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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Condensed history of regiments., Thirteenth regiment Massachusetts Infantry. (search)
ashington September 2. As part of General Sedgwick's Division the regiment met the greatest loss during its service in the charge made on the morning of September 17 at the battle of Antietam. It was engaged at Fredericksburg Dec. 13, and encamped for the winter of 1863 near Falmouth, Va. May 2, 1864, it left camp and took part the next day at the battle of Chancellorsville. At Gettysburg it was closely engaged July 2, when Colonel Ward was mortally wounded, and it took part also July 3 and 4. It moved with the army into Virginia and engaged in the Mine Run campaign, encamping afterward for the winter near Stevensburg. In the campaign of 1864 the regiment formed part of the 1st Brigade, 2d Division 2d Army Corps, shared with it in the battles of the Wilderness, May 5 and 6, and engaged in all the actions about Spotsylvania, North Anna and Cold Harbor, moving to Petersburg in June, greatly reduced in numbers by losses in action. On June 22, while stationed on the Jerusalem Plank
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 2 (search)
ss. Infantry, Dec. 18, 1862; mustered, Jan. 24, 1863. Resigned on account of disability, Apr. 13, 1863. Brevet Brig. General, U. S. Volunteers, Mar. 13, 1865. Died at Cannes, France, Dec. 6, 1889. Palfrey, John Carver. Born at Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 25, 1833. Cadet, U. S. Military Academy, July 1, 1853, to July 1, 1857. Brevet Second Lieutenant, Corps of Engineers, July 1, 1857. Second Lieutenant, Dec. 31, 1857. Assistant Engineer on the defences of Hampton Roads, Va., Apr. 24 to July 4, 1861. On sick leave of absence, July 4 to Oct. 27, 1861. First Lieutenant, Aug. 3, 1861. Assistant Engineer at Fort Monroe, Va., Oct. to Nov. 29, 1861. Superintending Engineer of the construction of fort at Ship Island, Miss., Dec. 23, 1861, to Jan. 5, 1863. Acting Aide-de-Camp to Brig. General Phelps and afterwards to Maj. General Butler till Dec. 24, 1862. Detached at Fort Jackson and New Orleans, La., May 4-22, 1862. In charge of the construction and repairs of the fortifications about
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 16 (search)
n Evening Journal, June 17, 1861, p. 2, col. 3. — – Later despatches and editorial comment. Boston Evening Journal, June 12, 1861, p. 2, cols. 2, 6; June 13, p. 2, cols. 1, 3, 6. — – Lessons from; 5th Regt. M. V. M. in Alexandria, Va. Boston Evening Journal, June 19, 1861, p. 4, col. 5. — – Southern official report. Col. (Gen.) D. H. Hill. Boston Evening Journal, June 28, 1861, p. 2, col. 2. — – Transcript's suggestion of approach by water ridiculed. Boston Evening Journal, July 4, 1861, p. 4, col. 4. Bigelow, Dr. Henry J. Lectures on military surgery, with demonstrations described; effect of Minie ball, etc. Boston Evening Journal, May 8, 1861, p. 4, col. 5. Bigelow, John. France and Confederate navy, rev. of. N. Y. Nation, vol. 47, p. 457. Billings, John D. 10th Batt. Mass. L. A. Services of. Bivouac, vol. 2, p. 54. — – History of, short note in praise of. Army and Navy Journal, vol. 19, p. 435. Bingham, Chas. H. Recruits, 13th R
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order, Boston events. (search)
an street, burned, May 20, 1857 Several houses on Federal street, burned, May 2, 1858 Mechanical Bakery, Commercial street, burned, Feb. 6, 1859 Flour Mills, on Eastern Avenue, burned, Apr. 2, 1859 Westboroa Reform School buildings, burned, Aug. 12, 1859 House of Reformation at Deer Island, burned, Aug. 21, 1859 City Stables, on Commercial street, burned, Aug. 31, 1859 Derby Range, Sudbury street, burned, Sept. 8, 1860 Conflagration on Albany and on Border streets, July 4, 1861 Nahant Hotel, at Nahant, burned, Sep. 11, 1861 Quincy Market-house badly scorched, Jan. 27, 1862 Mathew's Block, North street, burned, Feb. 24, 1862 Fire Stores on Batterymarch street burned, May 12, 1862 In Sudbury street, seven injured, one fireman Killed, July 1, 1862 National Theatre, Portland street, again burned, Mar. 24, 1863 Winthrop House, Tremont and Boylston streets, burned, Apr. 6, 1864 Morris' Play-house, Province court, burned, Oct. 25, 1864 R
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), The civil history of the Confederate States (search)
preciation had gone to nearly fifty cents on the dollar. Congress endeavored to preserve the Confederate credit by all measures it could devise. Sustained by the banks it made its loans at what should be considered a low rate of interest, and attempted to provide for the payment of that interest by special tax of fifty cents upon each one hundred dollars in value upon nearly all real and personal property. The United States Congress met in extra session in a fortified city on the 4th of July, 1861. Among the distinguished leaders who supported war measures with vigor were Sumner, Fessenden, Chandler, Trumbull, Wade, Hale, Wilson, Sherman and Chase. The conservatives were represented by Pearce, Polk, Richardson of Illinois, Saulsbury, Bayard and Bright. Every New England senator except Morrill was given chairmanship of some committee. Sixteen States were put in complete control of the government. By a political understanding during these early months of the war, neither part
