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Mason, James Murray
Legislator; born on Mason's Island, Fairfax co., Va., Nov. 3, 1798; graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1818; began the practice of law in 1820; served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1826 to 1832, was a member of Congress from 1837 to 1839; and United States Senator from 1847 until expelled in July. 1861. Senator Mason was the author of the fugitive slave law (q. v.); an active leader in the disunion movement in 1860-61; and a member of the Confederate Congress.
He died near Alexandria, Va., April 28, 1871.
Early in the career of the Confederate government they sent diplomatic agents to European courts who proved to be incompetent.
Then the government undertook to correct the mistake by sending two of their ablest men to represent their cause at the courts of Great Britain and France respectively.
These were James M.
James Murray Mason. Mason, of Virginia, and John Slidell, of Louisiana, who was deeply interested in the scheme for
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Memminger , Charles Gustavus 1803 - (search)
Memminger, Charles Gustavus 1803-
Financier; born in Wurtemberg, Germany, Jan. 9, 1803; was taken to Charleston, S. C., in infancy; graduated at South Carolina College in 1820, and began to practise law in 1826.
In the nullification movement in South Carolina (see nullification) he was a leader of the Union men. In 1860 he was a leader of the Confederates in that State, and on the formation of the Confederate government was made Secretary of the Treasury.
He had been for nearly twenty years at the head of the finance committee of the South Carolina legislature.
He died March 7, 1888.
In January, 1860, as a representative of the political leaders in South Carolina, he appeared before the legislature of Virginia as a special commissioner to enlist the representatives of the Old Dominion in a scheme to combat the abolitionists.
In the name of South Carolina, he proposed a convention of the slave-labor States to consider their grievances and to take action for their defence.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mitchill , Samuel Latham 1764 -1831 (search)
Moore, John 1826-
Military surgeon; born in Indiana, Aug. 16, 1826; entered the army as assistant surgeon in June, 1853; served in the Cincinnati Marine Hospital in 1861-62; promoted surgeon and appointed medical director of the Central Grand Division of the Army of the Potomac in June, 1862; and became medical director of the Department and Army of the Tennessee in 1863.
He was with Sherman in the Atlanta campaign.
In 1883-86 he was assistant medical purveyor, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel; in 1886-90 was surgeon-general of the army with the rank of brigadier-general; and in the latter year was retired.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Morgan , John Hunt 1826 - (search)
Morgan, John Hunt 1826-
Military officer; born in Huntsville, Ala., June 1, 1826; killed at Greenville, Tenn., Sept. 4, 1864.
Settled near Lexington, Ky., in 1830, with his parents; served under Taylor in the
John Hunt Morgan. war with Mexico; and in 1861, at the head of the Lexington Rifles, he joined Buckner of the Kentucky State Guard.
At the battle of Shiloh he commanded a squadron of Confederate cavalry, and soon afterwards began his career as a raider.
His first noted exploit was his invasion of Kentucky from eastern Tennessee (July, 1861), with 1,200 men, under a conviction that vast numbers of young men would flock to his standard and he would become the liberator of that commonwealth.
Dispersing a small National force at Tompkinsville, Monroe co., he issued a flaming proclamation to the people of Kentucky.
He was preparing the way for Bragg's invasion of that State.
Soon recruits joined Morgan, and he roamed about the State, plundering and destroying.
At Lebanon
Morgan, William 1775-
Freemason; born in Culpeper county, Va., in 1775; died by violence, Sept. 19, 1826.
Was in the battle of New Orleans; and was a brewer in Toronto, Canada, in 1821.
He was a resident, in 1826, of Batavia, N. Y., where he was seized, carried to Fort Niagara, and, as many persons have since believed, was drowned in Lake Ontario, because it was reported that he was about to publish an exposure of the secrets of Freemasonry.
This affair created intense excitement and a new political party.
See Anti-Masonic party.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Morse , Jedediah 1761 -1826 (search)
Morse, Jedediah 1761-1826
Theologian and geographer; born in Woodstock, Conn., Aug. 23, 1761; graduated at Yale College in 1783, and was installed pastor of the First Congregational Church at Charlestown, Mass., in 1789.
In the twenty-third year of his age he prepared a small geography, which was the first ever published in America.
This was followed by larger geographies and gazetteers of the United States, with the help of Jeremy Belknap, the historian, Thomas Hutchins, the geographer, and Ebenezer Hazen.
For thirty years Mr. Morse was without an important competitor in this field of literature, and translations of his works were made into the French and German languages.
Dr. Morse was a life-long polemical theologian, and combated Unitarianism in New England most sturdily.
In 1805 he established the Panoplist, and was prominent in founding the Andover Theological Seminary.
His persistent opposition to liberalism in religion brought upon him much persecution, which affecte