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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Andrews , John Newman , 1838 - (search)
Andrews, John Newman, 1838-
Military officer; born in Wilmington, Del., Sept. 16, 1838; was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1860; promoted first lieutenant in 1861; colonel, in 1895; and was retired April 1, 1899.
From June 3, 1898, to Feb. 24, 1899, be was a brigadier-general of volunteers.
After the Civil War he served in a number of Indian campaigns, and in 1898 through the war with Spain.
Asphalt,
A solid bituminous substance.
probably derived from decayed vegetable matter; used as building material in ancient Babylon.
The artificial asphalt from gas-works began to be used as pavement about 1838.
Various kinds of asphalt pavement have been since laid in New York, and the leading cities of the United States and Europe.
The most celebrated deposit of natural bitumen is on the island of Trinidad, whence the United States obtains its chief supply.
although in the calendar year 1809 the United States had an aggregate production of asphalt and bituminous rock of 75.085 short tons, valued at $553,904, the mining being in California. Kentucky, Indian Territory, Oklahoma, Texas. Colorado, and Utah, the principal amount being mined in California.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Audubon , John James , 1780 -1851 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ballou , Maturin Murray , 1820 -1895 (search)
Ballou, Maturin Murray, 1820-1895
Journalist; born in Boston, Mass., April 14, 1820; was educated in the Boston High School.
In 1838 he entered journalism on the Olive branch, a weekly.
Later he became proprietor and editor of Ballou's monthly and Gleason's pictorial.
He became one of the founders of the Boston Daily globe in 1872, and for many years was its chief editor.
He also had a part or whole interest in Ballou's pictorial ; The flag of our Union, and the Boston Sunday budget.
His works include Due West; Due South; Due North ; Under the Southern cross; The New El Dorado; Aztec land; The story of Malta; Equatorial America; Biography of the Rev. Hosea Ballou.
He died in Cairo, Egypt. March 27, 1895.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bankruptcy laws, past and present. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Barnard , John gross , 1815 -1882 (search)
Barnard, John gross, 1815-1882
Military engineer: born in Sheffield, Mass., May 19, 1815; was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1833, and entered the engineer corps.
He was made captain in 1838; major in 1858; brevet brigadier-general of volunteers in 1861; lieutenant-colonel of regulars in 1863; brevet major-general of volunteers in 1864; brevet brigadier-general and brevet major-general of regulars, March, 1865; and colonel of the corps of engineers, regular army, Dec. 28, the same year.
During the war with Mexico he fortified Tampico, and made surveys of the battle-fields around the capital.
In 1850-51 he was chief engineer of the projected Tehuantepec Railroad; and in 1855-56 he was superintendent of the United States Military Academy.
He was chief engineer of the Army of the Potomac, 1861-62; also chief engineer of the construction of the defences of the national capital from September, 1862, to May, 1864.
He was chief engineer of the armies in the field
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Beauregard , Pierre Gustave toutant , (search)
Beauregard, Pierre Gustave toutant,
Military officer; born on a plantation near New Orlenas, May 28, 1818; was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1838, and entered the artiliery service, but was transferred to the engineer corps.
He won the brevets of captain
Gen, Pierre G. T. Brauregard. and major in the war with Mexico, and was wounded at Chapultepee; also at the taking of the city of Mexico.
He left the service of the United States in 1861, and joined the Confederates in February.
He conducted the siege of Fort Sumter, and was afterwards active as a leader in Virginia and other parts of the slave-labor States.
Beauregard was made brigadier-general in the Confederate army. Feb. 20, 1861, and was placed in command of the gathering army of Confederates at Manassas Junction — the Department of Alexandria.
He took the command at the beginning of June, 1861, and issued a proclamation which was calculated and intended to fire the Southern heart.
He said: A reck
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bigelow , Erastus Brigham , 1814 -1879 (search)
Bigelow, Erastus Brigham, 1814-1879
Inventor; born in West Boyleston, Mass., April 2, 1814.
His father was a cotton manufacturer; and this son, before he was eighteen years of age, had invented a hand-loom for weaving suspender webbing.
In 1838 he obtained a patent for an automatic loom for weaving knotted counterpanes, but soon made great improvements.
In 1839 he entered into a contract with a Lowell manufacturing company to construct a power-loom for weaving two-ply ingrain carpets (that were before woven exclusively by the hand-loom, which could produce only 8 yards a day). He died in Boston, Mass., Dec. 6, 1879.
Bird, Charles, 1838-
Military officer: born in Delaware, June 17, 1838 entered the volunteer service in 1861: appointed to the regular army in 1866; promoted major in 1895: colonel of volunteers throughout the war with Spain, in 1898, serving in the quartermaster-general's office.