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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 3 3 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 1 1 Browse Search
Col. John C. Moore, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 9.2, Missouri (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Towson, Nathan -1854 (search)
Towson, Nathan -1854 Artillery officer; born near Baltimore, Md., Jan. 22, 1784; was appointed captain of artillery in March, 1812, having had some experience in that service as commander of a volunteer artillery company; was sent to the Niagara frontier; and there, in 1813-14, performed distinguished services. He bore a prominent part in the battles of Chippewa and Lundy's Lane; also in the defence of Fort Erie. In 1816 he was brevetted lieutenant-colonel, and was made paymaster-general in 1819. In March, 1849, he received the brevet of majorgeneral for meritorious services during the Mexican War. He died in Washington, D. C., July 20, 1854.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
, Shawnees, Iowas, and Kickapoos cede lands in Kansas to the United States......May, 1854 Act of Congress passed organizing the Territory of Kansas, to be admitted as a State with or without slavery......May 30, 1854 Thirty-two persons associate in Weston, Mo., to lay out Leavenworth, the first city in the Territory......June 13, 1854 A meeting at Weston, Mo., resolves to remove any and all emigrants coming to Kansas under the auspices of the Northern emigrant aid societies......July 20, 1854 Atchison Town Company formed in Missouri......July 27, 1854 Emigrants under Charles H. Branscomb, of Massachusetts, sent out by emigrant aid company to Kansas as an anti-slavery colony, settle at Lawrence......Aug. 1, 1854 First newspaper in Kansas, the Leavenworth Herald, pro-slavery, printed under an elm-tree on the levee at Leavenworth......Sept. 15, 1854 Atchison laid out by an association from Platte county, Mo., and first sale of lots takes place......Sept. 21, 1854
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
, but not ratified.] Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Society organized by Eli Thayer, and incorporated......April 20, 1854 Anthony Burns seized as a slave at Boston......May 27, 1854 [He is remanded to slavery, and, under a strong guard to prevent his release, is taken to the wharf and shipped South. He was subsequently liberated by purchase, and settled in Canada.] A convention in Worcester declares in favor of a new political organization, to be called the Republican party......July 20, 1854 State convention of the Republican party, held at Worcester, nominates Henry Wilson for governor and Increase Sumner for lieutenant-governor......Sept. 7, 1854 Congress consents to the cession by Massachusetts to New York of Boston Corner, the southwesterly corner of Berkshire county......Jan. 3, 1855 Sumner's speech in the United States Senate on the admission of Kansas, known as the Crime against Kansas ......May 20, 1856 Senator Sumner assaulted and beaten down by Preston