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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 2 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 2 2 Browse Search
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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 3: Missouri, Louisiana, and California. 1850-1855. (search)
own and Second-Lieutenant James A. Hardie. New horses had just been purchased for the battery, and we were preparing for work, when the mail brought the orders announcing the passage of the bill increasing the Commissary Department by four captains, to which were promoted Captains Shiras, Blair, Sherman, and Bowen. I was ordered to take post at St. Louis, and to relieve Captain A. J. Smith, First Dragoons, who had been acting in that capacity for some months. My commission bore date September 27, 1850. I proceeded forthwith to the city, relieved Captain Smith, and entered on the discharge of the duties of the office. Colonel N. S. Clarke, Sixth Infantry, commanded the department; Major D. C. Buell was adjutant-general, and Captain W. S. Hancock was regimental quartermaster; Colonel Thomas Swords was the depot quartermaster, and we had our offices in the same building, on the corner of Washington Avenue and Second. Subsequently Major S. Van Vliet relieved Colonel Swords. I rema
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Silver Grays, (search)
Silver Grays, A term applied to the Whigs of New York who supported the administration of President Fillmore, and regarded the slavery question settled by the compromise of 1850. A convention of the administration was held at Syracuse, Sept. 27, 1850, to secure a vindication of the President's policy, etc. The convention resulted in an emphatic majority against the administration; whereupon the chairman, Mr. Granger, and several other administration men, left the convention; as they were elderly men, they, with their following, were immediately dubbed Silver Grays.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Oregon, (search)
Oregon authorities, tried at Oregon City, condemned, and executed......June 18, 1850 Schooner Samuel Roberts, with an exploring party formed in San Francisco to discover the mouth of the Klamath River, enters the Umpqua River......Aug. 6, 1850 Oregon donation act; Congress grants each missionary station then occupied 640 acres of land, with the improvements. To each white settler, 640 acres. To each emigrant settling in Oregon between Dec. 1, 1850, and Dec. 1, 1853, 160 acres......Sept. 27, 1850 Maj. Philip Kearny fights the Indians at Rogue River......June 23, 1851 A party of twenty-three, under T'Vault, set out to explore the interior, Aug. 24, 1851. Sept. 1 all but nine turn back, at the Rogue River, about 50 miles from the ocean. These reach the headquarters of the Coquille, Sept. 9; descend it, are attacked, and five of the nine killed by Indians......Sept. 14, 1851 Yam Hill River bridge, the first in the country, constructed at Lafayette......1851 Gold disco
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 3 (search)
aptain, 18th Mass. Infantry, Aug. 20, 1861. Major, Oct. 15, 1863. Mustered out, Sept. 2, 1864. Brevet Lieut. Colonel, U. S. Volunteers, Mar. 13, 1865. Wheatland, George, Jr. Captain, 48th Infantry, M. V. M., in service of the U. S., Sept. 19, 1862. Major, Dec. 8, 1862. Mustered out, Sept. 3, 1863. Wheelock, Joseph H. Cadet, U. S. Military Academy, July 1, 1846, to July 1, 1850. Brevet Second Lieutenant, 3d U. S. Artillery, July 1, 1850. Second Lieutenant, 4th Artillery, Sept. 27, 1850. First Lieutenant, Jan. 13, 1856. Resigned, Mar. 31, 1857. Colonel, 7th Mass. Infantry, Nov. 20, 1861. Resigned, Jan. 31, 1862. Died at Washington, D. C., Apr., 1862. Wheldon, Charles M. Acting Lieut. Colonel, 31st Mass. Infantry, Nov. 25, 1861. Discharged, Dec. 23, 1862. Not commissioned by the Governor of Massachusetts. White, Edward E. First Lieutenant, Regimental Quartermaster, 39th Mass. Infantry, Aug. 25, 1862. Brevet Captain and Major, U. S. Volunteers, Mar. 13,
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 7 (search)
n Massachusetts. Major, Additional Paymaster, U. S. Volunteers, Nov. 26, 1862. Died, July 12, 1863. Wheeler, Willard Daniels. Born in Massachusetts. Major, Additional Paymaster, U. S. Volunteers, Mar. 18, 1864. Mustered out, Nov. 1, 1865. Died at Ouray, Col., Jan. 21, 1885. Wheelock, Joseph H. Born in Massachusetts. Cadet, U. S Military Academy, July 1, 1846, to July 1, 1850. Brevet Second Lieutenant, 3d U. S. Artillery, July 1, 1850. Second Lieutenant, 4th Artillery, Sept. 27, 1850. First Lieutenant, Jan. 13, 1856. Resigned, Mar. 31, 1857. Colonel, 7th Mass. Infantry, Nov. 20, 1861. See Massachusetts Field Officers. Whipple, Amiel weeks. See General Officers. Whipple, Henry Carlomen. Born in Massachusetts. First Lieutenant, 2d Mich. Cavalry, Sept. 2, 1861. Adjutant, Apr. 15, 1863. Captain and Assistant Adj. General, U. S. Volunteers, Sept. 19, 1863. Resigned, Apr. 26, 1865. Died, Aug. 6, 1883. Whitcomb, John R. Born in Massachusetts. Capta