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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Blaine , James Gillespie , 1830 -1893 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Board of War and ordnance, (search)
Board of War and ordnance,
A committee appointed by Congress, June 12, 1776, consisting of John Adams, Roger Sherman, Benjamin Harrison, James Wilson, and Edward Rutledge, with Richard Peters as secretary.
This board continued.
with changes, until October, 1781, when Benjamin Lincoln was appointed Secretary of War.
Cass, Lewis 1782-1866
Statesman; born in Exeter, N. H., Oct. 9, 1782; entered upon the practice of law about 1802, in Zanesville, O., and at the age of twenty-five was a member of the legislature.
He was colonel of an Ohio regiment, under General Hull, in 1812, and was with the troops surrendered at Detroit (q. v.). In March, 1813, he was made a brigadier-general, and was volunteer aide to General Harrison at the battle of the Thames (q. v.), when he was appointed governor of Michigan Territory.
As superintendent of Indian affairs in that region, he negotiated nineteen treaties with the Indians.
In 1829 he organized a scientific expedition to explore the upper Mississippi.
In 1831 he resigned the governorship and became Secretary of War, under President Jackson.
From 1836 to 1842 he was United States minister to France, and from 1845 to 1848 United States Senator.
He received the Democratic nomination
Lewis Cass.
for President in 1848, but was defeated, and was again in
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Chattanooga , abandonment of. (search)
Chattanooga, abandonment of.
In 1863 the Army of the Cumberland, under Rosecrans, after crossing the Cumberland Mountains in pursuit of the Confederates under Bragg, was stretched along the Tennessee River from a point above Chattanooga 100 miles westward.
Rosecrans determined to cross that stream at different points, and, closing around Chattanooga, attempts to crush or starve the Confederate army there.
General Hazen was near Harrison's, above Chattanooga (Aug. 20). He had made slow marches, displaying camp-fires at different points, and causing the fifteen regiments of his command to appear like the advance of an immense army.
On the morning of Aug. 21 National artillery under Wilder, planted on the mountain-side across the river, opposite Chattanooga, sent screaming shells over that town and among Bragg's troops.
The latter was startled by a sense of immediate danger; and when, soon afterwards, Generals Thomas and McCook crossed the Tennessee with their corps and took po
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cleveland , Grover 1837 - (search)