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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), Doc. 60. battle of Elkin's ford, Arkansas. (search)
the same evening, being satisfied that the enemy were in our front in force, and designed attacking us during the night or early next morning, I ordered Lieutenant-Colonel Drake, Thirty-sixth Iowa, to proceed with three companies from that regiment, and three companies from the Forty-second Indiana, to a position on the main roadon our right and left. At six o'clock on the morning of the fourth, the enemy approached in force, and commenced an attack on the advance companies of Lieutenant-Colonel Drake, who resisted them gallantly for nearly two hours, being well supported by the artillery of Lieutenant Peetz. Too much praise cannot be awarded ColoneColonel Drake for the very distinguished gallantry and determined courage he exhibited during this contest. The capture by his forces early in the morning of a rebel lieutenant — an aid-de-camp of General Marmaduke--confirmed me in the belief that that General was near in person, with a large portion of his division. After a very liv
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 151 (search)
s known that only Shelby's forces was north of the Washita, and Colonel Drake's force was fully competent to manage him. If reinforcements we upon being advised thereof by his cavalry in time to reinforce Colonel Drake. It subsequently transpired that General Fagen crossed the Washita on the second night after Colonel Drake left Camden, making a forced march of forty-five miles the next day, and joining Shelby in the ntroops in the Confederate service, while the total number under Colonel Drake was only about fifteen hundred. The night previous to the fiose the Union troops. At this critical juncture word reached Colonel Drake that the Seventy-seventh Ohio was only a mile off. It had becomon the rebels. The latter wavered and became disordered. Then Colonel Drake placed himself at the head of his men, and was about to give thd have arrived here, and are well cared for in the hospital. Colonel Drake, as soon as he can bear the trip, will start North. Among th
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 155 (search)
Resistance, on their part, was no longer possible. All this occurred in less time than the reader can glance over what is written. Meanwhile the firing has dispelled sleep from every eye. The most tired man along the line is now thoroughly awake, and ready to do his share in battle. In the rear of Heckman's brigade, as a reserve, are two regiments of the Tenth corps, the Eighth Maine, and One Hundred and Twelfth New York, temporarily detached for duty under Weitzel. They are led by Colonel Drake, who brings them up from the woods in the rear to the relief of General Heckman. They make a splendid charge upon the enemy and drive him outside the line of earthworks. The immediate effect of this is to release from three to four hundred of Heckman's men, who are prisoners. Heckman himself, however,is carried off. Again the enemy charge with fresh troops, but are repulsed and slaughtered by our men, only to rush up once more over the dead and dying with the fury of demons, with stil
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 172 (search)
es was an open space of two thirds of a mile in width, beyond which, in a piece of pine woods, the enemy was in force, intrenched. Across the opening General Smith ordered a charge, which was brilliantly executed by Devin's division (brigades of Drake and Barton). The division, though moving at the pas de charge, suffered very heavily from the artillery of the enemy, which had a clean sweep of the field. Drake's brigade especially, had been much cut up, its leader had fallen mortally wounded,Drake's brigade especially, had been much cut up, its leader had fallen mortally wounded, and on reaching the rebel ranks began to waver. Barton's brigade, however, emerging from the woods on its right, dashed forward with a yell, cleared the abattis, and gained the enemy's works, taking about three hundred prisoners. Ricketts' division of the Sixth corps, which was formed on the left of Devin's, behaved with equal gallantry, carried the rebel rifle-pits, and also took several hundred prisoners. The enemy, however, still held his position oh the right of Smith, in front of the div
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 5: Don Mariano. (search)
s so indignant that he shaved his beard, renounced his title of a Spanish don, and swore that in future he would shave his face like an English marquis. Acting with Alvaredo in founding a new government, he found the hour of his success the most critical of his life. What should he do with California? She could not stand alone. Four countries had some claim to her-Spain, England, Russia, the United States. Spain had been her nominal owner for a hundred years. England had the right of Drake's discovery, when the coast was called New Albion, and annexed to the domain of Queen Elizabeth. Russia had long possessed some points on the coast, notably the hills commanding the Golden Gate. America had the claims of neighbourhood, and a cession from the government of Mexico. What part was he to play? His bishops were in favour of submitting to the Spanish crown, Spain being their country and the bulwark of their Church. The other powers are all heretical. A Catholic seemed to have
