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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 3 3 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 1 1 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 1 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Index, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 1 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 1 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Irene E. Jerome., In a fair country 1 1 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct. 1 1 Browse Search
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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 7: Secession Conventions in six States. (search)
an immense Union meeting was held there, when a pole, ninety feet in hight, was erected, and the National flag was thrown to the breeze from its top. The crowd was composed of men, women, and children, many of whom had come from afar to greet the old flag, and to hear the airs of Hail Columbia and Yankee Doodle played by the band of musicians and sung by patriotic young women. It was a bright and joyous day in Texas, and the hearts of the lovers of the Union were made glad. That 23d of December, 1860, was almost the last bright day vouchsafed for Texas during years of civil war that ensued. At that moment there was a deadly enemy to free institutions and the most sacred rights of man working secretly in the vitals of the Commonwealth, and sapping the citadel of its life. This was an organization known as Knights of the Golden Circle, formed primarily, it is asserted, for the destruction of the nationality of the Republic, the seizure of the richest provinces of Mexico and the is
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I., Xxiv. conciliation in Congress. (search)
ould or would accept nothing as sufficient short of an utter and shameful repudiation by the Republicans of the vital principle of their party — the consecration of the Territories to Free Labor. Thus: Mr. Robert Toombs, of Georgia, having submitted a series of propositions, which were, in substance, the Breckinridge platform, without waiting a vote or any decisive action thereon, made haste to telegraph to Georgia, for effect upon her approaching election, as follows: Washington, Dec. 23, 1860. I came here to secure your constitutional rights, and to demonstrate to you that you can get no guarantee for those rights from your Northern confederates. The whole subject was referred to a Committee of thirteen in tie Senate. I was appointed on the Committee, and accepted the trust. I submitted propositions, which, so far from receiving a decided support from a single member of the Republican party of the Committee, were all treated with derision and contempt. A vote was
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Index, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), Index. (search)
To Massachusetts soldiers, P. 2 Tompkins, Chas. H., Lieut., charge at Fairfax Court House, Va., D. 89; official report of the surprise at Fairfax Court House, Va., Doc. 821 Tompkins, —, Col. Rhode Island Artillery, D. 34 Tompkins, S. W. B., Col., Doc. 264 Too good to be lost, P. 94 Toombs, Robert, his telegram, D. 5; his arrest spoken of, D. 12; correspondence with Mayor Wood, D. 16; Doc. 26; Secretary of State, S. C., D. 17; Address to the people of Georgia, Dec. 23, 1860, Doc. 7 Toronto Globe, extract from, D. 86 article on the impatience of the North, D. 51 To the American people, by Bayard Taylor, P. 61 To the British Rifle Company, P. 13 To the flag of the Southern American secessionists, flying in a British port, P. 120 To the Men of the North and West, P. 4 To the Third Regiment of Maine, by W. C. Baker, P. 142 To the Tories of Virginia, P. 147 To the Washington Artillery, P. 137 Townsend, Fredbrick
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Monroe, Harriet 1860- (search)
Monroe, Harriet 1860- Poet; born in Chicago, Ill., Dec. 23, 1860. She was the author of the Columbian ode which was read and sung at the opening ceremonies of the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America, Oct. 21, 1892. Monroe, James
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Texas, (search)
exchanged at Queretaro, May 30, and proclaimed......July 4, 1848 Austin city chosen as the seat of government for twenty years by vote of the people......1850 Texas formally accepts the boundary designated by the boundary bill for New Mexico, approved Sept. 9, 1850, by which Texas is to receive $10,000,000 from the United States......Nov. 25, 1852 First overland mail from San Diego, Cal., arrives at San Antonio......Sept. 6, 1857 Enthusiastic Union meeting held at Austin......Dec. 23, 1860 Brig.-Gen. David E. Twiggs surrenders to the State of Texas the United States ordnance depot at San Antonio and contents, valued at $1,200,500......Feb. 18, 1861 State People's convention meets at Austin, Jan. 21; passes an ordinance of secession by vote of 166 to 7, Feb. 1; ratified by popular vote, 34,794 to 11,235......Feb. 23, 1861 Fort Brown, at Brownsville, evacuated and occupied by Texan troops......March 5, 1861 Gov. Sam Houston, opposing secession and favoring separa
