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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 188 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 16 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 14 0 Browse Search
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States. 6 0 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 6 0 Browse Search
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States 4 0 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 4 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 4 0 Browse Search
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 2 0 Browse Search
Mrs. John A. Logan, Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife: An Autobiography 2 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Amherst, Sir Jeffrey, 1717- (search)
Amherst, Sir Jeffrey, 1717- Military officer; born in Kent, England, Jan. 29, 1717; became an ensign in the army in 1731, and was aide to Lord Ligonier and the Duke of Cumberland. In 1756 he was promoted to major-general and given the command of the expedition against Louisburg in Sir Jeffrey Amherst. 1758, which resulted in its capture, with other French strongholds in that vicinity. In September, that year, he was appointed commander-in-chief in America, and led the troops in person, in 1759, that drove the French from Lake Champlain. The next year he captured Montreal and completed the conquest of Canada. For these acts he was rewarded with the thanks of Parliament and the Order of the Bath. In 1763 he was appointed governor of Virginia. The atrocities of the Indians in May and June of that year aroused the anger and the energies of Sir Jeffrey, and he contemplated hurling swift destruction upon the barbarians. He denounced Pontiac as the chief ringleader of mischief
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813- (search)
ponses broke in, that it was worth our while to consider both alternatives. What will be the result if this present struggle shall eventuate in the separation of America and making the South--(loud applause, hisses, hooting, and cries of Bravo! )--a slave territory exclusively--(cries of No, no! and laughter)--and the North a fre people of strange tongue. (A voice: Degenerate sons, applause and hisses; another voice: What about the Trent? ) If there had been any feelings of bitterness in America, let me tell you that they had been excited, rightly or wrongly, under the impression that Great Britain was going to intervene between us and our own lawful stru cheers, and uproar.) I will not say that England cannot again, as hitherto, singlehanded manage any power--(applause and uproar — but I will say that England and America together for religion and liberty--(a voice: Soap, soap! uproar, and great applause)--are at match for the world. (Applause; a voice: They don't want any more s
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Blennerhassett, Harman, 1764- (search)
nnerhassett, Harman, 1764- Scholar; born in Hampshire, England, Oct. 8, 1764 or 1765; was of Irish descent: educated at the University of Dublin; studied law and practised there; and in 1796 married the beautiful Adelaide Agnew, daughter of General Agnew. who was killed in the battle at Germantown, 1777. Being a republican in principle, he became involved in the political troubles in Ireland in 1798. Blennerhassett's Island residence. when he sold his estates in England. and came to America with an ample fortune. He purchased an island in the Ohio River. nearly opposite Marietta, built an elegant mansion, furnished it luxuriantly, and there he and his accomplished wife were living in happiness and contentment, surrounded by books. philosophical apparatus, pictures, and other means for intellectual culture, when Aaron Burr entered that paradise, and tempted and ruined its dwellers. A mob of militiamen laid the island waste, in a degree. and Blennerhassett and his wife beca
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Crown Point, (search)
compliment to the royal family; and he was rewarded for the success achieved by Lyman with a baronetcy and $20,000 to support the new title. The French strengthened their works at Crown Point, and fortified Ticonderoga. The conduct of the second campaign against Crown Point was intrusted to Gen. John Winslow (a great-grandson of Edward Winslow, governor of Plymouth), who led the expedition against the Acadians in 1755. The Earl of Loudoun was commander-in-chief of the British forces in America, and Gen. James Abercrombie (q. v.) was his lieutenant. General Winslow had collected 7,000 men at Albany before Abercrombie's arrival, with several British regiments, in June. Difficulties immediately occurred respecting military rank. These, unadjusted when Loudoun arrived, were made worse by his arrogant assumption of supreme rank for the royal officers, and the troops were not ready to move until August. Vigorous measures were meanwhile taken to supply and reinforce the forts at Osw
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Debs, Eugene Victor, 1855- (search)
