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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gordon, George Henry 1825-1886 (search)
Gordon, George Henry 1825-1886 Military officer; born in Charlestown, Mass., July 19, 1825; graduated at the United States. Military Academy in 1846; served in the war with Mexico, participating in the siege of Vera Cruz, the actions of Cerro Gordo, Contreras, and Chapultepec, and the capture of the city of Mexico. During the Civil War his bravery was conspicuous in many battles. He received the brevet of major-general of volunteers in April, 1865. He was the author of The army of Virginia from Cedar Mountain to Alexandria; A War diary; and From. Brook to Cedar Mountain. He died in Framingham, Mass., Aug. 30, 1886.
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 20: (search)
ring most of the hours we are awake. The long and the short of the matter is, that if you were here you would not know us for the humdrum people that have heretofore lived in Park Street and Tremont Street, except that you would find us just as glad to see you as ever. In the summer of 1825 a sorrow had come to him, of a kind he had not felt before, through the death of his second little daughter, only a few weeks old. He refers to it thus in a letter to his friend Daveis:— July 19, 1825. Sorrow has come close upon gladness with us. God has taken away from our hopes the little daughter he had just given us . . . . It is a great disappointment; much greater than I had thought it could be. I did not think so many hopes could so soon have gathered and rested on one so young and frail. But the imagination is as busy as the memory; and though there may be fewer recollections treasured up for future regrets, there is enough of defeated hope to make much present sorrow. Bu
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 2 (search)
un, Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, Glendale, Malvern Hill, and Chantilly. Brig. General, U. S. Volunteers, Sept. 26, 1862. Appointment expired Mar. 4, 1863. Died at Boston, Mass., July 9, 1874. Crane, Charles Henry. Born at Newport, R. I., July 19, 1825. Appointed from Massachusetts. Acting Assistant Surgeon, U. S. Army, Nov., 1847. First Lieutenant, Assistant Surgeon, Feb. 14, 1848. Major, Surgeon, May 21, 1861. Medical Director, Department of Key West, Fla., Jan. to June, 1862. Medical Dlry division, department of the Gulf. Mustered out of volunteer service, Nov. 26, 1864. Brevet Brig. General and Maj. General, U. S. Volunteers, Mar. 13, 1865. Resigned, Mar. 20, 1865. Gordon, George Henry. Born at Charlestown, Mass., July 19, 1825. Cadet, U. S. Military Academy, July 1, 1842, to July 1, 1846. Brevet Second Lieutenant, Mounted Rifles, July 1, 1846. Brevet First Lieutenant, Apr. 18, 1847. Second Lieutenant, Jan. 8, 1848. First Lieutenant, Aug. 30, 1853. Resigned, Oct.
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 9 (search)
n, m. Joseph Weeks, of Camb., 5 Jan. 1778. Polly, d. 12 Oct. 1790, a. 20 mos. Mary, of Camb., m. Roger Adams, of Newton, 14 Oct. 1805. Jonathan F., m. Ruthy Frost, 9 Apr. 1809. Lydia, of W. Camb., m. Samuel Skilton of Chas., 16 Jan. 1814. Lydia, m. Thomas H. Teel, 25 Aug., 1814. Lucetta, m. Samuel Hutchinson, of Chas., 14 Dec. 1817. Mary, m. Thomas Leach, 22 Apr. 1821. Samuel W., m. Susan Ann Adams, 24 Oct. 1838. Bowen, m. Mehitable Locke, 6 June, 1833 (Locke Book, 286). Levi, d. 19 July, 1825, a. 19 yrs. Hannah, d. 11 July, 1839, a. 25. Mary Eliza, d. 16 Sept. 1841, a. 10. Walter, d. (at Boston) 6 Feb. 1848, a. 25. Rust, Wallis (of Boston), m. Wid. Rebecca Cutter, 29 Oct. 1797. Had Adeline, m. John Jarvis, 6 Jan. 1822; and others. See Cutter (par. 37). S Sanderson, Benjamin L., m. Mary Cooke, 26 Oct. 1823. Col. Benjamin L. d. 16 Aug. 1840, a. 39. Saunders, Widow, d. at Capt. Adams's, 19 Apr. 1763, a. 85. Lucy, m. Samuel Estabrook, 30 Apr. 1803. Sawtell, H