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William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 14: (search)
now be found there: War Department, Adjutant-General's office, Washington, December 9, 1864. [General orders no. —.] The following dispatch having been received from Lieutenant-General Grant, viz.: Please telegraph orders relieving him (General Thomas) at once, and placing (General) Schofield in command, the President orders: 1. That Major-General J. M. Schofield relieve, at once, Major-General G. H. Thomas, in command of the Department and Army of the Cumberland. 2. General Thomas will turn over to General Schofield all orders and instructions received by him since the battle of Franklin. E. D. Townsend, A. A. G. Nashville, Tenn., December 9, 1864, 1 P. M. Liutenant-General U. S. Grant, City Point. Your dispatch of 8:30 P. M. of the 8th is just received. I have nearly completed my preparations to attack the enemy to-morrow morning, but a terrible storm of freezing rain has come on to-day, which will make it impossible for our men to fight to any advantag
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Emmet, Thomas Addis, 1763-1827 (search)
at Trinity College, Dublin; first studied medicine, and then law, and was admitted to the Dublin bar in 1791. He became a leader of the Association of United Irishmen, and was one of a general committee whose ultimate object was to secure the freedom of Ireland from British rule. With many of his associates, he was arrested in 1798, and for more than two years was confined in Fort George, Scotland. His brother Robert, afterwards engaged in the same cause, was hanged in Dublin in 1803. Thomas was liberated and banished to France after the treaty of Amiens, the severest penalties being pronounced against him if he should return to Great Britain. His wife was permitted to join him, on condition that she should never again set foot on British soil. He came to the United States in 1804, and became very eminent in his profession in the city of New York. He was made attorneygeneral of the State in 1812. A monument—an obelisk—was erected to his memory in St. Paul's church-yard, New
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Engineering. (search)
rd is used for steam production, one-third in metallurgical processes, and one-third for domestic consumption. Next in importance comes the production of iron and steel. Steel, on account of its great cost and brittleness, was only used for tools and special purposes until past the middle of the nineteenth century. This has been all changed by the invention of his steel by Bessemer in 1864, and open-hearth steel in the furnace of Siemens, perfected some twenty years since by Gilchrist & Thomas. The United States have taken the lead in steel manufacture. In 1873 Great Britain made three times as much steel as the United States. Now the United States makes twice as much as Great Britain, or 40 per cent. of all the steel made in the world. Mr. Carnegie has explained the reason why, in epigrammatic phrase: Three lbs. of steel billets can be sold for 2 cents. This stimulates rail and water traffic and other industries, as he tells us 1 lb. of steel requires 2 lbs. of ore,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ewing, Thomas, (search)
Ewing, Thomas, Statesman; born near West Liberty, Va., Dec. 28, 1789. While still a child his father removed to Ohio, where he settled on the Muskingum River. Thomas was educated at the Ohio University; admitted to the bar in 1816; and elected United States Senator from Ohio as a Whig and a follower of Henry Clay in 1831. In 1841 he was appointed Secretary of the Treasury; in 1849 Secretary of the Interior; and in 1850 was again elected to the United States Senate, succeeding Thomas Corwin. During this term he opposed the Fugitive Slave Law bill and also advocated the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia. In 1851 he resumed law practice in Lancaster, O., where he died Oct. 26, 1871.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kentucky, (search)
erates. General McCook led 50,000 men down the railroad, and pushed the Confederate line to Bowling Green, after a sharp skirmish at Mumfordsville, on the south side of the Green River. In eastern Kentucky Col. James A. Garfield struck (Jan. 7, 1862) the Confederates, under Humphrey Marshall, near Prestonburg, on the Big Sandy River, and dispersed them. This ended Marshall's military career, and Garfield's services there won for him the commission of a brigadier-general. On the 19th, General Thomas defeated Gen. George B. Crittenden near Mill Spring, when General Zollicoffer was slain and his troops driven into northwestern Tennessee. This latter blow effectually severed the Confederate lines in Kentucky, and opened the way by which the Confederates were soon driven out of the State and also out of Tennessee. The Confederate line was paralyzed eastward of Bowling Green, and their chief fortifications and the bulk of their troops were between Nashville and Bowling Green and the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lewis, Andrew 1730- (search)
