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1206 AD (search for this): chapter 4
,589,984 and $55,887,510. The year 1862-63 gives us more details in regard to other supplies, such as 373,348,246 pounds oats; 335,812,088 pounds corn; 629,173,124 pounds hay and fodder; 95,829,799 pounds mixed grain; 186,615 pounds of leather, and horseshoes to the number of more than two million. Among the arms and ammunition furnished by the ordnance department we will mention 1373 field-pieces during the first year and 1108 during the second; and also 653 and 188 siegeguns, and finally 1206 and 41 sea-coast guns and mortars, amounting in all to the enormous figure of 4569 cannon and mortars; 7284, then 3465, gun-carriages, caissons, etc.; 987,291, then 991,387, infantry and cavalry accoutrements; 968,840, then 582,736, small-arms for foot-soldiers; 213,991,127 cartridges for the first year, and 166,867,457 for the second; finally, during the latter year, 373,192,870 percussion-caps. As it will be seen, while the armament of the fortifications mounting heavy guns was completed
1373 AD (search for this): chapter 4
ails, must have been about the same, if we may judge from the aggregate cost, which amounted respectively to $54,589,984 and $55,887,510. The year 1862-63 gives us more details in regard to other supplies, such as 373,348,246 pounds oats; 335,812,088 pounds corn; 629,173,124 pounds hay and fodder; 95,829,799 pounds mixed grain; 186,615 pounds of leather, and horseshoes to the number of more than two million. Among the arms and ammunition furnished by the ordnance department we will mention 1373 field-pieces during the first year and 1108 during the second; and also 653 and 188 siegeguns, and finally 1206 and 41 sea-coast guns and mortars, amounting in all to the enormous figure of 4569 cannon and mortars; 7284, then 3465, gun-carriages, caissons, etc.; 987,291, then 991,387, infantry and cavalry accoutrements; 968,840, then 582,736, small-arms for foot-soldiers; 213,991,127 cartridges for the first year, and 166,867,457 for the second; finally, during the latter year, 373,192,870 p
1407 AD (search for this): chapter 4
nagement in a condition for the service of the army became a real science, to which we propose referring again at the close of this history. The report for 1863 gives us some curious figures concerning the transportation by land, and by water which complemented it. To secure this double service the department, on the one hand, purchased 64 locomotives and 899 cars during that single year; on the other hand, it hired 632 sailing vessels (32 of which were large three-masters), 695 tenders, and 1407 steamers of all dimensions, at the cost of $13,788,044. The following statement will convey an idea of the aggregate amount of transportation by the quartermaster in the course of that year, both through the resources directly at his disposal and by contracts concluded with the railroad companies and the owners of vessels, from the 1st of July, 1862, to June 30, 1863: Transportation by LandWeight (tons.)Transportation by Water.Weight (tons.) Subsistence stores (in barrels and kegs)784
December 31st, 1815 AD (search for this): chapter 4
ve; but this advantage had not prevented its being beaten at Chancellorsville. It conquered at Gettysburg because chance afforded it strong positions, which Buford and Reynolds preserved for it, and which Meade turned to excellent account. Eight days after his appointment this fortunate chieftain gave his soldiers a decisive victory: there was the less reason for begrudging him his glory because, being born on European soil, he could not aspire to the Presidency, Gen. Meade was born Dec. 31, 1815, at Cadiz, Spain, where his parents, who were American citizens, temporarily resided. His father, Richard W. Meade, at the time held the appointment of United States Naval Agent at the port of Cadiz, and Gen. Meade was born under the American flag. Whatever question there may be as to what the law might have been at the time of Gen. Meade's birth, the reverse of what is stated in the text seems to have been settled by the Act of Congress of February 10, 1855, the passage of which was
1847 AD (search for this): chapter 4
were placed at the head of the Second and Third, and each of them had the rank of lieutenantgeneral conferred upon him. If these last two officers, to recall the comparison made after the death of Turenne, were the small change for Stonewall Jackson, it might be said with truth that the minor coins were of sterling value. No one could dispute to Ewell the honor of succeeding Jackson in the command of the Second corps. We have seen him at his brilliant debut charging the gate of Mexico in 1847 with Kearny's squadron. A Virginian by birth, like Lee and Jackson, he possessed on that soil, so fruitful in valiant soldiers, a beautiful residence near the city of Williamsburg, in the heart of the old colony of English Cavaliers. This dwelling, of brick and wood, square built, with a lofty flight of steps, of sombre aspect, and standing alone in the centre of a vast clearing, surrounded by a magnificent forest, had been for a year in possession of the Federals. After having almost inva
