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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), McCulloch, Benjamin 1811- (search)
McCulloch, Benjamin 1811- Military officer; born in Rutherford county, Tenn., Nov. 11, 1811; emigrated to Texas before the war for its independence, and fought as a private at San Jacinto. He was a captain of rangers in the war against Mexico, serving well under both Taylor and Scott. He was a commissioner to adjust the difficulties with the Mormons in May, 1857. Joining the Confederate army, he was made a brigadier-general, and led a corps at the battle of Pea Ridge, where he was killed, March 7, 1862.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Trials. (search)
ril, 1856 James P. Casey, for shooting James King, of William, editor of the San Francisco Bulletin, and Charles Cora, murderer of United States Marshal Richardson; tried and hanged by the vigilance committee in San Francisco......May 20, 1856 Dred Scott case (q. v.)......1856 R. J. M. Ward ( the most extraordinary murderer named in the calendar of crime ), Cleveland, O.......1857 Emma A. Cunningham, for the murder of Dr. Burdell, in New York City, Jan. 30, 1856; acquitted......May, 1857 Daniel E. Sickles, for killing Philip Barton Key, Washington, D. C.; acquitted......April 4-26, 1859 John Brown, for insurrection in Virginia; tried Oct. 29, and executed at Charlestown, Va.......Dec. 2, 1859 Albert W. Hicks, pirate; tried at Bedloe's Island, May 18-23; convicted of triple murder on the oyster-sloop Edwin A. Johnson in New York Harbor; hanged......July 13, 1860 Officers and crew of the privateer Sa-vannah, on the charge of piracy; jury disagree......Oct. 23-31,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
r......April 13, 1857 Frederick P. Stanton, secretary, who precedes Governor Walker to Kansas, announces the policy of the new administration in an address at Lawrence, and says that resistance to the bogus laws will mean war......April 24, 1857 Gov. Robert J. Walker arrives at Lecompton and reads his inaugural address......May 27, 1857 The Squatter sovereign, of Atchison, the most violent of the pro-slavery newspapers in the Territory, passes into the hands of free-State men......May, 1857 Governor Robinson's message to Topeka legislature......June 11, 1857 Election of delegates to the Lecompton constitutional convention; no free-State men voted......June 15, 1857 Free-State convention at Topeka to nominate officers under the Topeka constitution, and a delegate to Congress, appoints James H. Lane to organize citizens of the Territory to protect the ballotboxes at the approaching elections......July 15, 1857 Governor Walker, with several companies of dragoons, enc
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Michigan, (search)
sed......1853 State asylum for deaf, dumb, and blind, established by act of legislature in 1848, opens in rented rooms at Flint......February, 1854 Ship-canal around St. Mary's Falls opened......1855 Lands granted by Congress to aid in building a railroad from Ontonagon to the Wisconsin State line......1856 State reform school at Lansing opened......Sept. 2, 1856 State agricultural college at Lansing, established by act of legislature, Feb. 12, 1853, opened for students......May, 1857 State confers the grant of Congress made in 1856 on the Ontonagon and State Line Railroad Company......1857 State asylum for the insane at Kalamazoo opened for reception of patients......1859 First Michigan Regiment, ready and equipped four days after the President's call, leaves Detroit under orders of the War Department......May 13, 1861 State receives from the federal government a grant of 5,891,598 acres of swamp land in Michigan......1868 All departments of Michigan U