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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 3 3 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 2 2 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 1 1 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 1 1 Browse Search
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing) 1 1 Browse Search
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lockwood, Henry Hayes 1814- (search)
Lockwood, Henry Hayes 1814- Educator; born in Kent county, Del., Aug. 17, 1814; graduated at the United States Military Academy and assigned to the artillery in 1836, and after serving in the. Seminole War resigned and engaged in farming till 1841. Subsequently he was appointed Professor of Mathematics at the United States Naval Academy; served on the frigate United States at the capture of Monterey, Cal., in October, 1842. Returning, he served at the naval asylum in Philadelphia until 1845, when he became Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy in the Naval Academy; was transferred to the chair of Field Artillery and Infantry Tactics in 1851, and occupied the chair of Astronomy and Gunnery till 1866. During the Civil War he served both on land and sea, entering the Union army as colonel of the 1st Delaware Regiment and rising to brigadier-general of volunteers. In 1864 he commanded the Middle Department, with . headquarters at Baltimore. He was mustered out of th
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
ancis S. Key, author of Star-Spangled banner, dies at Baltimore, Md., aged sixty-four......Jan. 11, 1843 Com. Isaac Hull dies at Philadelphia, Pa., aged sixty-eight......Feb. 13, 1843 Dr. Marcus Whitman, learning of the intention of the British government to permanently occupy the Oregon Territory, and desirous of a personal interview with the United States government, to give warning and also to announce the practicability of overland emigration to that region, leaves Walla Walla, October, 1842, and reaches Washington, D. C.......March 3, 1843 Bankruptcy act of 1841 repealed......March 3, 1843 Congress appropriates $30,000 to build Morse's electric telegraph from Washington to Baltimore......March 3, 1843 Twenty-seventh Congress adjourns......March 3, 1843 John Armstrong, Secretary of War, 1812, dies at Red Hook, N. Y., aged eighty-five......April 1, 1843 Col. John C. Fremont starts on his second exploring expedition with thirty-nine men......May, 1843 [Reache
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Winder, John Henry 1800-1865 (search)
Winder, John Henry 1800-1865 Military officer; born in Maryland in 1800; graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1820; promoted captain of the 1st Artillery in October, 1842; served in the Mexican War, winning distinction at Contreras, Churubusco, Chapultepec, and the fall of the city of Mexico; promoted major in November, 1860; resigned in the following April and joined the Confederate army, in which he was appointed a brigadiergeneral and given command of Richmond, having under his charge Belle Isle and Libby prison. Later he was placed in command of the Andersonville prison, Ga. He died in Branchville, S. C., Feb. 9, 1865. See Confederate prisons.