1853 AD (search for this): chapter 4
ens, temporarily resided. His father, Richard W. Meade, at the time held the appointment of United States Naval Agent at the port of Cadiz, and Gen. Meade was born under the American flag. Whatever question there may be as to what the law might have been at the time of Gen. Meade's birth, the reverse of what is stated in the text seems to have been settled by the Act of Congress of February 10, 1855, the passage of which was brought about by a pamphlet written by the late Horace Binney in 1853, on The Alienigenoe of the United States. That act provides that all children heretofore born . . . . out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States, whose fathers were . . . . at the time of their birth citizens thereof, are declared to be citizens of the United States; that is, they are declared to be natural-born citizens as contradistinguished from naturalized citizens, and the Constitution provides that no person except a natural-born citizen shall be eligible to the office of P
February 10th, 1855 AD (search for this): chapter 4
ncy, Gen. Meade was born Dec. 31, 1815, at Cadiz, Spain, where his parents, who were American citizens, temporarily resided. His father, Richard W. Meade, at the time held the appointment of United States Naval Agent at the port of Cadiz, and Gen. Meade was born under the American flag. Whatever question there may be as to what the law might have been at the time of Gen. Meade's birth, the reverse of what is stated in the text seems to have been settled by the Act of Congress of February 10, 1855, the passage of which was brought about by a pamphlet written by the late Horace Binney in 1853, on The Alienigenoe of the United States. That act provides that all children heretofore born . . . . out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States, whose fathers were . . . . at the time of their birth citizens thereof, are declared to be citizens of the United States; that is, they are declared to be natural-born citizens as contradistinguished from naturalized citizens, and the
1860 AD (search for this): chapter 4
the 30th of June, 1863. The horses captured from the enemy, numbering 7783, and mules. 6915, afforded no compensation for the losses sustained from all causes, amounting to 57,476 horses and 17,170 mules. When it is known that the new census of 1860 credited the Northern States with a total of 4,688,678 horses and 454,081 mules, it will be understood how heavily the war weighed upon the production of the horse-breeding States. With regard to the materiel, we shall confine ourselves to the rty, which could always count upon the suffrages of the New England States. The returns of these local elections gave to the Democrats a small majority of 35,000 votes out of 2,422,000 voters, whilst in the same States Mr. Lincoln had received in 1860 a majority of more than two hundred thousand votes over his competitors. Public opinion was therefore shaken: the most zealous partisans. of the President's policy acknowledged that a general vote on the question of emancipation, and even on the
1861 AD (search for this): chapter 4
ts. The orators of this party are those who in 1861 defended the right of holding public meetings, he soldiers who had enlisted for three years in 1861 still constituted the principal nucleus and they into a vast department. In each of the years 1861, 1862, and 1863 the Secretary of War is asking War as below the real amount. During the year 1861-62 the government bought 109,799 horses and 83, The number of tents bought or manufactured in 1861-62, besides 85,656 shelter-tents, footed up as not, and could not be, very strict; in the year 1861-62 they had declared in favor of admitting two than the maintenance of the Union as it was in 1861. In order that a slaveholding community may exseemed to be approaching. The parties which in 1861 had set aside their quarrels in order to defend to resume the same position it had occupied in 1861, or did it contemplate the invasion of Pennsylvistant Secretary of War by Secretary Cameron in 1861.—Ed. and who had organized a thorough system f[3 more...]
June 9th, 1861 AD (search for this): chapter 4
to the efforts of private charity. The labors of this commission embraced—first, the condition of the material, clothing, etc., of the volunteers; second, their diet and the preventive measures to be taken against sickness; third, the manner in which the hospitals, ambulances, and medical stores were organized; or, in a few words, what assistance sick men received. After some hesitation the Secretary of War, on recommendation of the surgeon-general, approved this project, and on the 9th of June, 1861, appointed the commission, which shortly after took the name, thenceforth celebrated, of the United States Sanitary Commission. The latter had scarcely been constituted when it addressed its first appeal to the public, calling for all well-disposed persons to co-operate in its labors, and suggesting the formation of committees for the purpose of collecting contributions in money and in supplies. It addressed itself more particularly to life-insurance companies, as being directly int
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