and Mr. Slidell arrived at Havanna, sailed thence on the royal mail steamer Trent, for England, and on the 8th of November, the Trent was boarded by the United States war steamer San Jacinto, Captain Wilkes in command, and the Confederate Commissioners were captured as prisoners of war, and taken from the British deck to Boston. This was the first time that under any such pretext the British flag was ever violated on the high seas, under Britaiates, from Independence day down to that time had fought against that pretension and in favor of Free Trade and Sailor's rights, against Great Britain, and had at last by treaty gained the abandonment of any such claim on the part of England, Captain Wilkes attempted to set it up and enforce it on the part of the United States against the flag of England herself. The prisoners were sent to Fort Warren, but were quickly, though not gracefully surrendered on the peremptory demand of Great Britain
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Memoir of Jane Claudia Johnson. (search)
had he lived he would have added increased lustre to our North Carolina cavalry. I want to identify him in closer relation in this way, and, therefore, I state that one of his sisters was the mother of Messrs. R. N. and James Gordon Hackett, of Wilkes. Wilkes, was rather famous for such cavalrymen—Colonel W. H. H. Cowles was born, and now lives there. The attack on Kennon's Landing was the most useless sacrifice of time and men and horses made during the war. The brigade was camped May 23dWilkes, was rather famous for such cavalrymen—Colonel W. H. H. Cowles was born, and now lives there. The attack on Kennon's Landing was the most useless sacrifice of time and men and horses made during the war. The brigade was camped May 23d near Hanover Junction, recuperating a little from the terrible ride and fighting of the Sheridan raid. Late that afternoon an order came to each captain of our regiment for a detail of picked men for specially dangerous work. The Fifth regiment furnished about 225 men and officers, under command of Major Mc-Neill. There were surely not over 1,000 men on the expedition from our brigade. Wilson's wharf was a fortified post of great natural and artificial strentgth on the James river, far belo
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Brook Church fight, and something about the Fifth North Carolina cavalry. (search)
had he lived he would have added increased lustre to our North Carolina cavalry. I want to identify him in closer relation in this way, and, therefore, I state that one of his sisters was the mother of Messrs. R. N. and James Gordon Hackett, of Wilkes. Wilkes, was rather famous for such cavalrymen—Colonel W. H. H. Cowles was born, and now lives there. The attack on Kennon's Landing was the most useless sacrifice of time and men and horses made during the war. The brigade was camped May 23dWilkes, was rather famous for such cavalrymen—Colonel W. H. H. Cowles was born, and now lives there. The attack on Kennon's Landing was the most useless sacrifice of time and men and horses made during the war. The brigade was camped May 23d near Hanover Junction, recuperating a little from the terrible ride and fighting of the Sheridan raid. Late that afternoon an order came to each captain of our regiment for a detail of picked men for specially dangerous work. The Fifth regiment furnished about 225 men and officers, under command of Major Mc-Neill. There were surely not over 1,000 men on the expedition from our brigade. Wilson's wharf was a fortified post of great natural and artificial strentgth on the James river, far belo
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 10 (search)
(1 yr.).Ino. 261Frederick Mark22Aug. 5, 1862 (1 yr.).Ino. 262Patrick McCann19Aug. 1, 1862 (1 yr.).Ino. 263James McLeod26Aug. 6, 1862 (1 yr.).Ino. 264Daniel Meyall23Aug. 4, 1862 (1 yr.). 265John F. Moody22July 29, 1862 (1 yr.).Housatonic. 266James MooreAug. 23, 1864 (1 yr.). 267Joshua Moore28Aug. 4, 1862 (1 yr.).Ino. 268Daniel Mulhiven21Aug. 1, 1862 (1 yr.). 269Frank Mulreay27Aug. 2, 1862 (1 yr.).Ino. 270Thomas Munday22Aug. 1, 1862 (1 yr.).Ino. 271John Murphy20Aug. 5, 1862 (1 yr.).Wilkes's Squad. 272Charles Murray21Aug. 6, 1862 (1 yr.). 273Dau. Sidley21Jan. 12, 1864.Receiv. Ship Ohio. 274John Silloway, landsman38Jan. 7, 1864.Receiv. Ship Ohio. 276Anthony Smalley, act.ensignDec. 1, 1863. 276Edward K. Smith Jr., act.ensignDec. 2, 1863. 277Henry Smitht23June 26, 1864 (3 yrs.).E. G. Squad. 278Michael J. Smith act.ensignDec. 28, 1863. 279Charles T. Somes, act. mast.mateOct. 26, 1862. 280Thomas Stephens, act. mast.mateNov. 4, 1861. 281Charles A. Stewart, acting master
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the first autumn. (search)
search of the Sumter. She was commanded by Captain Wilkes, a navigator known by his discoveries in sility with which they had eluded the blockade, Wilkes thought he would make amends for the negligenc the English packet did not obey that summons, Wilkes sent after her a shell, which burst in front o the first cannon-shot had been fired Captain Wilkes set the Trent free and proceeded with his prisival flag overrode every other consideration. Wilkes, after taking his prisoners to Fort Warren, ington, written immediately after the arrival of Wilkes, in which might have been seen the sure pledgeThe point of law so irrelevantly raised by Captain Wilkes may be summed up in a few words. From the, at the beginning of the present century, Captain Wilkes endeavored to justify the arrest of the Co it should take advantage of the fact that Captain Wilkes had acted without instructions, to disavowd at length all the causes which justified Captain Wilkes, according to the traditional policy of En[2 more...]
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