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John Beatty, The Citizen-Soldier; or, Memoirs of a Volunteer, August, 1863. (search)
at. Colonel Gilmer is delighted to find the country coming around to his ideas. He believes the Lord, who superintends the affairs of nations, will give us peace in good time, and that time will be when the institution of slavery has been rooted up and destroyed. He is a Kentuckian by birth, and says he has kinfolks every-where. He is the only man he knows of who can find a cousin in every town he goes to. August, 9 Dined with Colonel Taylor. Colonels Hobart, Nicholas, and Major Craddock were present. After dinner we adjourned to my quarters, where we spent the afternoon. Hobart dilated upon his adventures at New Orleans and elsewhere, under Abou Ben Butler. He says Butler is a great man, but a d-d scoundrel. I have heard Hobart say something like this at least a thousand times, and am pleased to know that his testimony on this point is always clear, decisive, and uncontradictory. My visitors are gone. The cars are bunting against each other at the depot. The k
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, XXVII. June, 1863 (search)
duced them to engage in a raid on the Northern Neck, resulting in the devastation of several counties. These facts I got from the President's special detective, Craddock. Craddock also informs me that my communication to Col. Johnston was laid before the President, who called in the Secretary of State and the Secretary of War, tCraddock also informs me that my communication to Col. Johnston was laid before the President, who called in the Secretary of State and the Secretary of War, to consult on some means of regulating the passport business, etc. He says prompt measures will be adopted immediately. Craddock also informs me that a Jew named Cohen, in this city, has been co-operating with his brother living in the North, obtaining passports both ways for bribes-and bribing the officials that granted them, Craddock also informs me that a Jew named Cohen, in this city, has been co-operating with his brother living in the North, obtaining passports both ways for bribes-and bribing the officials that granted them, much to our detriment. This, perhaps, has alarmed the President; but if the business of selling passports be lucrative, I despair of his being able to put an end to it. I see the enemy have destroyed the President's house, furniture, etc., in Mississippi. I have good reason to suppose that the package marked important, et
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, chapter 42 (search)
en no guns heard to-day. August 18 Cloudy and pleasant. Still we have no authentic account of the details of the fights on the north side of the James River. We know we lost two brigadier-generals, and that we captured some 600 prisoners. Of the number killed and wounded on either side is all conjecture, although a semi-official statement makes our loss but light. Nevertheless, I happen to know that the President rode out yesterday, and remained until late in the night: for Mr. Craddock, his special detective (and formerly his messenger), whom he sent for to accompany him, assures me while on the field there was a flag of truce to bury the dead, and that the slaughter had been large. Our cavalry had suffered; but he thinks the enemy's infantry lost many more men than all our slain together. He says, moreover, that only one negro prisoner reached the city. The rest, thrust forward, being killed on the field in action, I suppose. At 2 P. M. a rumor began to be expan
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 56 (search)
n of the Ninth Kentucky cavalry, under command of Major Rue, the Twelfth Kentucky infantry, the Sixteenth Kentucky infantry, (which two regiments, together with the Seventh Tennessee, had been temporarily brigaded and placed under command of Colonel Craddock, of the Sixteenth Kentucky,) the battery of artillery, and the Thirty-fourth brigade, commanded by Colonel Reed, moved in pursuit. The order of the march was as follows: first, the squadron of cavalry under Major Gratz; second, one section t hundred men, and my whole effective force did not exceed three thousand three hundred men. To Captain Miller, of company M, First Illinois battery, thanks are due for his efficient services as an artillery officer. My thanks are due to Colonel Craddock for his energy and valuable suggestions, as well as to all the officers on the expedition ; but, above all, the gallant soldiers composing the command deserve especial notice for the cheerfulness with which they endured the privations to whi
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 2: (search)
:-- The next town is Mistick, which is three miles from Charlestown by land, and a league and a half by water. It is seated by the water's side very pleasantly: there are not many houses as yet. At the head of this river are great and spacious ponds, whither the alewives press to spawn. This being a noted place for that kind of fish, the English resort hither to take them. On the west side of this river the Governor has a farm, where he keeps most of his cattle. On the east side is Mr. Craddock's plantation, where he has impaled a park, where he keeps his cattle, till he can store it with deer. Here, likewise, he is at charges of building ships. The last. year, one was upon the stocks of a hundred tons; that being finished, they are to build one twice her burden. Ships, without either ballast or loading, may float down this river; otherwise, the oyster-bank would hinder them which crosseth the channel. The Hon. James Savage, in his edition of Winthrop's Journal, vol. II