h came to Virginia in 1732. Andrew was a volunteer to take possession of the Ohio region in 1754; was with Washington; and was major of a Virginian regiment at Braddock's defeat. In the expedition under Major Grant, in 1758, he was made prisoner and taken to Montreal. In 1768 he was a commissioner to treat with the Indians at Fort Stanwix; was appointed a brigadier-general in 1774, and on Oct. 10, that year, he fought a severe battle with a formidable Indian force at Point Pleasant, and gained a victory. In the Virginia House of Burgesses, and in the field, he was a bold patriot. A colonel in the army, he commanded the Virginia troops that drove Lord Dunmore from Virginian waters. In that expedition he caught a cold, from the effects of which he died, in Bedford county, Sept. 26, 1781. His four brothers —Samuel, Thomas. Charles, and William —were all distinguished in military annals. His statue occupies one of the pedestals around Crawford's Washington monument at Richmond
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Louisiana, (search)
l Keane and Admiral Cochrane, was sent forward by a negro to be distributed among the inhabitants. It read as follows: Louisianians! remain quietly in your houses; your slaves shall be preserved to you, and your property shall be respected. We make war only against Americans. While all this work of invasion was going on, Jackson had been busy at New Orleans preparing to roll it back. He had heard of the capture of the gunboats on the 15th, and he called upon Generals Coffee, Carroll, and Thomas to hasten to New Orleans with the Tennessee and Kentucky troops. They came as speedily as possible. Coffee came first, and Carroll arrived on Dec. 22. A troop of horse under Major Hinds, raised in Louisiana, came at the same time. General Villere, soon after his capture, escaped, crossed the Mississippi, rode up its right bank on a fleet horse to a point opposite New Orleans, crossed over, and gave Jackson such full information of the position of the invaders that he marched with quite a
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lynch, Thomas 1749- (search)
Lynch, Thomas 1749- Signer of the Declaration of Independence; born in Prince George parish, S. C., Aug. 5, 1749; was of Austrian descent. His father, also Thomas, a wealthy patriot, was a member of the Continental Congress from 1774 till his death, in 1776, The son was educated in England, and returned home in 1772, when he settled upon a plantation on the Santee River and married. He was elected to fill the seat of his sick father in Congress near the close of 1775, when he voted for and signed the Declaration of Independence. His own ill-health compelled him to leave Congress in the fall of 1776. Near the close of 1779 he embarked for St. Eustatius, with the intention of proceeding to Europe, but the vessel and all on board were never heard of afterwards.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Maine, (search)
arles I. in 1639, when the region was called the province of Maine, in compliment to the Queen, who owned the province of Maine in France. In 1636 Gorges sent over his nephew, William Gorges, as governor of his domain, and he established his government at Saco, where, indeed, there had been an The old jail at York. organized government since 1623, when Robert Gorges was governor under the Plymouth Company. In 1639 Sir Ferdinando was appointed governor-general of New England, and his son Thomas was sent as lieutenant to administer the laws in 1640. He established himself at Agamenticus (now York), when, in 1642, the city called Gorgeana was incorporated. There the first representative government in Maine was established (1640). On the death of Sir Ferdinando (1647) the province of Maine descended to his heirs. and was placed under four jurisdictions. Massachusetts, fearing this sort of dismemberment of the colony might cause the fragments to fall into the hands of the French, m
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Marshall, John, Ll.d. 1755- (search)
Marshall, John, Ll.d. 1755- Jurist; born in Germantown, Fauquier co., Va., Sept. 24, 1755. His father (Thomas) led a regiment, that bore the brunt of battle with Cornwallis near the banks of the Brandywine, Sept. 11, 1777. In early youth John obtained a limited classical education, and at the breaking out of the Revolutionary War he entered the military service as lieutenant. He had formerly led some Virginia militia against Dunmore's troops in the battle of Great Bridge. He, too, was in the battle at the Brandywine; also at Germantown and Monmouth. He left the military service in 1781, and began the practice of law, in which he soon attained eminence. He was in the Virginia convention that ratified the national Constitution, where he distinguished himself by his eloquence and John Marshall. logic. He became also a conspicuous member of the Virginia Assembly. President Washington offered Marshall the post of Attorney-General, but he declined. On the return of Monroe fr
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