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Watson, John Fanning 1779-1860 (search)
Watson, John Fanning 1779-1860 Historian; born in Burlington county, N. J., June 13, 1779; was a clerk in the War Department in 1798, and afterwards went to New Orleans, where, in 1804, he was purveyor of subsistence for the United States troops stationed there. Returning to Philadelphia, he was a bookseller there for many years. From 1814 until 1847 he was cashier of a bank in Germantown, and afterwards was treasurer of a railroad company. He was an industrious delver in antiquarian lore, and in 1830 he published Annals of Philadelphia. In 1846 he published Annals of New York City and State. He had already published Historic Tales of the Olden times in New York (1832), and Historic tales of the Olden times in Philadelphia (1833). He also left manuscript annals in the Philadelphia Library. He died in Germantown, Pa., Dec. 23, 1860.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 5 (search)
Doc. 5.--Toombs' address, Dec. 23, 1860. I came here to secure your constitutional rights, and to demonstrate to you that you can get no guarantee for those rights from your Northern confederates. The whole subject was referred to a Committee of Thirteen in the Senate. I was appointed on the Committee, and accepted the trust. I submitted propositions, which, so far from receiving decided support from a single member of the Republican party of the Committee, were all treated with derision or contempt. A vote was then taken in the Committee on amendments to the Constitution proposed by Hon. J. J. Crittenden, and each and all of them were voted against unanimously by the Black Republican members of the Committee. In addition to these facts, a majority of the Black Republican members of the Committee declared distinctly that they had no guarantees to offer, which was silently acquiesced in by the other members. The Black Republican members of this Committee of Thirteen are rep
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Irene E. Jerome., In a fair country, Snow (search)
e skin, like reptiles imbedded in rock. Elizabeth Woodcock lived eight days beneath a snow-drift, in 1799, without eating a morsel; and a Swiss family was buried beneath an avalanche, in a manger, for five months, in 1755, with no food but a trifling store of chestnuts and a small daily supply of milk from a goat which was buried also. In neither case was there extreme suffering from cold, and it is unquestionable that the interior of a drift is far warmer than the surface. On the 23d of December, 1860, at 9 P. M., I was surprised to observe drops falling from the under side of a heavy bank of snow at the caves, at a distance from any chimney, while the mercury on the same side was only fifteen degrees above zero, not having indeed risen above the point of freezing during the whole day. Dr. Kane pays ample tribute to these kindly properties. Few of us at home can recognize the protecting value of this warm coverlet of snow. No eider-down in the cradle of an infant is tucked in
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
e gas works, which he operated until 1891, when his interests were merged in those of the gas, electric light and power company, of which he is president and treasurer. He has four children living: Abner D., Emily D., Mary Lou and William T. Donald John Auld Donald John Auld was born in Charleston, S. C., November 25, 1838. He was educated at Charleston and other places in a preparatory line and spent one year at the Oglethorpe university, near Milledgeville, Ga. He enlisted on December 23, 1860, in the Zouave cadets of Pettigrew's rifle regiment of Charleston, as a corporal. He assisted in building the Star of the West battery on Morris island and was in the battery the morning the vessel was fired on. He served on Morris and Sullivan's islands until after the fall of Fort Sumter and then enlised in Company H, of the Hampton legion, infantry, as second sergeant, and after serving as such for a short time was made first sergeant, serving as such through the Maryland campaign.
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 9 (search)
Hunnewell, 25 June, 1764. See Paige, 670. Ebenezer had infant, d. 22 Mar. 1797, a. 4 hours; and a child, d. 17 Oct. 1802, a. 1. See Paige, 670. Ebenezer Thompson was Pct. collector in 1803. Ebenezer Thompson was a Captain, 9th U. S. Infantry, in war of 1812. He enlisted about a dozen citizens of the town (Stephen Frost, John Cutter, Barton Swan,———--Wheeler, and others), of whom three or four only lived to return.—J. B. Russell. Ebenezer Thompson died in Verona, Oneida Co., N. Y., 23 Dec. 1860, a. 93. Ebenezer Rumford Thompson, a son, b. here 5 March, 1796, grad. H. U. 1816, taught the public school in West Cambridge during the winter of 1814-15, and was the first Latin teacher of the senior author of this work. Mr. E. R. Thompson is yet living in Dunkirk, N. Y. Thorndike, Joseph, of Jaffrey, N. H., m. Mrs. Lydia Blanchard of Camb. 30 July, 1795. Charlotte, m. Asahel Gilbert, of Boston, 10 Dec. 1827. Thornton, Prudence, had Mary, bap. 3 July, 1757. See Geohagan; W
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