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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 40: social relations and incidents of Cabinet life, 1853-57. (search)
the same forces may make the undulations of the waves, to say nothing of the tides, which are less understood. I did not remind him of the hiatus, and he talked most charmingly of cognate subjects until we reached the house of good old Mr. Hallowell, to whom my little brother, Becket Kempe Howell, was going to school. Mr. Hallowell was a Friend, and was equally esteemed and beloved by the whole community, among whom he had lived from youth to old age. He said, Thy brother is always seekinMr. Hallowell was a Friend, and was equally esteemed and beloved by the whole community, among whom he had lived from youth to old age. He said, Thy brother is always seeking for a royal road to knowledge, and is dull at figures. Professor Henry, seeing the child was mortified, kindly took his hand and said, Send him to me and I will explain the rule of three to him. I gratefully accepted his offer, and he did explain so distinctly that Becket never forgot the lesson or the rule. If great men knew how acceptable their condescension is to the ignorant, they would cultivate the amenities of life. Professor John LeComte was another of the savans who impressed
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 43 (search)
and to mankind. Brigadier-General Strong (himself a kindred spirit) said of him to-day, in a message to his parents: I had but little opportunity to be with him, but I already loved him. No man ever went more gallantly into battle. None knew him but to love him. I parted with Colonel Shaw between six and seven Saturday evening, as he rode forward to his regiment, and he gave me the private letters and papers he had with him to be delivered to his father. Of the other officers, Lieutenant-Colonel Hallowell is severely wounded in the groin; Adjutant James has a wound from a grape-shot in his ankle, and a flesh-wound in his side from a glancing ball or a piece of shell. Captain Pope has had a musket-ball extracted from his shoulder. Captain Appleton is wounded in the thumb, and also has a contusion on his right breast from a hand-grenade. Captain Willard has a wound in the leg, and is doing well. Captain Jones was wounded in the right shoulder. The ball went through and he is doi
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 103 (search)
e, the right up the river. The Fifteenth were in the edge of the woods on the right, a part of the California (Baker's) regiment on their left, touching at right angles our right. Battlefield diagram. One company of the Twentieth, under Capt. Putnam, was deployed as skirmishers on the right in the woods; one, under Capt. Crowninshield, on the left. Capt. Putnam lost an arm in the beginning of the engagement, and was carried to the rear. His company kept their ground well under Lieut. Hallowell. (The Fifteenth had before this, after the arrival of Gen. Baker, fallen back the second time, in good order, and had been placed by Gen. Baker as above mentioned.) The enemy now opened on us from the woods in front with a heavy fire of musketry, which was very effective. They fired low, the balls all going within from one to four feet of the ground. Three companies of the Twentieth were kept in reserve, but on the open ground, exposed to a destructive fire. It was a continued fir
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore), Battle of Olustee. (search)
was led by Colonel Barton, of the Forty-eighth New-York, in command of his brigade, consisting of the Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, and One Hundred and Fifteenth New-York regiments. The column in the centre was made up of the cavalry, under Major Stevens; the mounted infantry, under Colonel Guy V. Henry; the Seventh Connecticut, Colonel Hawley; and the Seventh New-Hampshire, Colonel Abbott. The left was commanded by Colonel Montgomery. under whom were the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts, Colonel Hallowell; the First North-Carolina, Lieutenant-Colonel Reed; and the Eighth United States volunteers, under Colonel Fribley. About six miles from Sanderson, the rebel pickets were driven in by our cavalry, and fell back upon their main forces, posted between swamps about two miles from Olustee, a railroad station ten miles beyond Sanderson. The railroad intersected their position. Their line rested upon the right on an earthwork, very low and slight, and protected by rifle-pits. In their
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 42: (search)
rgot to throw overboard his letter-bag, and among the letters found in that bag, was one written by Davidson, giving instructions to the consignees, in which the following expressions occur: The cargo of the John A. Parks, I shall have certified to, by the British Consul, as the property of British subjects. You will find it a very good cargo, and should command the highest prices. By the time that I had finished the examination of the case, Bartelli announced breakfast, and I invited my Hallowell friend to take a cup of coffee with me, telling him, at the same time, that I should burn his ship. As well as I recollect, he declined the coffee, but I am quite certain that the ship was burned. The carpenter of the Alabama was thrown into ecstasies by this capture. All the other departments of the ship had been kept well supplied, except his own. The paymaster, who was also commissary, the boatswain, the sailmnaker, had all been plundering the enemy quite extensively, but no boards h
