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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Georgia, (search)
rnment renewed by British under Colonel Prevost......March 4, 1779 Governor Wright returns to Georgia......July 13, 1779 As British invasion prevented carrying the constitution into effect, the supreme executive council is clothed with plenary power and elects John Wereat president......Aug. 6, 1779 Count d'estaing, with fleet of thirty-three war-vessels, surprises and captures part of British fleet under Sir James Wallace, commanding Tybee station......Sept. 3, 1779 Armies of Lincoln and D'Estaing besiege Savannah......Sept. 23, 1779 Captain French with 111 British, and five vessels with crews and ammunition, frightened by bonfires and voices, surrender to Col. John White of Georgia line and six Americans......Oct. 1, 1779 Americans and French attack Savannah; lose 1,100 killed and wounded out of 4,000 and abandon siege, bearing away Count Pulaski, mortally wounded......Oct. 9, 1779 A dissatisfied faction elects George Walton governor, appoints executive counci
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 50: last months of the Civil War.—Chase and Taney, chief-justices.—the first colored attorney in the supreme court —reciprocity with Canada.—the New Jersey monopoly.— retaliation in war.—reconstruction.—debate on Louisiana.—Lincoln and Sumner.—visit to Richmond.—the president's death by assassination.—Sumner's eulogy upon him. —President Johnson; his method of reconstruction.—Sumner's protests against race distinctions.—death of friends. —French visitors and correspondents.—1864-1865. (search)
s praise are very welcomely received. Robert T. Lincoln wrote, July 5:— I desire to assuresay. Isaac N. Arnold, the biographer of Mr. Lincoln, wrote, June 8:— I have just finishedive, and grand eulogy upon our great and good Lincoln. As one of his humble friends—one who, whileState before secession, thus excluding, as Mr. Lincoln had done, the colored people from the quali Wade ascribed the present difficulty to President Lincoln's course on the reconstruction bill in 1omes from the Blairs. They presented it to Mr. Lincoln shortly before his death, and he spoke withould have prevented Chase's nomination. President Lincoln selected Hale for the mission to Spain] nkind. To this end I spoke in my eulogy of Mr. Lincoln, and I find from all parts of the country aizen and member of the electoral college to Mr. Lincoln in 1864. Shortly before Mr. Everett's deats immediately after the assassination of President Lincoln; and the public journals, in the same nu[5 more...
The Daily Dispatch: June 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 11 (search)
amestown, will show their hatred of tyranny and loyalty to the South and its institutions, when the opportunity offers. Lincoln and his miscreant crew will soon secure for themselves the "hospitable graves" now preparing for them, if they can do itbeneath the age for military service, and those in the sere and yellow loaf of life. Our citizens then of all ages hate Lincoln and his assisting devils, and are resolutely determined to sink or swith in support of their rights and liberties, and sn to make your invitation given them some time since of "hospitable graves" not an unmeaning one. That the cause of Lincoln is doomed to destruction, and that the curse of Heaven rests upon it, is apparent from the fact that the professed heralan utter disregard of decency and shame, equalled only by pirates upon the high seas, have signally marked the course of Lincoln and his party from the beginning to the present time. Can such a cause succeed? No, never; As sure as there is a God i
The Daily Dispatch: June 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
Double bombs. --A correspondent of the Governor, writing from Tennessee, suggests the making of a twin bomb--one of which to contain powder, &c., and the other camphene. It is thought that by this arrangement that when the bomb bursts it will ignite the camphene and produce a sheet of flame twenty feet square. The Governor's correspondent thinks that if such a bomb could be thrown with equal precision, it would be far more fatal and destructive especially in attacking forts, ships, &c. Speaking of bombs reminds us to say that one of Lincoln's ten- inch lumps of union cement thrown from the Monticello, on the 21st inst., at the Manchester Artillery, at Sewell's Point, can now be seen at the Dispatch office. It weighs 95 lbs.
The Daily Dispatch: June 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 11 (search)
The New York Board of Brokers have presented a silver-mounted pistol to F. E. Brownell, for "avenging" the death of Col. Ellsworth. One of the biggest of the columbiads at Fort Monroe is bearing directly upon the house of ex- President Tyler. Wm. Angus, a printer, of the N. Y. Second Regiment, accidently shot and killed himself near Washington, on Monday. Mr. Charles J. Faulkner, our minister at Paris, had his final audience with the Emperor on the 13th. W. P. Wood, of New York, has been appointed Commissioner of Public Buildings at Washington, vice J. B. Blake, resigned. A revolt broke out in the penitentiary at Jefferson City, Mo., on Monday night, 27th inst., during which four prisoners escaped. Rev. Mr. Webber, of Worcester, Mass., has enlisted as a common soldier. Robert T. Lincoln, the President's son, has arrived in Washington.
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