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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 506 506 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 279 279 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 141 141 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition. 64 64 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8 55 55 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition. 43 43 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. 43 43 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10 34 34 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition. 32 32 Browse Search
John Beatty, The Citizen-Soldier; or, Memoirs of a Volunteer 29 29 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Colonial history. (search)
he blood of Massachusetts was destined to flow freely on the field of battle for the same cause; the streams were first opened beneath the gallows. See a favorable view of Peters m Upham's Second Century Lecture at Salem, 13—27, and Postscript. So, too, Felt's Annals of Salem, 132—151. Bentley, in Mass. Hist. Coll. VI. 250—254. London Monthly Repository, XIV. 525 and 602. Opposite opinions in nearly all the royalist writers The regicides, who had at nearly the same time been 1660 Oct. condemned to death, did not abate their confidence in their cause. Alone against a nation, pride of character blended with religious fervor and political enthusiasm Death under the horrid forms which a barbarous age had devised, and a barbarous jurisprudence still tolerated, they could meet with serenity, or with exultation. The voice within their breasts still approved what they had done; a better world seemed opening to receive them; and, as they ascended the scaffold, their undaunted com<
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 12: (search)
ch Goffe and Whalley were passengers, was received with skeptical July 27. anxiety; and no notice was taken of the event. At the session of the general court in October, a motion for an address to the king did not succeed; affairs in England were still regarded as unsettled. At last it Nov. 10. became certain that the hereditares the massacre of that day. See the names in note to E. Everett's Address at Bloody Brook, 37 Springfield was burned, and Hadley once more assaulted. The re- Oct. moter villages were deserted; the pleasant residences, that had been won by hard toil in the desert, the stations of civilization in the wilderness, were laid wast683. before an English tribunal, under judges holding their office at the pleasure of the crown; and Randolph, the hated messenger, arrived with the writ. At the Oct. same time, a declaration from the king asked once more for submission, promising as a reward the royal favor, and the fewest alterations in the charter consistent
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 14: (search)
es. Of the assembly of 1654, not more than two members were elected at the restoration; of the assembly of March, 1660, of which an adjourned meeting was held in October, the last assembly elected during the interruption, only eight were reelected to the first assembly of Charles ii., and, of these eight, not more than five retainwere cited as a fit precedent 1670 Oct for English colonies; and it was enacted that none but freeholders and housekeepers shall hereafter have Chap. XIV.} 1670 Oct. a voice in the election of any burgesses. Hening, ii. 280. Thus was a majority of the people of Virginia disfranchised by the act of their own representativa sin, Though Death, nay, though myself had bribed been, To guide the fatal shaft? We honor all, That lend a hand unto a traitor's fall. and on the first day of October he died. Seldom has a political leader Chap. XIV.} 1676 been more honored by his friends Who is there now, said they, to plead our cause? His eloquence could a
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 15: (search)
to send their yachts into the Narragansett. Our authority to trade and plant we derive from the States of Holland, and will defend it, rejoined Minuit. But in October of the same year, he sent De Rasieres, who stood next him in rank, on a conciliatory embassy to New Plymouth. The envoy, who proceeded in state with soldiers and of its territory to the west; and the people of Connecticut not only increased their pretensions on Long Island, but regardless of the provisionary treaty, 1662. Oct. claimed West Chester, Ibid. XXI. 97, and XXI. 381, 388, and XXIV. 161—174. and were steadily advancing towards the Hudson. To stay these encroachments, Stuyvespt 24 Fort Orange, now named Albany, from the Scottish title of the duke of York, quietly surrendered; and the league with the Five Nations was renewed. Early in October, Oct 1 the Dutch and Swedes on the Delaware capitulated; and for the first time the whole Atlantic coast of the old thirteen states was in possession of England.
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 17: (search)
manity and gentleness that could consist with arbitrary power; and to use punishments not from wilful cruelty; but as an instrument of terror. On the last day of October, he received the surrender of the colony from the representatives of the Dutch, and renewed the absolute authority of the proprietary. The inhabitants of the easted to call a general assembly of all the freeholders, by the persons whom they should choose to represent them. Accordingly, on the seventeenth of the following October, about seventy years after Manhattan was first occupied, about thirty years after the demand of the popular convention by the Dutch, the people of New York met inhe mighty dangers from Popery, indicted the duke of York as a recusant, and reported the duchess of Portsmouth, the kings new mistress, as a common neusance. 1680 Oct. and 1681 Mar. The extreme agitation was successful; and in two successive parliaments, in each of which men who were at heart dissenters had the majority, the bill