Debs, Eugene Victor, 1855- Labor leader; born in Terre Haute, Ind., Nov. 5, 1855; educated in the common schools; city clerk of Terre Haute in 1879-83; member of the Indiana legislature in 1885; served as grand secretary and treasurer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen in 1880-93; president of the American Railway Union in 1893-97; and in June of the latter year was made chairman of the national council of the Social Democracy of America, a society founded for political and industrial co-operation. When president of the American Railway Union he conducted a notable strike on the Great Northern Railway, and in 1894 directed the great strike on the Western railroads, for which he was charged with conspiracy, but was acquitted, and subsequently, in 1895, served a sentence of six months imprisonment for contempt of court in violating its injunction. In 1896 he lectured on The relations of the Church to labor, and in 1900 was the candidate of the Social Democratic National par
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Graebner, August L. 1849- (search)
Graebner, August L. 1849- Theologian; born in Frankentrost, Mich., July 10, 1849; graduated at Concordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind., and at the Concordia Theological Seminary, St. Louis, where he became Professor of Theology in 1887. He is the author of History of the Lutheran Church in America; Half a century of Sound Lutheranism in America, etc. Graebner, August L. 1849- Theologian; born in Frankentrost, Mich., July 10, 1849; graduated at Concordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind., and at the Concordia Theological Seminary, St. Louis, where he became Professor of Theology in 1887. He is the author of History of the Lutheran Church in America; Half a century of Sound Lutheranism in America, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ireland, John 1838- (search)
years past by the allied armies of France and America. We are bidden by America to give in the hea, Marquis de Lafayette. Strange were it if America did not cherish the name of Lafayette. He lout a home and without hopes. His devotion to America was as unselfish as it was intense. I offer lace of Versailles, the acknowledged envoy of America, and Gerard de Rayneval, as the minister of F of the interests of their own country. What America knows, what she will never fail to know, is tthe noble-hearted people of France, who loved America, and encouraged the alliance of their countryf the new republic of the West. The war of America was waged for a mighty principle of deepest ished singular glory upon the battle-fields of America. America rose in rebellion against arbitraryit is there because of its plenary triumph in America, whence went forth the charmed spell that reaon, the full significance of the work done in America by Lafayette and France. This is the age o[12 more...]
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lafayette, Marie Jean Paul Roch Yves Gilbert Motier, Marquis de 1757- (search)
pleasure, and he hoped to close his career in America by some brilliant act. Lafayette's headquar his native land. His offence in sailing for America in defiance of the King's command was atoned e Queen eagerly sought information concerning America from his own lips. His fame made him the admrm that everybody was talking of peace, while America was struggling with armed champions of royaltand. Great exertions were made in Europe and America to obtain his release, but in vain, until Bon of mind when I first learned the troubles in America: they only became thoroughly known in Europe of Lord Stormont. He despatched privately to America some old arms, which were of little use, and Preparations were making to send a vessel to America, when very bad tidings arrived from thence. stances that M. de Lafayette first arrived in America; but the moment, although important to the co or to furnish the means of his conveyance to America. Difficulties rise up before him only to be [8 more...]
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lyman, Phineas 1716- (search)
out of the French and Indian War he was commander-in-chief of the Connecticut forces; he built Fort Lyman (afterwards Fort Edward), on the upper Hudson, and fought and won the battle at the head of Lake George in 1755. In 1758 he served under General Abercrombie, and was with Lord Howe when he was killed. He was also at the capture of Crown Point and Montreal, and, in 1762, led provincial troops against Havana. In 1763 General Lyman went to England to get prizemoney for himself and fellow-officers and to solicit a grant of land on the Mississippi for a company called Military adventurers. He returned to America in 1774, at which time a tract near Natchez was granted to the petitioners; and thither he went with his eldest son, and died soon after reaching west Florida, as the region was then called, near the present Natchez, Miss., Sept. 10, 1774. The emigrants suffered great hardships, and on the conquest of the country by the Spaniards (1781-82) they took refuge in Savannah.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Morgan, Thomas J. 1839- (search)
Morgan, Thomas J. 1839- Clergyman; born in Franklin, Ind., Aug. 17, 1839; educated at Franklin College; served in the National army in 1862-65, receiving the brevet of brigadier-general; graduated at the Rochester Theological Seminary in 1868. Later he was Professor of Homiletics and Church History for seven years at the Baptist Theological Seminary in Chicago: United States commissioner of Indian affairs in 1889-93; then became corresponding secretary of the American Baptist Home Mission Society. His publications include Patriotic citizenship; The negro in America, etc.
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