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 3: (search)
aring his intention to coerce the seceding States into obedience to Federal authority. That same day Fort Sumter surrendered to the Confederate States. On the 15th of April, President Lincoln issued a call for 75,000 militia, apportioned among the States, to serve for three months, to suppress combinations against the laws of the United States in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. He also summoned the Congress to meet on the 4th of July, 1861. That there might be no misunderstanding of the object of his call for troops, Lincoln stated in his proclamation: I deem it proper to say that the first service assigned to the forces hereby called forth will probably be to repossess the forts, places and property which have been seized from the Union. In pursuance of Lincoln's call, the following letter was sent to Governor Letcher: War Department, Washington, April 15, 1861. To His Excellency the Governor of Virginia: S
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 6: (search)
days, in this expectation, supposing that Patterson had invaded Virginia for that purpose; but, as Patterson did not come on, and being unwilling to attack superior numbers in a town so defensible as Martinsburg, with its numerous stone and brick buildings, he ordered his troops back to Winchester, much to their disappointment, as they were all eager to fight. Johnston's effective force at that time was not quite 9,000 men of all arms. In a letter to General Cooper, from Darkesville, July 4, 1861, transmitting the reports of Colonel Jackson and Lieutenant-Colonel Stuart, General Johnston wrote: Each of these two officers has, since the commencement of hostilities, been exercising the command corresponding to the next grade above the commission he holds, and proved himself fully competent to such command. I therefore respectfully recommend that Colonel Jackson be promoted without delay to the grade of brigadiergen-eral, and Lieutenant-Colonel Stuart to that of colonel. Capt. W.
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Chapter 11: (search)
from the authority of decisions of the Supreme Court. This was doubtless intended to shield the resolution of the Chicago platform, prohibiting slavery in Territories, from the Dred Scott decision. It cannot be denied that this had at the time an unhappy influence upon the border States, because it impaired the hope of any future compromise of this vital question. President Lincoln specifies and illustrates the character of his inaugural in his subsequent message to Congress of the 4th July, 1861. He says: The policy chosen looked to the exhaustion of all peaceable measures, before a resort to any stronger ones. It sought to hold the public places and property, not already wrested from the Government, and to collect the revenue, relying for the rest on time, discussion, and the ballot-box. It promised a continuance of the mails at Government expense to the very people who were resisting the Government, and it gave repeated pledges against any disturbance to any of the people
Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical (search)
ncellorship of the State university, which had been offered to him. He was a delegate to the Charleston Democratic convention in 1860, where the great breach occurred that led to secession and to civil war, and was elector for the State-at-large on the Breckinridge and Lane ticket. He was appointed judge of the Confederate courts in Georgia in 1861, but resigned in the same year to accept the rank of brigadier-general in the army of the Confederate States, his commission bearing date of July 4, 1861. He reached the field of operations to which he had been assigned just about the time of the defeat and death of Gen. Robert S. Garnett in West Virginia; gathered together at Monterey the defeated and disorganized forces of Garnett, and in a short while had restored their organization and discipline and infused into them a spirit, not only of readiness, but of anxiety, to enter upon a new campaign for the recovery of what had been lost in Northern Virginia. When Lee made his advance upo
James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter II (search)
ed port. It stands on the same footing as the right of search, which is exclusively a war right; and like the right of search, it is a benefit to the belligerent, and a hardship to the neutral. Even after the President's proclamation, which was to all intents a belligerent declaration, and after the blockade had been set on foot, the Government still held to its theory that the parties to the contest were not belligerents, and that rebellion was not in any sense war. In his report of July 4, 1861, at the special session of Congress, the Secretary of the Navy referred to the blockade in these terms: In carrying into effect these principles, and in suppressing the attempts to evade and resist them, and in order to maintain the Constitution and execute the laws, it became necessary to interdict commerce at those ports where duties could not be collected, the laws maintained and executed, and where the officers of the Government were not tolerated or permitted to exercise their
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