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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Fearing, Benjamin Dana 1837-1881 (search)
Fearing, Benjamin Dana 1837-1881 Military officer; born in Harmar, O., Oct. 10, 1837; enlisted in the 2d Ohio Regiment at the outbreak of the Civil War; took part in the battles of Bull Run, Shiloh, Hoover's Gap, and at Chickamauga, where he was severely wounded. During Sherman's march to the sea he commanded a brigade and was again wounded at Bentonville. General Sherman spoke of him as the bravest man that fought on Shiloh's field. He died in Harmar, O., Dec. 9, 1881. Fearing, Benjamin Dana 1837-1881 Military officer; born in Harmar, O., Oct. 10, 1837; enlisted in the 2d Ohio Regiment at the outbreak of the Civil War; took part in the battles of Bull Run, Shiloh, Hoover's Gap, and at Chickamauga, where he was severely wounded. During Sherman's march to the sea he commanded a brigade and was again wounded at Bentonville. General Sherman spoke of him as the bravest man that fought on Shiloh's field. He died in Harmar, O., Dec. 9, 1881.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Federal convention, the. (search)
Washington, Dickinson, and Rutledge had been members of the Continental Congress of 1774. From that body also were Roger Sherman, of Connecticut; William Livingston, governor of New Jersey; George Read, of Delaware, and George Wythe, of Virginia. From among the signers of the Declaration of Independence, besides Franklin, Read, Wythe, and Sherman, had come Elbridge Gerry, of Massachusetts, and Robert Morris, George Clymer, and James Wilson, of Pennsylvania. Eighteen members had, at the samVirginia. The members who took the leading part in the debates were Gerry, Gorham, and King, of Massachusetts; Johnson, Sherman, and Ellsworth, of Connecticut; Hamilton and Lansing, of New York; Paterson, of New Jersey; Wilson, Gouverneur Morris, atts—Francis Dana, Elbridge Gerry, Nathaniel Gorham, Rufus King, and Caleb Strong; Connecticut—William Samuel Johnson, Roger Sherman, and Oliver Ellsworth; New York—Robert Yates, John Lansing, Jr., and Alexander Hamilton; New Jersey— David Brearley,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Federal Union, the John Fiske (search)
hed a school of political training superior to anything else that the world has ever seen. It was something like what the New England town-meeting would be if it were continually required to adjust complicated questions of international polity, if it were carried on in the very centre or point of confluence of all contemporary streams of culture, and if it were in the habit every few days of listening to statesmen and orators like Hamilton or Webster, jurists like Marshall, generals like Sherman, poets like Lowell, historians like Parkman. Nothing in all history has approached the high-wrought intensity and brilliancy of the political life of Athens. On the other hand, the smallness of the independent city, as a political aggregate, made it of little or no use in diminishing the liability to perpetual warfare which is the curse of all primitive communities. In a group of independent cities, such as made up the Hellenic world, the tendency to warfare is almost as strong, and th
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Force, Manning Ferguson (search)
Force, Manning Ferguson Author; born in Washington, D. C., Dec. 17, 1824; graduated at Harvard in 1845; admitted to the bar, Cincinnati, 1850; appointed major of the 20th Ohio Regiment in 1861; took part in the battles at Fort Donelson and Shiloh, and in the siege at Vicksburg. He was with Sherman in the Atlanta campaign and was mustered out of service as brevet major-general of volunteers. In 1889 he became commandant of the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Home. Among his publications are From Fort Henry to Corinth; The Mound builders; Prehistoric man; The Vicksburg campaign; Marching across Carolina, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Forrest, Nathan Bedford 1821-1877 (search)
n the 14th he was defeated near Tupelo, Miss. Not long afterwards, when Smith was in Mississippi with 10,000 men, the bold raider flanked him, and dashed into Memphis in broad daylight, at the head of 3,000 cavalry, in search of National officers, and escaped again into Mississippi. He died in Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 29, 1877. His invasion of Tennessee, in 1864, was a remarkable performance. For several weeks he had been in northern Alabama, to prevent troops from the Mississippi joining Sherman. He crossed the Tennessee River, near Waterloo (Sept. 25, 1864), with a force of light cavalry, about 7,000 strong, and invested Athens. The post was surrendered about half an hour before sufficient reinforcements arrived to hold it. These, with the garrison, after a sharp conflict, became prisoners. Forrest then pushed on northward to Pulaski, in Tennessee, destroying the railway; but General Rousseau, at Pulaski, repulsed Forrest after brisk skirmishing several hours, when the raider
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Geary, John White 1819- (search)
