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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Burgoyne, Sir John, 1723-1792 (search)
march, early in November, for Charlottesville, Va., under the command of Major-General Phillips. Col. Theodoric Bland was appointed by Washington to superintend the march. It was a dreary winter's journey of 700 miles through New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Marlyland and Virginia. The routes of the two nationalities were sometimes distant from each other, and sometimes the same, until they reached Valley Forge, when they went in the same line until they had crossed the Potomac River. They remained in Virginia until October, 1780, when the danger that the captives might rise upon and overpower their guard caused the British to be removed to Fort Frederick, in Maryland, and the Germans to Winchester, in the Shenandoah Valley. Deaths, desertion, and partial exchanges had then reduced their number to about 2,100. Afterwards they were removed to Lancaster, Pa., and some to East Windsor, Conn. In the course of 1782 they were all dispersed, either by exchange or deser
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing),
Cumberland road
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Cumberland road, A famous thoroughfare authorized by act of Congress, March 29, 1806, which directed the President to appoint three commissioners to lay out a public road from Cumberland, Md., on the Potomac River, to the Ohio River. The act also appropriated $30,000 for the work. This road was continued from time to time until 1838, when it reached Illinois and lost its importance by the development of the railroads. Up to that time the cost of the road for construction and maintenance was $6,821,246. In all, Congress passed sixty acts relating to this road.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Harper's Ferry, (search)
fully 8,000 Virginians. Kentuckians, Alabamians, and South Carolinians were there menacing Washington. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston was then charged with the duty of holding Harper's Ferry. General McClellan was throwing Ohio troops into western Virginia, and Gen. Robert Patterson, in command of the Department of Pennsylvania, was rapidly gathering a force at Chambersburg, Pa., under Gen. W. H. Keim. A part of the Confederates at the Ferry were on Maryland Heights, on the left bank of the Potomac, and against these Patterson marched from Chambersburg with about 15,000 men in June, 1861. Just at this moment commenced Wallace's dash on Romney, which frightened Johnston, and he abandoned Harper's Ferry, and moved up the valley to Winchester. Before leaving he destroyed the great bridge of the Baltimore and Ohio Railway at the Ferry with fire and gunpowder. It was 1.000 feet long. Then he spiked the heavy guns that could not be taken away, and encamped a few miles up the valley. Pa
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Key, Francis Scott 1780- (search)
o give him up, and sent him on board the flag-ship of Admiral Cochrane. Key, then a resident of Georgetown, well known for his affability of manner, was requested to go to Signature of Francis Scott Key. Cochrane as a solicitor for the release of the doctor. He consented, and the President granted him permission. In company with John S. Skinner, a well-known citizen of Baltimore, he went in the cartel-ship Minden, under a flag of truce. They found the British ships at the mouth of the Potomac, preparing to attack Baltimore. Cochrane agreed to release Beanes, Fac-Simile of the original manuscript of the first stanza of the Star-Spangled banner. but refused to allow him or his friends to return then. They were placed on board the Surprise, where they were courteously treated. When the fleet went up Patapsco Bay, they were sent back to the Minden, with a guard of marines to prevent their landing and conveying information to their countrymen. the Minden was anchored withi
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Orleans, Francois Ferdinand Louis Marie, Prince de Joinville 1818- (search)
Orleans, Francois Ferdinand Louis Marie, Prince de Joinville 1818- Son of Louis Philippe, King of the French; born in Neuilly, Aug. 14, 1818; came to the United States in 1861, and with his two nephews, the Count of Paris and the Duke of Chartres, served on the staff of General McClellan for a year, when they returned to France. His son, the Duke of Penthievre, was at the same time a cadet in the Naval Academy at Annapolis. He wrote La guerre d'amerique; Campagne du Potomac, which have been translated into English.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pirates. (search)