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1, Chapter 2: preparation for college; Monmouth and Yarmouth Academies (search)
r showing at the academy. On his advice I acted at once and so persevered that by the close of the term my Greek was abreast of my Latin, which had never been a hard subject to me. Here I formed some associations which proved to be for life. I had the usual experiences of a very ardent nature with strong attachments and a few antipathies, and some quarrels not at all to my credit. The Monmouth term, however, I can now see carried me along so that at its close I was far ahead of my Hallowell class. The following winter there was an excellent teacher, Stephen H. Dean, at what we called the brick schoolhouse, two miles and a half from our home; so, with my mother's strong approval, I went there. During this season I boarded part of the time on the north road with a Mr. Henry Foster, always returning home for Saturday and Sunday. It was at this school that I made a very fair review of all the studies, excepting the foreign languages, essential for a Bowdoin examination. A
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 12: American Anti-slavery Society.—1833. (search)
laces, to go forward in paths of improvement, and organize themselves into moral and benevolent associations. . . . An Auxiliary Society has been formed in the Theological P. 43. Seminary at Andover. A society, based upon the same principles, has also been formed in Hudson College, Ohio, under the auspices of the President and Professors; and also a kindred association in Lynn, Massachusetts. Other societies, it is expected, will be speedily organized in Portland, Providence, Bath, Hallowell, New Haven, and other places. The light which has burst forth so auspiciously in the West, is the harbinger of a mighty victory. At this very time, according to Benton (Thirty years view, 1.341), there was no sign of a slavery agitation. Much greater reason had Mr. Garrison to be elated and strengthened by the extraordinary events of the year now drawing to a close. The persecution and spirited defence of Miss Crandall, in which the princely liberality of Arthur Tappan, the rare m
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 13: Marriage.—shall the Liberator die?—George Thompson.—1834. (search)
S. Society, p. 47). Nevertheless, he did not entirely escape that species of warm reception with which the Enquirer menaced him in case he should cross the Potomac. His windows were broken in Augusta, Maine, where a State Anti-Slavery London Abolitionist, 1.152; Lib. 4.174. Convention was in progress; and a committee of citizens requested him to leave town immediately under pain of Lib. 4.175. being mobbed if he reentered the Convention. Disturbers followed him from Augusta to Hallowell, but Lib. 5.4. were overawed. At Concord, New Hampshire, he was interrupted with missiles while addressing a ladies' meeting. At Lowell, Mass., on his second visit, in the Town Hall, a brickbat thrown from without through the Lib. 4.194; Cowley's History of Lowell, p. 82, and Reminiscences of J. C. Ayer, p. 154. window narrowly escaped his head, and, in spite of the manliness of the selectmen, a meeting the next evening was abandoned in the certainty of fresh and deadly assaults.
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 3: (search)
our countrymen, who have just returned from France and Germany. But not only Americans, but Englishmen go every day to the Continent, without molestation. I pray you, therefore, be perfectly easy, for I shall run no risk .... We left Liverpool on the 17th, and arrived here on the 25th, and are just settled in our respective lodgings, and ready to present our letters of introduction. Journal. May 30.—To-day I dined at Mr. William Vaughan's, the brother of Mr. Benjamin Vaughan, of Hallowell, and of Mr. John Vaughan, of Philadelphia, and as actively kind and benevolent as either of them. Dr. Rees, the editor of the Cyclopaedia, was there, and, though now past seventy, and oppressed with the hydrothorax, he still retains so much of the vigor and vivacity of youth, that I think he may yet live to complete the great work he has undertaken. He is a specimen, in excellent preservation, of the men of letters of the last century, and is full of stories in relation to them, which ar
Col. John M. Harrell, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 11: (search)
gain enter the service, and after the reconstruction he was elected United States senator. McRae's battalion, first organized with eight companies, and increased to a regiment, was commanded by Col. Dandridge McRae, of Searcy; Lieut.-Col. J. M. Hobbs, of Benton county; Maj. L. L. Thompson; James Hobbs was quartermaster; Dr. Bourland, of Van Buren, surgeon. The captains were Morris Hobbs; J. B. Cooper, of Benton county; S. B. Buchanan, of Washington county; Caleb Davis, of Pope county; Hallowell, of Yell county; Knott, of Franklin county, and Douglas, of Benton county. The battalion fought at Oak Hills and Elkhorn; was transferred to the east of the Mississippi, and participated in the battles of Farmington, Iuka, Corinth, Baker's Creek, and in the siege of Vicksburg. Exchanged at Vicksburg, it was reorganized west of the Mississippi, and with Gause's, Glenn's, Hart's and Morgan's regiments, formed a brigade commanded by McRae, promoted to brigadier-general. Lieutenant-Colonel
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