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Abbott, Edward,
Fourth son of Jacob Abbott, was born July 15, 1841; was graduated at the University of the City of New York in 1860.
During 1862 and 1863 he was connected with the Sanitary Commission of the Army of the Potomac.
He was a Congregational minister from 1863 to 1878.
when he entered the Protestant Episcopal Church.
Among his published writings are Paragraph histories of the Revolution; Revolutionary times; United States, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Abercrombie , John Joseph 1802 -1877 (search)
Abercrombie, John Joseph, 1802-1877
Military officer; born in Tennessee in 1802; was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1822.
Entering the 1st Infantry, he was its adjutant from 1825 to 1833.
Serving in Florida and Mexico, he was promoted to brevet lieutenant-colonel for gallantry in the battle of Monterey, where he was severely wounded.
He was commissioned lieutenant-colonel in May, 1852, and colonel in February, 1861, and was brevetted brigadier-general, U. S. A., March 13, 1865.
In June following he retired.
He was a brigadier-general of volunteers in the Civil War, and commanded a brigade in Patterson's division on the Upper Potomac in 1861.
He was transferred to Bank's division in July.
Early in 1862 he joined the Army of the Potomac, and was slightly wounded in the battle of fair Oaks (q. v.). He died in Roslyn, N. Y., Jan. 3, 1877.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Adair , William P. 1880 (search)
Adair, William P., -1880
Born in 1828.
He was one of the chiefs of the Cherokee nation, and during the Civil War he commanded a brigade of Indians which had been organized by Gen. Albert Pike on behalf of the Confederacy.
This brigade took part in the battle of Pea Ridge, Ark., in 1862.
He died in 1880.
Adams, Henry A., Jr.
Born in Pennsylvania in 1833.
Graduated at Annapolis in 1851.
Took part in the engagement with the forts at the mouth of Canton River, China, in 1854.
Was on the Brooklyn at the passage of Forts St. Philip and Jackson in 1862, and also participated in the attack on Fort Fisher.
Was highly praised by Admiral Porter in his official despatches.
Admiral,
Several times the title of the highest rank in the United States naval service.
Prior to the Civil War the highest rank was that of commodore.
In 1862 Congress established the rank of rear-admiral: in 1864 that of vice-admiral; and in 1866 that of admiral, in each case the office being bestowed on David G. Farragut.
On the death of David D. Porter (1891), who by law had succeeded to the titles of vice-admiral and admiral, both these grades were abolished, and the grade of rear-admiral remained the highest till 1899, when that of admiral was again ereated by Congress and conferred on George Dewey.
Further legislation by Congress in that year increased the number of rear-admirals from six, to which it bad been reduced in 1882, to eighteen, and divided these officers into two classes of nine each, the first nine corresponding in rank to major-generals in the army, and the second to brigadier-generals.
The same act made the increase in the number of rear-admirals possibl
Agnus, Felix, 1839-
Journalist; born in Lyons, France, July 4, 1839; was educated in the College of Jolie Clair, near Paris; came to the United States in 1860, and in the following year entered the Union army in Duryea's Zouaves (5th New York Volunteers). At Big Bethel he saved the life of Gen. Judson Kilpatrick.
He aided in recruiting the 165th New York Volunteers, of which he was made captain: in 1862 he participated in the siege of Port Hudson, La.; afterwards was promoted major and lieutenant-colonel.
He next served in the 19th Corps under Sheridan and in the department of the South.
On March 13, 1865, he was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers, and in August of the same year was mustered out of the service.
After the war he became the editor and publisher of the Baltimore American.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Alcott , Louisa May 1832 -1888 (search)
Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888
Author; born in Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 29, 1832; daughter of Amos Bronson Alcott.
In 1862 she volunteered as a nurse, and for mouths labored in the military hospitals.
In 1868 she published Little women, which almost immediately made her famous.
Her other works are, Flower Fables, or fairy tales; Hospital sketches; An old-fashioned girl; a series called Aunt Jo's scrap bag, containing My boys, Shawl straps, Cupid and Chow-Chow, My girls, Jimmy's cruise in the Pinafore, and An old-fashioned Thanksgiving; Work, a story of experience; Eight cousins; Rose in bloom; Silver pitchers; Under the Lilacs; Jack and Gill; Moods; Proverb stories; Spinning-wheel stories; Lulu's Library, etc. She died in Boston, Mass., March 6, 1888.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Allison , William Boyd 1829 - (search)
Allison, William Boyd, 1829-
Politician; born in Perry, O., March 2, 1829; was educated at Alleghany and Western Reserve Colleges; admitted to the bar and practised in Ohio until 1857, when he removed to Dubuque, Ia. In 1860 he was a delegate to the Chicago Convention.
During the Civil War he was active in raising troops for the Union army.
In 1862 he was elected to Congress as a Republican, and was re-elected three times.
In 1873 he was elected to the United States Senate, and has since held the seat by reelections.
He has been a conspicuous candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination several times, and his name is associated with that of the late Richard P. Bland (q. v.) in the history of the Silver Act of 1877-78.
See Bland silver bill.
Ames, Adelbert, 1835-
Military officer; born in Rockland, Me., Oct. 31, 1835; was graduated at West Point in 1861; and for his gallant conduct in the Battle of Bull Run (1861) was brevetted major.
He served in the campaigns on the Peninsula in 1862.
At Chancellorsville he led a brigade, also at Gettysburg, in 1863, and before Petersburg, in 1864, he commanded a division.
In the expedition against Fort Fisher, near the close of that year, he commanded a division of colored troops, and afterwards led the same in North Carolina.
In the spring of 1865 he was brevetted major-general of volunteers and brigadier-general, U. S. A. In 1871 he was a representative of Mississippi in the United States Senate; was governor in 1874; and was appointed a brigadier-general of volunteers June 20, 1898, serving through the war with Spain.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ames , Oakes 1804 -1873 (search)