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Pacific Railway.
The greatest of American railroad enterprises undertaken up to that time was the construction of a railway over the great plains and lofty mountain-ranges between the Missouri River and the Pacific Ocean.
As early as 1846 such a work was publicly advocated by Asa Whitney.
In 1849, after the discovery of gold in California promised a rapid accumulation of wealth and population on the Pacific coast, Senator Thomas H. Benton introduced a bill into Congress providing for preliminary steps in such an undertaking.
In 1853 Congress passed an act providing for surveys of various routes by the corps of topographical engineers.
By midsummer, 1853, four expeditions for this purpose were organized to explore as many different routes.
One, under Major Stevens, was instructed to explore a northern route, from the upper Mississippi to Puget's Sound, on the Pacific coast.
A second expedition, under the direction of Lieutenant Whipple, was directed to cross the continent fr
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Roosevelt , Theodore 1858 -1893 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Tallasahatchee, battle of. (search)
Tallasahatchee, battle of.
The massacre at Fort Mims (see Mims, Fort, massacre at) stirred the indignation of the whole people of the Southwest.
A cry for help went northward.
Jackson was then prostrate at a Nashville inn, from the effects of a bullet received from the hands of Thomas H. Benton, in a duel.
He appealed to the Tennesseeans to take the field, promising to be with them as soon as possible.
Five thousand men speedily responded.
Jackson despatched (Sept. 26, 1813) Gen. John Coffee, with 500 dragoons and as many mounted volunteers as could join him immediately, towards the Creek country.
Jackson, with his arm in a sling, joined him soon afterwards, and drilled his troops thoroughly for the emergency.
When he arrived at the Coosa he was informed that the hostile Creeks were assembled at Tallasahatchee, a town in an open woodland.
Jackson sent the stalwart Coffee, with 1,000 horsemen, to attack them.
He was accompanied by friendly Creeks and Cherokees.
On the mor
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America . (search)