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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 90 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 64 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 56 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore) 44 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 40 0 Browse Search
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army 30 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: September 23, 1861., [Electronic resource] 29 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 26 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore) 20 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 20 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kearny, Stephen Watts 1794-1847 (search)
der the eye and approval of the commodore: Fremont throughout the California war was strictly anon entered into on the 13th inst. by Lieutenant-Colonel Fremont with the leaders of the CaliforniansCalifornia. The motives which actuated Colonel Fremont in electing to pursue the course which hetion of them had subsided. Should Lieutenant-Colonel Fremont, who has the option to return or remt by the President's directions it was at Colonel Fremont's option whether he would remain in Califollowing letter: General Kearny to Colonel Fremont. headquarters, 10th Military Deptartment. coming from myself. A few weeks later Colonel Fremont received orders from General Kearny to rearny, Commanding, etc. To this request Colonel Fremont received the following reply: Geneet out for the United States, attended by Colonel Fremont, who was treated, however, with deliberat can be paid at the earliest date. Lieutenant-Colonel Fremont having performed the above duty, wil[13 more...]
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lexington (search)
,000. Then Price cut off the communication of the garrison with the town, their chief source of water supply. The next day he took possession of the town, closed up the garrison, and began a vigorous siege. For seventy-two hours Mulligan and his little band sustained it, amid burning sun-heat by day and suffocating smoke at all times, until ammunition and provisions were exhausted, and on the morning of the 20th he was compelled to surrender. The loss of this post was severely felt, and Fremont, resolving to retrieve it, at once put in motion 20,000 men to drive Price and his followers out of Missouri. The National loss in men was forty killed and 120 wounded; the Confederates lost twenty-five killed and seventy-five wounded. Mulligan and his officers were held prisoners of war; the men were paroled. The spoils were six cannon, two mortars, 3,000 muskets, 750 horses, wagons, teams, etc., and $100,000 worth of commissary stores. A week before the arrival of Mulligan at Lexingt
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), California (search)
d Pio Poco becomes governor in his stead......Feb. 21, 1845 Colonel Fremont on a third expedition obtains permission from Mexico, through o continue his explorations of the coast......Jan. 27, 1846 Colonel Fremont, in Oregon, receives orders to watch the Mexican and British rand bear and the words, California republic ......June 14, 1846 Fremont assumes command of insurgents at Sonoma......July 5, 1846 Starshe bear flag, July 9, and over Sutter's Fort......July 11, 1846 Fremont embarks in the schooner Cyane, commodore Dupont, and occupies Sa.July 31, 1846 Americans, under Com. Robert F. Stockton and Colonel Fremont, capture Los Angeles......Aug. 13, 1846 First number of an Los Angeles regained by the Americans......Jan. 10, 1847 Colonel Fremont assumes the civil government under commission from Commodore S, issues a proclamation from Monterey as governor, and directs Colonel Fremont to deliver in person, at Monterey, all public documents in his
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wyoming, (search)
ty wagons, from the Platte through South Pass to the Green River. At the junction of Lead Creek he builds a fort......1832 William Sublette and Robert Campbell erect a fort on Laramie Fork, which they name Fort William, since Fort Laramie.......1834 First emigrant train for Oregon and California crosses Wyoming......1841 Fort Bridger erected on Green River by James Bridger, a famous trapper......1842 Col. J. C. Fremont, with a government exploring expedition, ascends and names Fremont's Peak......1842 Mormon pioneers, led by Brigham Young, pass Fort Laramie on their way to Great Salt Lake through South Pass......June 1, 1847 Part of Wyoming is included in the territory acquired by the United States from Mexico by the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo......Feb. 2, 1848 Fort Laramie transferred to the United States......1849 Fort Bridger sold for $8,000 to the Mormons......1853 Sioux Indian war begins; Lieutenant Grattan and twenty-eight men sent from Fort Laramie