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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Trent, the (search)
ilkes, was watching for the Trent in the Bahama channel, 240 miles from Havana, Captain Wilkes having decided, on his own responsibility, to seize the two Confederate envoys. the San Jacinto met the Trent on the forenoon of Nov. 8, signalled her to stop in vain, and then fired a shot across her bow. Her captain unwillingly allowed Mason and Slidell, with their secretaries, to be taken aboard the San Jacinto. Captain Wilkes reached Boston on Nov. 19, and the two ministers were confined in Fort Warren. This seizure was received with favor in the United States, but Great Britain demanded from the government at Washington a formal apology and the immediate release of the prisoners, Lord John Russell instructing the minister, Lord Lyons, at Washington, Nov. 30, 1861, that unless a satisfactory answer were given within seven days he might, at his discretion, withdraw the legation and return to England. This despatch was received on Dec. 18; on the 19th Lord Lyons called on Mr. Seward, an
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Underwood, John Cox 1840- (search)
Underwood, John Cox 1840- Engineer; born in Georgetown, D. C., Sept. 12, 1840; graduated at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1862; served in the Confederate army as military engineer in Virginia, but was taken prisoner in 1863 and confined in Fort Warren till the close of the war. He was mayor of Bowling Green, Ky., in 1870-72; city, county, and (consulting) State engineer in 1866-75; lieutenant-governor of Kentucky in 1875-79; major-general of the United Confederate Veterans in 1891-95; and superintendent and secretary of the Confederate Memorial Association in 1896. He published various documents; established the Kentucky Intelligencer; organized a publishing company in Cincinnati, O., in 1881; and issued the Daily Yews, of which he was managing editor.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
nfederates......May 3, 1863 Clement L. Vallandigham arrested at Dayton, O., for treasonable utterances, by orders from General Burnside......May 4, 1863 General Hooker recrosses the Rappahannock......May 5, 1863 General Grant occupies Jackson, Miss.......May 14, 1863 C. L. Vallandigham convicted by courtmartial at Cincinnati of disloyal utterances, and sentenced to close confinement during the war in some fortress of the United States. General Burnside approves, and designates Fort Warren, Boston......May 16, 1863 Battle of Champion Hills, Miss.......May 16, 1863 Battle of Big Black River, Miss.......May 17, 1863 Confederates retire within the defences of Vicksburg, and the siege begins......May 18, 1863 United States forces assault the works at Vicksburg without success......May 21-22, 1863 President rescinds General Burnside's order concerning C. L. Vallandigham, and sends him into the Confederacy......May 22, 1863 Major-General Banks, investing the C
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
y 14, and passes an act for the maintenance of the Union and the Constitution, creating the Union fund, and authorizing the issue of $3,000,000 in scrip, supplemented afterwards by an act empowering the governor to issue scrip for $7,000,000 to be loaned to the United States......May, 1861 First Massachusetts, the first threeyears' regiment to reach Washington, leaves the State......June 15, 1861 San Jacinto arrives at Boston with Mason and Slidell, Nov. 19; they are incarcerated in Fort Warren......Nov. 24, 1861 Maryland legislature appropriates $7,000 to be transmitted to the governor of Massachusetts for distribution among the families of those of the Massachusetts regiment who were killed or wounded in the Baltimore riot......December, 1861 New England women's auxiliary association organized, with headquarters at Boston......December, 1861 Mason and Slidell released and sail for England......Jan. 1, 1862 In response to a proclamation by Governor Andrews, callin
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