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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., Analytical Index. (search)
ard for the capture of John Brown, 286; 338; his Message in the S. C. Convention, 845; his last Annual Message, 367 to 371; 408; sends Cushing to Charleston, 409; 411; 414; 428; vote cast for him in Kentucky, 492; letter to Jeff. Davis, 511. Buckingham, Gov., of Conn., is reflected, 326. Buckner, Aylett, of Ky., 194. Buckner, Gen. Simon B., organizes State Guard; Louisville Journal curses him, 494; 496; 509; 609. Buffalo, N. Y., the Free-Soil Convention at, 191; its Platform, 192. . H.. pro-Slavery mob at, 127. Congregationalists, the, and Slavery, 119. Connecticut, slave population in 1790; troops furnished during the Revolution, 86; 37; first Abolition society in, 107; 108; diminished Republican majority in, 300; Buckingham reflected in, 326. Conner, James, resigns at Charleston, 336. Conway, Gov. Elias W., of Ark., 341. Cook, Capt., routed at Camp Cole, Mo., 575. Cook, with John Brown, 298; is executed, 299. Copeland, with John Brown. 298; is exec
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 7: recruiting in New England. (search)
home, and the first New England State I struck was Connecticut. Her chief magistrate was Governor Buckingham, than whom a nobler, truer, or more loyal man did not exist. I told him I wanted to enliwant a good man for colonel,--I want you. Well, if you do, you cannot have me, because Governor Buckingham would never appoint me. Then I suppose if he would, you would serve with me. I cannot hand in it in behalf of the country, for the sake of your posterity. But do you think Governor Buckingham will appoint me? If he won't, you will have done your duty. But I think he will; I thnt thence to Vermont and met Governor Fairbanks. I talked to him pretty much as I had to Governor Buckingham. I told him that I wanted two gentlemen who had been my associates in the Charleston conbecause it will show what discipline can do. Passing through Connecticut I called upon Governor Buckingham, who said to me: You can do me a great favor, General. What is that, Governor? I will
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
. S. Navy at Fort Fisher, 792. Brooks, General, engagement near Port Walthall Junction, 645; repulses enemy, 648; reference to, 658-690; ordered to relieve Gillmore, 665-666. Brown, John, at Harper's Ferry, 133-134; intended to arm negroes with spears, 579. Brown, Lieutenant-Colonel, assists in editing the Delta, 895. Buchanan, President, fraudulent election of, 133; interview with regarding So. Carolina commissioners, 155-156; reference to reorganized cabinet, 217-982. Buckingham, Governor of Connecticut, aids in recruiting, 299-300. Buel, General, given reinforcements by Halleck, 457, 459; at Nashville, 872; Grant consults with, 873. Bull Run, forces at, 571; reference to, 872, 875. Burksville, Meade ordered to, 876. Burlington, N. J., Grant visits family at, 779. Burlingame, Anson, coalitionist leader, 98. Burnham, Gen., Hiram, distinguished at Fort Harrison, 737. Burnside, Gen. A. E., expedition of made possible, 285; recruits for special service
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 119 (search)
ing riflepits on the sand-hills, which were high and near, and got her log-book, from which it appears that she is the Ranger; that she left Newcastle November eleventh, 1863, for Bermuda, where, after touching at Teneriffe, she arrived on the eighth of December; that she sailed from Bermuda January sixth, 1864, made our coast January tenth, about five miles north-east of Murrill's inlet, and landed her passengers. The next morning at daylight, intercepted by this ship, the Daylight, Governor Buckingham, and Aries, in her approach to Western bar, she was beached and fired by her crew as above mentioned. The attempts of the Governor Buckingham, aided by the Daylight and Aries, to extinguish the fire and haul the ranger off, were frustrated by the enemy's sharp-shooters, whose fire completety commanded her decks. This ship, drawing about twenty-four (24) feet, was taken in four and one half (4 1/2) fathoms of water in front of the wreck, and the other vessels stationed to cross-fire
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 2: Two Years of Grim War. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), part 1.2, Antietam — the invasion of the North (search)
dred inhabitants), McClellan had his headquarters during the reorganization of the army, which he considered necessary after Antietam. The many reverses to the Federal arms since the beginning of the war had weakened the popular hold of the Lincoln Administration, and there was constant political pressure for an aggressive move against Lee. McClellan, yielding at last to this demand, began advancing his army into Virginia. Late on the night of November 7th, through a heavy rainstorm, General Buckingham, riding post-haste from Washington, reached McClellan's tent at Rectortown, and handed him Stanton's order relieving him from command. Burnside was appointed his successor, and at the moment was with him in the tent. Without a change of countenance, McClellan handed him the despatch, with the words: Well, Burnside, you are to command the army. Whatever may have been McClellan's fault, the moment chosen for his removal was most inopportune and ungracious. His last advance upon Lee w
