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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 3 3 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1 3 3 Browse Search
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. 3 3 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 3 3 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises 3 3 Browse Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. 3 3 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 3 3 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Editorial paragraphs. (search)
Editorial paragraphs. Renewals are still in order, and we are very anxious to hear from a number of subscribers who have not yet sent their $3 for 1880. Please ask your neighbor if he has done so. And we again beg our friends to exert themselves to secure us new subscribers, to recommend to us suitable agents, to whom we can pay liberal commissions, to canvass for our Papers, and to secure the sale of our back volumes to public libraries or private individuals. We have on hand about $4,500 worth of back numbers, which we are anxious to dispose of, and the sale of which would greatly help our treasury just now. old debt is never a pleasant subject of discourse, and we sincerely wish that our friends would take from us all opportunity of ever speaking again of ours. We repeat that our future is assured, if we can only rid ourselves of the debt that has lapped over from ‘76-77. Some of our friends have responded liberally, others have promised to help, and we beg to
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Literary notices. (search)
es, who served in the army and Navy of the United States during the rebellion. There were in the service in all capacities during the war two hundred and sixty-six of the old students, and of these twenty-one were killed or died from wounds or disease contracted in the service. We have said that the book is admirably gotten up (albeit there are, of course, sentiments which we utterly repudiate, and phrases which we would fain hope our friend Major Burrage would modify if he had written in 1880 instead of 1868), and we would rejoice to see such a volume for every college and university in the land. We were very much struck by one statement, as illustrating the odds against which the South fought: Brown University not only continued its regular sessions but, had in attendance more than its average of students during the whole war. This was probably true of other Northern colleges; while nearly every college at the South was closed, and its professors and students enlisted en masse
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The defence of battery Gregg-General Lane's reply to General Harris. (search)
rris. During the war I had no newspaper correspondent at my Headquarters, nor did I write anything about my brigade for publication. Since I have put aside the harness of war and become a quiet and plodding citizen I have, by request and for the sake of truth and justice, written a few articles, in which I endeavored to give only such facts as came under my own observation. Now, unasked, I must again obtrude myself most reluctantly upon the public, as General Harris, in the last No., 1880, of the Southern Historical Society Papers, does my old brigade and myself great injustice. General Harris charges me with having remained utterly silent for fifteen years before coming forward to claim all the honors of the defence of Fort Gregg for my brigade of North Carolinians, to the exclusion of his Mississippians and the gallant Louisiana artillerists. The facts are these: I, as early as the 10th day of April, 1865, at Appomattox Court-house, in my last official report, stated tha
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Annual report of the Executive Committee of the Southern Historical Society, for the year ending October 31st, 1882. (search)
for even a small amount. We recommend that Judge George L. Christian be elected Treasurer and Manager of the Endowment fund of the Society. Finances. We are glad to be able to report that we have been able to fully redeem the assurance made in 1879, that we had made an arrangement by which in future the Papers will be published without risk of indebtedness to the Society. We only regret that (from various causes which we could neither foresee nor avert) our receipts fell off during 1880 and 1881, so that we could not meet our expectation of paying our old debt from surplus receipts. The liberality of the Army and Navy Society of the Confederate States, in Maryland, who voted us in January last a contribution from their treasury of $100--of individual friends who made us timely donations, and especially of our friends in New Orleans, who got up for us the grand meeting (of which we have published full accounts and made full acknowledgment)--has enabled us to pay $1,694.50
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 5: (search)
of such states as should agree to unite on the terms proposed. The imposing fabric of political delusion, which has been erected on the basis of this simple transaction, disappears before the light of historical record. Could the authors of the Constitution have foreseen the perversion to be made of their obvious meaning, it might have been prevented by an easy periphrasis—such as, We, the people of the States hereby united, or something to the same effect. The word people in 1787, as in 1880, was, as it is, a collective noun, employed indiscriminately, either as a unit in such expressions as this people, a free people, etc., or in a distributive sense, as applied to the citizens or inhabitants of one state or country or a number of states or countries. When the convention of the colony of Virginia, in 1774, instructed their delegates to the Congress that was to meet in Philadelphia, to obtain a redress of those grievances, without which the people of America can neither be safe,
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 1: (search)
from the military posts in the South, which enabled the states so quietly to take such possession, was the result of collusion and prearrangement between the Southern leaders and the federal Secretary of War, John B. Floyd of Virginia. It is a sufficient answer to this allegation to state the fact that the absence of troops from these posts, instead of being exceptional, was, and still is, their ordinary condition in time of peace. At the very moment when these sentences are being written (1880), although the army of the United States is twice as large as in 1860; although four years of internal war and a yet longer period of subsequent military occupation of the South have habituated the public to the presence of troops in their midst, to an extent that would formerly have been startling if not offensive; although allegations of continued disaffection on the part of the Southern people have been persistently reiterated, for party purposes—yet it is believed that the forts and arsen
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 22: (search)
ston should of course advise you of what he expects or proposes to do. Let me go and see him, and defer this discussion until I return. It may be proper here to say that I had not doubted that General Johnston was fully in accord with me as to the purpose of defending Richmond, but I was not content with his course to that end. It had not occurred to me that he meditated a retreat which would uncover the capital, nor was it ever suspected until, in reading General Hood's book, published in 1880, the evidence was found that General Johnston, when manner. Before I spoke to him, he said his division had been under arms all day waiting for orders to advance, and that the day was now so far spent that he did not know what was the matter. I afterward learned from General Smith that he had received information from a citizen that the Beaverdam Creek presented an impassable barrier, and that he had thus fortunately been saved from a disaster. Thus ended the offensive-defensive program f
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter XXIV (search)
g. Indeed it could hardly have been imagined that a President of the United States would disregard an honorable obligation incurred by his predecessor; but before I got through with that matter I was enlightened on that point. In the spring of 1880 there arose great public excitement over the case of the one colored cadet then at West Point. This cadet, whose name was Whittaker, had twice been found deficient in studies, and recommended by the academic board for dismissal; but had been saves, in view of pending legislation relative to retirements for age, and of retirements which might be made under the laws then existing. My relief from West Point was effected earlier than General Sherman or I had anticipated. Before the end of 1880 the following correspondence passed between me and the general of the army: (Confidential.) headquarters, army of the United States, Washington, D. C., December 13, 1880. General J. M. Schofield, West Point, New York. dear General: Gene
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Adair, William P., -1880 (search)
Adair, William P., -1880 Born in 1828. He was one of the chiefs of the Cherokee nation, and during the Civil War he commanded a brigade of Indians which had been organized by Gen. Albert Pike on behalf of the Confederacy. This brigade took part in the battle of Pea Ridge, Ark., in 1862. He died in 1880. Adair, William P., -1880 Born in 1828. He was one of the chiefs of the Cherokee nation, and during the Civil War he commanded a brigade of Indians which had been organized by Gen. Albert Pike on behalf of the Confederacy. This brigade took part in the battle of Pea Ridge, Ark., in 1862. He died in 1880.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), African Methodist Episcopal Church, Zion (search)
African Methodist Episcopal Church, Zion A religious sect, founded in New York City in 1796. This organization sprang from a desire of colored members of the Methodist Episcopal Church to have a separate spiritual fellowship that they might be more helpful to each other. The first annual conference, however, was not held until 1821. James Varich was elected bishop in the following year. Until 1880 bishops held office for four years only, but in that year an act was passed making the bishopric a life office. The territory of this Church is divided into seven districts, over each of which there is a bishop. In 1900 it reported as follows: Ministers, 3,155; churches, 2,906; and members, 536,271.
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