xecutions for piracy had taken place; but as there had been many escapes through loop-holes in the law, the act of Congress on that subject was revised and strengthened. In one of the sections of the new act the name of piracy and the punishment of death were extended to the detention or transportation of any free negro or mulatto in any vessel as a slave. On June 28, 1861, the steamer St. Nicholas. Captain Kirwan, that plied between Baltimore and Point Lookout, at the mouth of the Potomac River, left the former place with forty or fifty passengers, including about twenty who passed for mechanics. There were a few women among them—one who professed to be a young Frenchwoman. When, on the following morning, the steamer was near Point Lookout, the Frenchwoman was suddenly transformed into a stout young man, and the twenty mechanics into well-armed Marylanders, who demanded the surrender of the St. Nicholas. Kirwan had no means for resistance, and yielded. The other passengers
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Steuben, Frederick William Augustus, Baron von 1730- (search)
Steuben's monument. ing the duties of your office, yet I wish to make use of this last moment of my public life to signify in the strongest terms my entire approbation of your conduct, and to express my sense of the obligations the public is under to you for your faithful and meritorious services. I beg you will be convinced, my dear sir, that I should rejoice if it could ever be in my power to serve you more essentially than by expressions of regard and affection; but in the mean time I am persuaded you will Steuben's mural monument. not be displeased with this farewell token of my sincere friendship and esteem for you. This is the last letter I shall write while I continue in the service of my country. The hour of my resignation is fixed at twelve to-day; after which I shall become a private citizen on the banks of the Potomac, where I shall be glad to embrace you, and testify the great esteem and consideration with which I am, my dear baron, etc., George Washington.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Trimble, Isaac Ridgeway 1802- (search)
became a civil engineer; was with various railroads as chief engineer till the outbreak of the Civil War, when he took command of the nonuniformed volunteers recruited to defend Baltimore from Northern soldiers. In the same year he was made colonel of engineers in Virginia and directed the construction of the field works and forts at Norfolk; was promoted brigadier-general on finishing that work, and then took charge of the ___location and construction of the batteries at Evansport on the Potomac River. With these batteries he blockaded the river against United States vessels during the winter of 1861-62. He also participated and won distinction in various battles, including Gaines's Mills, Slaughter's Mountain, Second Bull Run, Chancellorsville, etc.; was promoted major-general for gallantry and meritorious services April 23, 1863. During the third day of the action at Gettysburg he lost a leg, was captured, and held a prisoner at Johnson's Island for twenty-one months before being
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wool, John Ellis 1784-1869 (search)
ed to act in conformity to the demands of the crisis, and to assume great responsibilities. Knowing General Scott's disposition, Wool said, I shall probably be the only victim; but, under the circumstances, I am ready to make the sacrifice, if, thereby, the capital may be saved. With the tireless energy of a man of forty years he labored. Ships were chartered, supplies were furnished, and troops were forwarded to Washington with extraordinary despatch, by way of Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac River. The transports were convoyed by armed steamers, to protect them from pirates, and one of them, the Quaker City, was sent to Hampton Roads. To the immensely important work, Fort Monroe, Wool sent gun-carriages, ammunition, and provisions, that it might be held to command the chief waters of Virginia. A dozen State governors applied to him, as the only superior military officer that could be reached, for advice and for munitions of war; and he assisted in arming no less than nine State
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wrecks. (search)
lled or injured......March 14, 1854 Steamer Montreal, from Quebec to Montreal, burned; nearly 250 lives lost, mostly emigrants......June 26, 1857 Steamer Missouri explodes her boilers on the Ohio; 100 lives lost......Jan. 30, 1866 Steamer Magnolia explodes her boilers on the Ohio River; eighty lives lost......March 18, 1868 Steamers United States and America collide in the Ohio River near Warsaw and burn; great loss of life......Dec. 4, 1868 Steamer Wawasset burned in the Potomac River; seventy-five lives lost......Aug. 8, 1873 Steamer Pat Rogers burned on the Ohio; fifty lives lost......July 26, 1874 Steam-yacht Mamie cut in two by steamer Garland on the Detroit River; sixteen lives lost......July 22, 1880 Steamer Victoria capsized on Thames River, Canada; 200 drowned......May 24, 1881 Steamer West Point burned in York River, Va.; nineteen lives lost......Dec. 26, 1881 Steamer Sciota wrecked in collision on the Ohio River; fifty-seven lives lost......Ju