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Engagements of the Civil war: with losses on both sides: May, 1864--June, 1865 (search)
Screw Sloops: Brooklyn, Juniata, Mohican, Shenandoah, Ticonderoga, Tuscarora; Screw Gun-Vessels: Kansas, Maumee, Nyack, Pequot, Yantic; Screw Gun-Boats: Chippewa, Huron, Seneca, Unadilla; Double-Enders: Iosco, Mackinaw, Maratanza, Osceola, Pawtuxet, Pontoosuc, Sassacus, Tacony; Miscellaneous Vessels: Fort Jackson, Monticello, Nereus, Quaker City, Rhode Island, Santiago de Cuba, Vanderbilt; Powder Vessel: Louisiana; Reserve: A. D. Vance,Alabama, Britannia, Cherokee, Emma, Gettysburg, Governor Buckingham, Howquah, Keystone State, Lilian, Little Ada, Moccasin, Nansemond, Tristram Shandy, Wilderness. Confed., North Carolina troops in garrison, commanded by Col. William Lamb, Gen. Hoke's Division outside. Losses: Union, 8 killed, 38 wounded; Confed., 3 killed, 55 wounded, 280 prisoners. December 28, 1864: Egypt Station, Miss. Union, 4th and 11th Ill. Cav., 7th Ind., 4th and 10th Mo., 2d Wis., 2d N. J., 1st Miss. and 3d U. S. Colored Cav.; Confed., troops of Gen. Gard
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), L. (search)
so as to form the required pattern. Lace-weaving. In lace-weaving, the threads of the weft are twisted round those of the warp. The manner of twisting determines the character of the net and its name, as whip-net, mail-net, pattern-net, drop-net, spider-net, balloon-net, Paris-net, bobbin-net. The classification of laces at the English exhibition of 1851 was as follows: — 1. Pillow-lace, the article or fabric being wholly made by hand (known as Valencieanes, Mechlia, Honiton, Buckingham); or Guipare made by the crochet-needle; and silk lace, called blande when white, and Chantilly, Pay, Grammont, and black Buckinghamshire, when black. 2. Lace, the ground being machine-wrought, the ornamentation made on the pillow and afterwards applied to the ground (known as Brussels, Honiton, or appliquee lace). 3. Machine-made net or quillings, wholly plain, whether warp or bobbin (known as bobbin-net, tulles, blondes, Cambraic, Mechlin, Malines, Brussels, Alencon, etc.). 4. L
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
person, much in vogue during the last century. It was usually carried by two men, by means of a pole on each side. A similar contrivance, termed sella, was used by the Romans under the Empire; the poles (asseres) were removable. The name is derived from Sedan, in France, where they were originally made. Their introduction into England dates back to 1581. Sir Sanders Duncomb obtained a patent or monopoly of their manufacture for 14 years. In the reign of James 1. the Duke of Buckingham incurred great odium by using one, requiring free Britons to perform the work of beasts. Come in a sedan from the other end of the town. — Pepys' Diary, 1667. The reigns of Queen Anne and the first Georges seem to have been the golden age of the sedan-chair. Sed′i-ment-col-lect′or. （Steam.) A device to prevent the deposition of sediment on the bottom of boilers. An inverted hollow cone, whose mouth is a little above the water surface of the boiler. It communicates with the
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), U. (search)
viallin, and to an abominable base viall at Hempson's, which, with his fiddle, made the worst music I ever heard. He [Templer] is a great traveller, and says all the harvest long the fiddlers go up and down the harvest fields [in Italy?] everywhere, in expectation of being hired by those that are stung [by the tarantulas]. — Pepys, 1662. We into the house and there fell to dancing, having extraordinary musick, two viollins, and a base viollin and theorbo, four hands, the Duke of Buckingham's musick, the best in towne. . . . . I paid the fiddlers £ 3 among the four, and so to bed. — Pepys's Diary, 1668. Syrian Kermanjek, and 'ood. A mention of the fiddle in England occurs in the legendary tale of St. Christopher, written early in the thirteenth century:— The king loved the melody of fithele and of song The instrument was noticed by Chaucer, but was not common till the time of Charles II., who, in imitation of Louis XIV and his band of performers under the leadersh
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 3: (search)
place it in your hands, as the treasurer of the committee, for appropriate distribution according to the methods and rules of that organization. I cannot perform this pleasing task without adding a feeble expression of the deep sensibility with which I received this noble and characteristic munificence, and of the honor I feel in being made the instrument of its transmission. Also, a similar letter to Mr. Mason, transmitting a check of Mrs. Hannah F. Lee for one thousand dollars. To Governor Buckingham, of Connecticut, We cannot furnish you with muskets, as we have exhausted our store. Will you co-operate with us, and have some bought by our agent in England? To Dr. William J. Dale, Express to Mrs. Tyler, and other citizens of Baltimore, my thanks for the care they have taken of our wounded men in that city. These extracts show the variety of topics which, in the first two weeks of the war, engaged the Governor's attention. The letters on file in the Adjutant-General's office,
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