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Browsing named entities in Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans). You can also browse the collection for 1840 AD or search for 1840 AD in all documents.

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Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Preface. (search)
il, 1865, as far as Washington, Ga. On his return to Louisiana he wrote the famous epitaph for Albert Sidney Johnston, which is now carved upon the tomb erected by the association of the Army of Tennessee, at New Orleans. Gov. Orin M. Roberts, author of the Texas history, is another who, since the completion of his work, has passed to the reward of an honorable life. He was a native of South Carolina, a descendant of Revolutionary ancestors, a graduate of the university of Alabama, and in 1840 a settler in Texas. As a lawyer at San Augustine he gained distinction; became district judge, and later associate justice of the supreme court. In 860 he was president of the State convention called to decide the future status of the commonwealth. When the war began, he organized a regiment, of which he became colonel, serving until the close of hostilities with a creditable record. He was elected to the United States senate immediately after the war, but was refused his seat; was chief
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), The civil history of the Confederate States (search)
lly contemplated as one of those strangely recurring political blunders which led at last to the disruption of the Union. Fillmore and Webster were both great leaders in effecting and sustaining the settlement of 1850. Their combined strength would have nominated either. By opposition both lost. It is not improbable that either might have been elected, but if defeated the vote would have been close enough to have prevented the disbanding of the great old Whig party which had triumphed in 1840 and 1848. Clay and Webster died with their expiring party. Fillmore's followers rowed away quickly from the sinking ship. Webster's devoted friends, mourning his death and resenting his rejection by the people whom he had served, went sullenly into other affiliations The ruins of this magnificent party furnished the best material of a new hostile, determined organization. Scott's friends, angered by their stinging defeat; the adherents of Fillmore and Webster, thoroughly disgusted with
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical: officers of civil and military organizations. (search)
m he became a leader. He was returned in 1839, 1840, 1842 and 1843. In 1844 he was elected to Conglished a digest of Supreme court decisions. In 1840 he was a member of the celebrated law firm of Shis education at the university of Virginia, in 1840. He was admitted to practice of the law in 184ys and plans for improvements of navigation; in 1840 a military engineer; in 1842 stationed at Fort enant in 1839, and served in the Florida war of 1840. He was then sent to Europe by the government ary 8, 1817. He was graduated at West Point in 1840, and with promotion to a lieutenancy of dragoon, entered the United States military academy in 1840, and being graduated in 1844, was assigned to aabama in 1839. He was defeated by the Whigs in 1840, but was re-elected in 1842, and for three succty in the Kentucky legislature three years, 1838-40, and was a candidate for presidential elector inly to political journalism. In the campaign of 1840 he took an active part. Having established the[1 more...]