officer; born in Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland co., Pa., Dec. 30, 1819; became a civil engineer, and served as lieutenant-colonel of a Pennsylvania regiment of volunteers in the war with Mexico, wherein he was wounded, and for gallant services was made colonel of his regiment. He was first commander of the city of Mexico after its capture. He went to San Francisco in 1848, and was the first mayor of that city. Returning to Pennsylvania, he was appointed territorial governor of Kansas in July, 1856, an office he held one year. Early in 1861 he raised and equipped the 28th regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers. In the spring of 1862 Emily Geiger's arrest. he was promoted brigadier-general, and did good service throughout the war, becoming, at the end of Sherman's march from Atlanta to the sea, military governor of Savannah and brevet major-general. In 1866 he was elected governor of Pennsylvania, and held the office till within two weeks of his death, in Harrisburg, Feb. 8, 1873.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Georgia, (search)
ds. Immediately after the election of Mr. Lincoln in 1860, the politicians of Georgia took measures for accomplishing the secession of the State. Its delegates in the Confederate government organized at Montgomery. Ala.. were conspicuous. Alexander H. Stephens (q. v.) being made Vice-President of the Confederacy. The governor of Georgia ordered the seizure of the public property of the United States within the limits of his State, and war made havoc on its coasts and in the interior. Sherman swept through the State with a large army late in 1864, living off the country, and within its borders the President of the Confederacy was captured in May, 1865 (see Davis, Jefferson). Within its borders was the famous Andersonville prison-pen (see Confederate prisons). In June, 1865, Seal of Georgia. a provisional governor was appointed for the State. A convention held at Milledgeville late in October repealed the ordinance of secession, declared the war debt void. amended the constit
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lincoln, Abraham 1809- (search)
ing slavery in that Territory; and four of the thirty-nine who afterwards framed the Constitution were in that Congress, and voted on that question. Of these Roger Sherman, Thomas Mifflin, and Hugh Williamson voted for the prohibition, thus showing that, in their understanding, no line dividing local from federal authority, nor ais Congress there were sixteen of the thirty-nine fathers who framed the original Constitution. They were John Langdon, Nicholas Gilman, William S. Johnson, Roger Sherman, Robert Morris, Thomas Fitzsimmons, William Few, Abraham Baldwin, Rufus King, William Paterson, George Clymer, Richard Bassett, George Read, Pierce Butler, Dan 1784, two in 1787, seventeen in 1789, three in 1798, two in 1804, and two in 1819-20, there would be thirty of them. But this would be counting John Langdon, Roger Sherman, William Few, Rufus King, and George Read each twice, and Abraham Baldwin three times. The true number of those of the thirty-nine whom I have shown to have a
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Logan, John Alexander 1826-1886 (search)
ch made the night before the battle of Thompson's Hill, where many troops were moved in the darkness of night. I myself marched my division from Hard times Landing to Bruinsburg, a distance of 8 miles, in the night-time— crossing the river in a boat at daylight— marched to the field of battle, and was on the field, a distance of 12 miles, by twelve o'clock that day. General Grant will remember that General McPherson's corps, after marching the greater part of the day to the sound of General Sherman's guns at the battle of Jackson, moved that night at one o'clock under orders from General Grant, marching 22 miles over a muddy road, and by twelve o'clock next day was formed in line of battle and confronting the enemy. These things, however, were done under orders from General Grant, whose orders were always observed. Suppose his officers had taken it upon themselves to determine the manner of obeying imperative commands, how long does any one suppose they would have kept their
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Revolutionary War, (search)
olonies are and ought to be free and independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that their political connection with Great Britain is and ought to be totally dissolved June 7, 1776 Committee appointed by Congress to prepare a form of confederationJune 11, 1776 Committee appointed by Congress to draw up a Declaration of Independence June 11, 1776 Board of war and ordnance appointed by Congress, consisting of five members, viz.: John Adams, Roger Sherman, Benjamin Harrison, James Wilson, and Edward Rutledge; Richard Peters elected secretary June 12, 1776 American forces under General Sullivan retire from Canada to Crown Point, N. Y. June 18, 1776 Unsuccessful attack on Fort Moultrie by British fleet under Sir Peter Parker June 28, 1776 Declaration of Independence adopted by Congress July 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence read to the army in New York by order of General Washington July 9, 1776 British General Lord Howe lands 10,000