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Roster of the Nineteenth regiment Massachusetts Volunteers (search)
18; M. O. June 30, ‘65. Doyle, James, priv., (I), Apr. 1, ‘64; 18; wounded May 18, ‘64; abs. pris. since June 28, ‘64; not heard from since. Doyle, Lawrence, priv., (E), Aug. 6, ‘61; 29; M. O. Aug. 28, ‘64. Doyle, Nicholas, priv., (B), June 9, ‘64; 39; sub.; disch. July 14, ‘65; abs. pris. Doyle, Thomas, priv., (F), Feb. 13, ‘62; 32; killed in action July 3, ‘63; at Gettysburg, Pa. Doyle, William, priv., (B), May 21, ‘64; 31; sub.; abs. pris. since June 22, ‘64; not heard from since. Drake, Alvan, Jr., priv., band, Sept. 3, ‘61; 31; disch. disa. Jan. 12, ‘62. Driscoll, Dennis, priv., Aug. 19, ‘61; 18; never joined for service. Driscoll, Jerry, priv., (K), Dec. 31, ‘64; 21; M. O. June 30, ‘65. Driscoll, John P., priv., (H), Feb. 27, ‘64; 19; abs. pris. since June 22, ‘64; not heard from since. Driver, Samuel, priv., (H), Dec. 9, ‘61; 19; wounded Sept. 17, ‘62, May 6, ‘64; re-en. Dec. 21 ‘63; M. O. June 30, ‘65. Driver, Wm. R., pr
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Chapter 3: Cincinnati, 1832-1836. (search)
lar in which Mrs. Cincinnati has imitated the domestic arrangements of some of her elder sisters, and a very disgusting one it is. Our family physician is one Dr. Drake, a man of a good deal of science, theory, and reputed skill, but a sort of general mark for the opposition of all the medical cloth of the city. He is a tall, rere further stimulated at this time by the congenial society of the Semi-Colon Club, a little social circle that met on alternate weeks at Mr. Samuel Foote's and Dr. Drake's. The name of the club originated with a roundabout and rather weak bit of logic set forth by one of its promoters. He said: You know that in Spanish Columbus onthly; General Edward King; Mrs. Peters, afterwards founder of the Philadelphia School of Design; Miss Catherine Beecher; Mrs. Caroline Lee Hentz; E. P. Cranch; Dr. Drake; S. P. Chase, and many others who afterwards became prominent in their several walks of life. In one of her letters to Miss May, Mrs. Stowe describes one of h
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Chapter 4: early married life, 1836-1840. (search)
in the West without a higher grade of public schools, and had in 1833 been one of the founders in Cincinnati of The College of teachers, an institution that existed for ten years, and exerted a widespread influence. Its objects were to popularize the common schools, raise the standard of teachers, and create a demand for education among the people. Professor Stowe was associated in this movement with many of the leading intellects of Ohio at that time, and among them were Albert Pickett, Dr. Drake, Smith Grimke, Archbishop Purcell, President A. H. McGuffey, Dr. Beecher, Lydia Sigourney, Caroline Lee Hentz, and others. Their influence finally extended to the state legislature, and it was concluded to authorize Professor Stowe, when abroad, to investigate and report upon the common school systems of Europe, especially Prussia. He sailed from New York for London in the ship Montreal, Captain Champlin, on June 8, 1836, and carried with him, to be opened only after he was at sea, a
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Index. (search)
n, Miss, 32, 41, 46. Democracy and American novelists, Lowell on, 329. De Profundis, motive of Mrs. Browning's, 357. De Stael, Mme., and Corinne, 67. Dickens, first sight of, 226; J. R. Lowell on, 328. Dog's mission, a, date of, 491. Domestic service, H. B. S.'s trouble with, 200. Doubters and disbelievers may find comfort in spiritualism, 487. Doubts, religious, after death of eldest son, 321. Douglass, Frederick, 254; letters from H. B. S. to, on slavery, 149. Drake, Dr., family physician, 63; one of founders of College of teachers, 79. Dred, 266; Sumner's letter on, 268; Georgiana May on, 268; English edition of, 270; presented to Queen Victoria, 271; her interest in, 277, 285; demand for, in Glasgow, 273; Duchess of Sutherland's copy, 276; Low's sales of, 278, 279; London times, on, 278; English reviews on, severe, 279; Revue des Deux Mondes on, 290; Miss Martineau on, 309; Prescott on, 311; Lowell on, 334; now Nina Gordon, publication of, 490. Dud
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 5 (search)
lready said enough. Nor can I paint the background of that strange early society of Rhode Island, its reaction from the stern Massachusetts rigor, and its quaint and varied materials. In that new state, as Bancroft keenly said, there were settlements filled with the strangest and most incongruous elements . . . so that if a man had lost his religious opinions, he might have been sure to find them again in some village in Rhode Island. Meanwhile the old benevolent sachem, Massasoit, says Drake's Book of the Indians, having died in the winter of 1661-2, so died, a few months after, his oldest son, Alexander. Then came by regular succession, Philip, the next brother, of whom the historian Hubbard says that for his ambitious and haughty spirit he was nicknamed King Philip. From this time followed warlike dismay in the colonies, ending in Philip's piteous death. As a long-deferred memorial to Massasoit with all his simple and modest virtues, a tablet has now been reverently ded
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