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George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade) 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
ervice rules published by the President......May 8, 1883 New York and Brooklyn Bridge opened......May 24, 1883 National exposition of railway appliances opened in Chicago......May 24, 1883 Panic on the New York and Brooklyn Bridge; twelve killed, twenty-nine injured......May 30, 1883 Remains of John Howard Payne, author of Home, sweet home, who died at Tunis, April 1, 1852, are brought, by aid of W. W. Corcoran, of Washington, and interred in Oak Hill cemetery, Washington......June 9, 1883 Verdict of not guilty in the star-route case......June 14, 1883 Celebration of the 333d anniversary of Santa Fe, N. M.......July 2, 1883 Charles H. Stratton (Tom Thumb), born 1838, dies at Middleboro, Mass.......July 15, 1883 General strike of telegraph operators; 1,200 quit work......July 19, 1883 Brig.-Gen. E. O. C. Ord, born 1818, dies at Havana, Cuba......July 22, 1883 Capt. Matthew Webb drowned in swimming the whirlpool below Niagara (body found at Lewiston four day
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), District of Columbia. (search)
itorial government, substituting a temporary board of three commissioners appointed by the President......June 20, 1874 Permanent government of District constituted by Congress, in a board of three commissioners with no local legislative body......June 11, 1878 President Garfield assassinated in the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad station at Washington......July 2, 1881 Remains of John Howard Payne, who died in Tunis, Africa, in 1852, interred in Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington......June 9, 1883 Capstone of the Washington Monument placed (monument 555 feet high)......Dec. 6, 1884 American College of the Roman Catholic Church opened at Washington......Nov. 13, 1889 The Ford Opera-house collapsed during business hours; twenty-one clerks killed and many wounded......June 9, 1893 President Cleveland opens the Pan-American medical congress in Washington......Sept. 5, 1893 Coxey's army invades Washington......April 29, 1894 The new Corcoran Art Gallery opened......Feb
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), Appendix Y (search)
s negative, becomes in its nature positive, to the effect that he has nothing further to offer. What he had to offer has just been quoted. General Howard, who, as has been mentioned, was not before the Committee, and to whom the circular of General Meade was not sent, still remains. To him also I addressed a letter at the same time, covering the points in General Doubleday's letter, and have received from him the following reply:— Headquarters Department of the Platte, Omaha, Neb., June 9, 1883. Colonel George Meade, 309 Walnut Street, Phila. my dear Sir: * * * * * * * * * I will set down the impressions left on my mind by the council during the night of the 2d of July. A question was submitted to us, substantially as to whether we should continue in the position then occupied by the army or withdraw to another. Your father stated to us clearly the existing condition of affairs, and General Butterfield, who was then chief-of-staff, read the question. It was quite freel