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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 2 Browse Search
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2 1 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 1 1 Browse Search
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 1 1 Browse Search
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 1 1 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 14: General Johnston's correspondence. (search)
irtue of that commission from assuming command of troops. I suppose he knew that when he was nominated to be Quartermaster-General. I was chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the nomination with the recommendation that he be confirmed; that it met serious opposition, and that all my power and influence were required to prevent its rejection. In that contest I had no aid from the Senators of Virginia, perhaps because of their want of confidence in Mr. Floyd. If Mason were living, he could tell more of this than I am disposed to say. An officer of the War Department at Washington, when sending Mr. Davis, in September, 1880, copies of General Johnston's letters of March, 1862, said: The official records when published will not add to, but greatly detract from, General Johnston's reputation. He adds: I can hardly conceive how you (Mr. Davis) could so long have borne with the snarly tone of his letters, which he wrote at all times and on all pretexts.
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Facts connected with the concentration of the army of the Mississippi before Shiloh, April, 1862. (search)
Facts connected with the concentration of the army of the Mississippi before Shiloh, April, 1862. By Captain W. M. Polk. To the Editor of the Southern Historical Society Papers: Sir — In the August and September, 1880, number of your journal, under the head of Recollections of General Beauregard's Service in West Tennessee in the Spring of 1862, appears a letter from General Jordan, dated New York, Nov. 2, 1874, in which it is stated that the failure to win Shiloh was mainly due to the delay in getting the army out of Corinth on the 3d of April, 1862, and that that delay was specially due to the action of General Polk's corps. The writer says: General Polk's corps, which was ordered to move with the others at midday, though under arms and ready, was kept at a halt until late in the afternoon, when, it having been reported by Generals Bragg and Hardee that they were unable to move their corps at the hour indicated for them, because General Polk's corps was in the way, you s
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Plymouth Rock. (search)
e, who died in 1746, was a ruling elder in the first church at New Plymouth, and knew some of the Mayflower's passengers, who showed him the rock on which they landed. On hearing that it was about to be covered by the erection of a wharf, the venerable man was so affected that he wept. His tears probably saved that rock from oblivion, a fragment of which was carefully preserved at New Plymouth. Before the revolution the sea had washed up sand Plymouth Rock and monument. and buried the rock. This sand was removed, and in attempting to move the rock it split asunder. The upper half, or shell, was taken to the middle of the village. In 1834 it was removed from the town square to a position in front of Pilgrim Hall, where it was enclosed in an iron railing, lost all its historical interest, and was reduced to a vulgar stone. In September, 1880, the citizens wisely took the fragment back and reunited it to the other portion, when it resumed its original dignity and significance.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
h, of Indiana, nominated by acclamation......June 24, 1880 General Weaver accepts Greenback nomination......July 3, 1880 General Garfield accepts Republican nomination......July 12, 1880 Steamer Dessoug, with Egyptian obelisk Cleopatra's needle, arrives in New York......July 20, 1880 Neal Dow accepts Prohibition nomination......July 20, 1880 General Hancock accepts Democratic nomination......July 29, 1880 International sheep-and-wool show held at Philadelphia, Pa.......September, 1880 Return of the Schwatka Arctic exploration expedition to New York......Sept. 23, 1880 Arctic steamer Gulnare returns to Washington......Oct. 10, 1880 Publication of forged letters on the Chinese question (Morey letters) attributed to General Garfield, addressed to a mythical person, H. L. Morey, of Lynn,......Oct. 20, 1880 Presidential election......Nov. 2, 1880 Lucretia Mott, born 1793, dies in Montgomery county, Pa......Nov. 11, 1880 Electoral votes of States, excep
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Financial and manufacturing. (search)
the Cathedral of San Felipe at Havana, Cuba; also those in the churches of El Monseratte, and Chapel of the Convent of La Merced, of the same city, and some of the noted organs in the principal cities of the United States. Mr. Hamill acquired the art in New York city in 1845, and is thoroughly experienced and skillful in the manufacture of these noble instruments. Ivers & Pond Piano Co. W. H. Ivers began business in Dedham, Mass., in 1876, and the present company was formed in September, 1880. The following year they moved to Cambridgeport, and occupied the building on Albany Street where W. H. C. Badger & Co. are now located. The same year they built a portion of their present factory on the corner of Main and Albany streets, one hundred feet long, fifty feet wide, and five stories high. In 1883 they added to this another section one hundred feet by fifty, six stories high, and in 1886 a final addition seventy feet by sixty, and at the same time raised the first factory
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To Francis G. Shaw. (search)
To Francis G. Shaw. Wayland, September, 1880. I thank you for the Life of General Garfield. I did not think I should ever again take so much interest in a political campaign as I do in his election. I read every word of his speech on Honest money, eight columns long. I am not well posted upon financial questions, and have had rather a distaste for such controversies. But his statements were so very plain that I understood every sentence; and my common sense and my moral sense cordially responded thereto. Everything I have read of his seems to me to have the ring of true metal. I am constantly reminded of the practical good sense and sturdy honesty of Francis Jackson. I was especially pleased with the emphasis he places on the assertion that there was a right and wrong in the War of the Rebellion; I would not have one unnecessary word said that would hurt the feelings or wound the pride of tie South. They acted just as we should have acted if we had been educated under
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
. C., with Johnston. He was in the following engagements: Corinth, Miss.; Murfreesboro, Tenn.; Missionary Ridge, Chickamauga, Atlanta, July 22d; Atlanta, July 28; Jonesboro, Franklin, Tenn.; Nashville, and Bentonville, including all the fights in which his regiment was engaged and many skirmishes. After the close of the war he returned to Georgetown and recommenced his present business of merchandising. He was married, in 1870, to Miss Mary Elizabeth Siau, of Georgetown. She died in September, 1880, leaving four children: Edward Capers, engineer and machinist; George R., engineer and machinist; Edward W., Jr., merchandising in Georgetown, and Mary Elizabeth. He was married the second time, in 1882, to Miss Jessie Gertrude Ham, of Charleston, and two children have blessed this marriage: Birch Swinton and Jessie Gertrude. Lieutenant N. Ingraham Hasell Lieutenant N. Ingraham Hasell, of Charleston, a veteran of the First regiment, South Carolina volunteers, was born at Charlest