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 13: civil History. (search)
ted from its former obligation, it was manifestly only for a short time. Again, Oct. 25, 1733, the bridge having been very thoroughly and effectually repaired, after a large portion of it had been carried away by the ice, the Court granted to Cambridge, £ 117 16s., to Newton, £ 100, and to Lexington, £ 82 4s., in all £ 300, Mass. Rec., XV. 4 53. On the 28th of the following January the town voted thanks to the General Court for the aid rendered; and also to Col. Jacob Wendell Esq. and Mr. Craddock for their kindness to us in procuring and collecting a very bountiful subscription for us, to encourage and enable us to go through the charge of the repair of our Great Bridge. in consideration of their extraordinary expense; and on the 22d of June, 1734, Voted, that three thousand acres of the unappropriated lands of the Province be and hereby are granted to the towns of Cambridge, Newton, and Lexington, to enable them forever hereafter at their own cost and charge, to keep, amend, an
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Appendix. (search)
. Vier, Edward. Warren, Edward. Yuille, Philip P. Lee's body Guard, afterwards Company E, Thirty-Ninth Battalion Virginia Cavalry. Partial roster. Captain, A. H. Pettigrew. First Lieutenant, J. A. Armistead. Second Lieutenant, Fred. Mitchell. Privates. Baber, John. Couch, James M. Chumbley, Joseph. Franklin, Thomas E. Farmer, William. Johns, J. O. Jones, John T. Perrow, Willis. Slaughter, Samuel. Taliaferro, Hugh. Bagby, Lilburn. Craddock, David. Christian, Nat. Franklin, Samuel. Hunter, Thomas. Jones, Edmund W. Kinnear, James. Rodes, John. Taliaferro, C. C. Thompson, Thomas. Kirkpatrick's Battery, Company A, Thirty-First Battalion Virginia Artillery. This is a roster of the Lynchburg members. Captain, Thos. J. Kirkpatrick. First Lieut., George W. Hobson. Second Lieut., R. G. Scott. Third Lieut., A. R. Woodroof. Privates. Butterworth, Moses. Doss, William. Hewitt, A. Bowling.
Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, John Winthrop (search)
e was named. On September 6, 1631, Winthrop was granted 600 acres of land on the south side of Mystic river, which he named Ten Hills. In 1632 he was granted Conant's Island, in Boston harbor, and changed its name to Governor's Garden, he planting orchards, fruit, and vines there. It is now Governor's Island, the site of Fort Winthrop. In November, 1632, he received a further grant of fifty acres of land near Wannottymies river, which is now Alewife brook, and in 1634 he was with Craddock granted the fish weir on the Mystic, at Medford, and again another grant of 1,000 acres or more on Concord river. Winthrop seems to have temporarily resided in Cambridge in 1632. He probably resided at Ten Hills summers, and at Boston winters, maintaining an establishment at Ten Hills the year round. The original Ten Hills farm, as granted by the general court to Winthrop in 1631, comprised all the land south of Mystic river, from Broadway park to Medford centre, the southerly bounda
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book V:—Tennessee. (search)
remembrance of the disaster in September, was occupied by Colonel Hobson with six regiments of infantry and two of cavalry. The large stores collected at Elizabethtown, and the important tunnel which lies in the neighborhood, were only guarded by a single regiment, the Ninety-first Illinois, recently enlisted and commanded by Colonel Smith. The entrenchments and block-houses which were to cover this post and the bridge of Bacon Creek more to the south were not completed. The brigades of Craddock and Reed, with two regiments of cavalry, were at Lebanon under Colonel Hoskins. Baird's division, consisting of six regiments of infantry, was at Danville, and Woolford's brigade of cavalry at Greensburg, on Green River, above Munfordsville. Morgan, with his light and compact body of troops, fully relied upon his ability to pass through all these separate detachments and effect his escape before they had time to contrive any plan for crushing him. The news of his arrival at Glasgow was
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 11., Unpublished Manuscripts. (search)
after the other. Dr. Brooks was chosen governor in 1816, and held the office for seven successive years. Century old Medford items. The year 1808 was noted as the time when an assistant teacher was first employed in the public school. Also in 1808 were made several diggings for Captain Kidd's buried treasure. For richest Jems and gainfull things most merchants wisely venter; Deride not then New England men this corporation enter: Christ calls for trade shall never fade come Craddock factors send; Let Mayhew go and other mor spare not thy coyne to spend; Such trades advance did never chance in all thy trading yet: Though some deride thy loss, abide her's gaine beyond man's wit. —From Chapt. VII. Wonder Working Providence of Zion's Saviour in New England. Edward Johnson. On February 21, 1908, our former president and faithful worker, Mr. David H. Brown, entered into rest. He had but recently assumed the editorship of the Register, and to it gave his latest wor
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