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Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz) | 30 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 10 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) | 7 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4 | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
The Daily Dispatch: March 27, 1865., [Electronic resource] | 3 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Index, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Armstrong , John , 1758 -1843 (search)
Armstrong, John, 1758-1843
Military officer; born in Carlisle, Pa., Nov. 25, 1758.
While a student at Princeton, in 1775, he became a volunteer in Potter's Pennsylvania regiment, and was soon afterwards made an aide-de-camp to General Mercer.
He was afterwards placed on the staff of General Gates, and remained so from the beginning of that officer's campaign against Burgoyne until the end of the war, having the rank of major.
Holding a facile pen, he was employed to write the famous
John Armstrong. Newburgh addresses.
They were powerfully and eloquently written.
After the war he was successively Secretary of State and Adjutant-General of Pennsylvania; and in 1784 he conducted operations against the settlers in the Wyoming Valley.
The Continental Congress in 1787 appointed him one of the judges for the Northwestern Territory, but he declined.
Two years later he married a sister of Chancellor Livingston, removed to New York, purchased a farm within the precincts of the old
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Potter , Robert B. 1829 -1887 (search)
Potter, Robert B. 1829-1887
Military officer; born in Schenectady, N. Y., July 16, 1829; son of Bishop Alonzo Potter; was a successful lawyer in New York City when the Civil War broke out. He entered the military service as major of the Shepard Rifles, and led the attack with Reno's Zouaves and the 9th New Jersey Regiment on Roanoke Island, Feb. 8, 1862.
He was wounded at Newbern; behaved gallantly at the head of his regiment in battles in Virginia, and at Antietam carried the stone bridge on the National left, when he was again wounded.
He was in the battle at Fredericksburg, and was made brigadier-general of volunteers in March, 1863.
He commanded a division in the siege of Vicksburg, was active in the defence of Knoxville, and commanded a corps against Longstreet in Tennessee.
In command of a division in the Army of the Potomac, he was distinguished throughout the Richmond campaign in 1864-65, and was shot through the body at Petersburg (April 2, 1865), but recovered.
He w
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Stevens , William Bacon 1815 -1887 (search)
Stevens, William Bacon 1815-1887
Clergyman; born in Bath, Me., July 13, 1815; graduated at the Medical Department of Dartmouth College in 1837, and practised till 1842; then studied theology and was ordained in the Protestant Episcopal Church; was consecrated assistant to Bishop Alonzo Potter, of Pennsylvania, in 1862, and upon the latter's death in 1865 succeeded to the bishopric.
He was the author of Discourses before the Historical Society of Georgia; History of Georgia (2 volumes) ; History of silk culture in Georgia, etc. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., June 11, 1887.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America . (search)