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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 62 (search)
for times of peace, and are unsuited to the government of the army we now have, and the war in which we are now engaged. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, H. W. Halleck, General-in-Chief. Exhibit no. 1--a copy in cipher. Berkeley, Va., August 4--12 M. Major-General Halleck, Commander-in-Chief: Your telegram of last evening is received. I must confess that it has caused me the greatest pain I ever experienced, for I am convinced that the order to withdraw this army to Aest disaster from my country. Geo. B. Mcclellan, Major-General. official copy. Headquarters, army, Washington, D. C., November 23, 1862. Exhibit no. 2. Washington, August 6, 1862. Major-General George B. McClellan, Commanding, etc., Berkeley, Va.: General: Your telegram of yesterday was received this morning, and I immediately telegraphed a brief reply, promising to write you more fully by mail. You, General, certainly could not have been more pained at receiving my order than I w
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Berkeley, Sir William, (search)
all be hanged in half an hour. Drummond replied, with dignity. I expect no mercy from you. I have followed the lead of my conscience, and done what I might to free my country from oppression. He was condemned at one o'clock and hanged at four; and his brave wife, Sarah, was denounced as a traitor and banished, with her children, to the wilderness, there to subsist on the bounty of friends. When these things were brought to the notice of the profligate monarch, even he was disgusted with Berkeley's cruelties, and said, The old fool has taken more lives in that naked country than I have taken for the murder of my father; and Berkeley was ordered to desist. But he continued to fine and imprison the followers of Bacon until he was recalled in the spring of 1677, and went to England with the returning fleet of Sir John Berry. The colonists fired great guns and lighted bonfires in token of their joy at his departure. In England his cruelties were severely censured, and he died (July
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Harrison, Benjamin 1740-1791 (search)
Harrison, Benjamin 1740-1791 Signer of the Declaration of Independence; born in Berkeley, Va., in 1740; was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1764, and soon became a leader among the patriots of the day. An attempt to bribe him to support the Stamp Act by offering him a seat in the council excited his indignation, though he had opposed Henry's resolutions on the subject. He was a member of various associations and committees, and was a delegate to the first Colonial CongreBurgesses, and was chosen its speaker. This post he held until 1782, when he was elected governor of the State, and was twice re-elected. Governor Harrison did not like the national Constitution, and voted against it in convention. He died in Berkeley, in April, 1791. Harrison, Benjamin Twenty-third President of the United States, from 1889 to 1893; Republican; born in North Bend, O., Aug. 20, 1833; grandson of William Henry Harrison, the ninth President of the United States, and gr
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Harrison, William Henry 1773-1812 (search)
Harrison, William Henry 1773-1812 Ninth President of the United States; in 1841; Whig; born in Berkeley, Charles City co., Va., Feb. 9, 1773; was a son of Benjamin Harrison, governor of Virginia, and was educated at Hampden-Sidney College. He began preparations for the profession of medicine, but soon abandoned it for a military life. In 1791 Washington commissioned him an ensign. Made a lieutenant in 1792, he afterwards became an efficient aide to General Wayne, and with him went through the campaign in Ohio, in 1794. After the treaty of Greenville (1794), he was placed in command of Fort Washington, on the site of Cincinnati, and was promoted to captain. While on duty at North Bend, he was married to Anna, daughter of Judge Symmes, an extensive land-owner there. In 1797 he was appointed secretary of the Northwest Territory, and left the army. In 1799 he became a delegate to Congress, and was made the first governor of Indian Territory in 1801. That office he held until
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), California (search)
