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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 4. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 1 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 6. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 1 1 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
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Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order 1 1 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 4. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Gen. Lee's strength and losses at Gettysburg. (search)
utant-General, and Col. C. S. Venable, his Military Secretary. The former places the Confederate strength of all arms on that battle-field at 61,000; the latter at 55,000. 3. Out of the 68,352 men, which constituted the entire force for duty in the Department of Northern Virginia, at the end of May, according to the Confederate return, published by Swinton, Gen. Lee could hardly have taken over 60,000 with him. 4. Gen. Early's careful estimate. (See his report, Southern Magazine, September and October, 1872.) 5: The number of regiments on each side as given by Dr. Bates himself. All these go to show that Gen. Lee moved northward with about 60,000 men, and that instead of being weakened by train guards or by straggling to the extent of 25 per cent., between the Potomac and Gettysburg, as Dr. Bates imagines, he brought almost his entire force to the latter point. Hoping will carefully examine the original sources of information in regard to the matters treated by D
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 6. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Relative numbers at Gettysburg. (search)
f the army, reached Pensylvania with at least as many men present for duty as when it crossed the Rapidan. Early's division had some of the hardest marching before it reached the Potomac, and therefore it can be taken as a fair standard of comparison. Thanks to General Early we have the elements for that comparison. On the 31st of May his division, which was the smallest but two of the army, numbered 6,943 officers and men present for duty; on the 20th of June (see Southern Magazine, September, 1872, page 318, foot-note) this figure has dwindled down to 5,638. The difference is 1,305, but that decrease must be ascribed altogether to the three above mentioned causes, viz: first, the detachment of three regiments, left at or about Winchester, at least 850; second, the loss in battle at Winchester, 162; third, therefore the reduction by sickness, straggling and desertion is only 293, unless the division should have received individual accessions between the 1st and the 20th of June.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sumner, Charles 1811- (search)
e annexation of Santo Domingo to the United States brought him into collision with President Grant, and led to Sumner's removal from the chairmanship of the committee on foreign relations in March, 1870. He afterwards separated from the Republican party, and supported (1872) for the Presidency the nominee of the Liberal Republicans and Democratic party—Horace Greeley. He opposed General Grant's renomination, and at a convention of Democrats and Liberal Republicans held at Worcester in September, 1872, he was nominated for governor of Massachusetts. He was then in England in search of health, and declined. He returned home and to the Senate late in 1872, and in the course of the session he introduced an unpopular bill, which drew from the Massachusetts legislature in 1873 a vote of censure. It was to remove from the regimental colors of the army and from the army register the names of battles won by Union troops in the Civil War. The vote of censure was rescinded in 1874, a short
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
ut failed to go off. An instance of the moral effect of torpedoes was shown in the Franco-German war, where the French navy was completely paralyzed by the presence of torpedoes thickly studded along the German coast, and not a single engagement between the fleet in German waters and the sea-coast defenses is recorded. Published information on the subject of the torpedo trials may be found in the Report of the Austrian Commission, 1868; Army and Navy journal, 1874; Revue maritime, September, 1872, January, 1873: Captain Harvey's Treatise on the management of the sea-torpedo, London, 1871; Sarrepont's Les Torpilles, etc. 2. (Military.) A mine or countermine to destroy a work, a storming column, or a working party. In this sense a petard may be considered as a torpedo. Torpedoes for land defense are usually shells of small caliber, 6 and 12 pounders, provided with a percussion or friction device which causes an explosion when the ground over the torpedo is stepped on. Somet
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order, Boston events. (search)
, Nov., 1852 Small-pox prevalent in town, Nov., 1633 Forty persons died during the year , 1666 Very fatal in town and country, Nov., 1698 Carried off many inhabitants, 1702 Inoculation with kine-pox, by Dr. Boylston, May, 1721 Red flags denote its presence, May, 1751 Inoculation forbidden by the Governor, Jan., 1764 Rages in town, the Court removed to Concord, Nov., 1792 10,000 school children vaccinated in three months, 1824 Created great alarm in Boston, Sept., 1872 Hospital built at Pine Island, Oct., 1872 Hospital at Pine Island, burned, Dec., 1872 Hospital prepared at Marcellus street Almshouse, Jan., 1873 Societies The Boston Marine incorporated, 1754 The Massachusetts Charitable, instituted, 1760 The Anti-Tea Drinking, formed, 1770 Academy of Arts and Sciences, incorporated, 1780 Massachusetts Medical, incorporated, 1781 Of Cincinnati, formed at Albany, 1783 Massachusetts Horticultural, instituted, 1791 Mechan