e Valley and the Mariposa Big-tree grove to California for public use, resort, and recreation; to be inalienable......June 30, 1864 California ratifies the constitutional amendment abolishing slavery......Dec. 18, 1865 University opened at Berkeley, near San Francisco......Sept. 23, 1869 Riot in Los Angeles; fifteen Chinamen hanged and six shot by a mob......Oct. 24, 1871 Gen. E. R. S. Canby and Commissioner Thomas, while negotiating under a flag of truce for the removal of the Modoc Indians to a reservation, are massacred by Captain Jack and his warriors in the lava beds near Fort Klamath......April 11, 1873 University of California permanently located at Berkeley......July 16, 1873 Assassins are captured June 1, tried, and Captain Jack and two associates are hanged......Oct. 3, 1873 Central Pacific Railroad attempts to obtain from Congress a grant of Goat Island, the property of the United States, on San Francisco Bay, opposite Oakland; an independent party in op
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Colony of Virginia, (search)
settlers, who came before Sir Thomas Gates (1611), and their posterity were to be exempt from personal military service; the burgesses were not to be molested in going to, coming from, or during the sessions of the Assembly; every private planter's lands were to be surveyed and their bounds recorded; monthly courts were to be held by special commissioners at Elizabeth City, at the mouth of the James, and at Charles City, for the accommodation of more distant plantations; the price of Berkeley, Virginia, near Harrison's Landing. corn was to be unrestricted; in every parish was to be a public granary, to which each planter was to bring yearly a bushel of corn to be disposed of for public use by a vote of the freemen, and if not disposed of to be returned to the owner; every settler was to be compelled to cultivate corn enough for his family; all trade in corn with the Indians was prohibited; every freeman was to fence in a garden of a quarter of an acre for the planting of grape-vines,
The Daily Dispatch: July 3, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
, which were embarked in the vicinity of Shirley. It is stated further that the banks of the river were lined with stragglers yesterday, and that they could be seen to rush eagerly to the transports as fast as they would reach the wharf. Four of the fugitives rushed into a small boat, and paddling out into the stream, were drifted to the Chesterfield shore. These were captured, and expected to reach Petersburg last evening. Several hundred Federal army wagons were seen at Berkeley, Charles City county, yesterday morning early, by citizens of Prince George. They communicated with a small tug lying out in the stream, but none of them were embarked. The wagons were protected by Federal cavalry, and known to be empty from the rattling noise which they caused when they were driven up. A detachment of Stuart's cavalry could easily bag all this valuable game. Parties from Drewry's Bluff, who arrived here last night, report heavy firing of cannon, and rapid discharges of musket
The Daily Dispatch: July 4, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
poor creature was famished, had on nothing in the shape of wearing apparel save a shirt, and declared his utter aversion to ever again taking up arms against the Southern Confederacy. This fugitive stated that thousands would have cheerfully joined him in his voyage, but for the fear of meeting a watery grave, and we do not doubt that he spoke the truth. We learn from a gentleman who resides in Prince George, that the wagon train to which we referred yesterday as being at Berkeley, in Charles City county, on the bank of the river, was greatly augmented. Tuesday afternoon and yesterday. These wagons now line the banks of the river for miles and number several hundred. It is supposed that they have been driven there to secure them from capture, but we are of the opinion that a body of Confederate cavalry could dash down and secure the horses, if not the wagons. There are no gunboats lying near; or there were none yesterday, all being occupied higher up the river, in the more i
The Daily Dispatch: December 22, 1865., [Electronic resource], The last Confederate prisoner. (search)
ion occurred, which is creditable to both parties: Mr. Bradley.--All I state, if the Court please, I state as if I were under oath. I would make no sort of difference whether I was or was not sworn as to the truth of anything I might say. The Court.--I do not believe it would, Mr. Bradley. Virginia and West Virginia. In the Senate, Mr. Wade, from the Committee on Territories, has reported favorably a bill giving the consent of Congress to the annexation of the counties of Berkeley and Jefferson, Va., to the State of West Virginia. A very appropriate committee for the purpose. Negro suffrage in the District. Mr. Morrill, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, has reported favorably on the bill to regulate the elective franchise in the District, with certain amendments, including one prescribing ability to read and write as a qualification for voting: a new section imposes a fine of five thousand dollars and imprisonment not exceeding one year fo