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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 117 (search)
n, A. A. G., First Division: sir: In completion of my duties in connection with the arduous campaign just closed, I have the honor to report the part taken therein by my command, the Fifty-ninth Illinois, Colonel Post, Seventy-fifth Illinois, Colonel Bennett, Eighty-fourth Illinois, Colonel Waters, Eightieth Illinois, Lieutenant-Colonel Kilgour, Ninth Indiana, Colonel Suman, Thirty-sixth Indiana, Lieutenant-Colonel Cary, Thirtieth Indiana, Captain Dawson, Seventy-seventh Pennsylvania, Captain Lawson, to which was attached battery B, Pennsylvania. Effective force, officers and men, about two thousand nine hundred. By orders from Major-General Stanley, Division Commander, we marched, with the balance of his command, on the third day of May, 1864, from our camp at Blue Springs, near Cleveland, Tennessee, to Red Clay, on the Georgia state line, and camped for the night. May 4.--Marched with the division to Catoosa Springs, Georgia (with light skirmishing), for concentration with th
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died., List of Massachusetts officers and soldiers killed in action. (search)
17, 1862. Collins, Timothy,21st Mass. Inf.,New Berne, N. C.,March 14, 1862. Collins, Timothy,11th Mass. Inf.,Williamsburg, Va.,May 5, 1862. Collis, Richard S.,10th Mass. Inf.,Malvern Hill, Va.,July 1, 1862. Collister, Warren O., Corp.,25th Mass. Inf.,Petersburg, Va.,May 9, 1864. Collor, David,58th Mass. Inf.,Cold Harbor, Va.,June 7, 1864. Colson, William H., Sergt.,1st Mass. Inf.,Gettysburg, Pa.,July 2, 1863. Comee, Alphonso,25th Mass. Inf.,Cold Harbor, Va.,June 3, 1864. Comey, Lawson Name and rank. Private understood when not otherwise stated.Command.Engagement.Date. Comey, Lawson,42d Mass. Inf.,Brashear City, La.,June 23, 1863. Compass, Theodore, 1st Sergt.,20th Mass. Inf.,Near Richmond, Va.,June 30, 1862. Conant, Ephraim L.,18th Mass. Inf,Fredericksburg, Va.,Dec. 13, 1862. Conant, Lucius,58th Mass. Inf.,Spotsylvania, Va.,May 12, 1864. Conant, Seth W.,58th Mass. Inf.,Virginia,Sept. 30, 1864. Condon, James,9th Mass. Inf.,Gaines' Mill, Va.,June 27, 1862.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died., Comey, Lawson (search)
Comey, Lawson Name and rank. Private understood when not otherwise stated.Command.Engagement.Date. Comey, Lawson,42d Mass. Inf.,Brashear City, La.,June 23, 1863. Compass, Theodore, 1st Sergt.,20th Mass. Inf.,Near Richmond, Va.,June 30, 1862. Conant, Ephraim L.,18th Mass. Inf,Fredericksburg, Va.,Dec. 13, 1862. Conant, Lucius,58th Mass. Inf.,Spotsylvania, Va.,May 12, 1864. Conant, Seth W.,58th Mass. Inf.,Virginia,Sept. 30, 1864. Condon, James,9th Mass. Inf.,Gaines' Mill, Va.,June 27, 1862. Condon, Richard, Corp.,9th Mass. Inf.,Wilderness, Va.,May 5, 1864. Cone, William F., Corp.,10th Mass. Inf.,Wilderness, Va.,May 5, 1864. Conklin, Christopher C., Sergt.,40th Mass. Inf.,St. Mary's, Fla.,Feb. 10, 1864. Conlan, James,2d Mass. Inf.,Cedar Mountain, Va.,Aug. 9, 1862. Conlan, James,32d Mass. Inf.,Petersburg, Va.,June 18, 1864. Conley, Patrick,52d Mass. Inf.,Port Hudson, La.,June 15, 1863. Conley, Timothy,28th Mass. Inf.,Antietam, Md.,Sept. 17, 1862. Conlon, Andrew,9t
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Appendix. (search)
eutenant-colonel; Scruggs, D. E., major, lieutenant-colonel; Waller, Richard P., lieutenant-colonel. Second Infantry regiment: Allen, James W., colonel; Botts, Lawson, major, lieutenant-colonel, colonel; Colston, Raleigh T., major, lieutenant-colonel; Jones, Francis B., major; Lackland, Francis, lieutenant-colonel; Moore, EdwinInfantry regiment: Archer, Robert H., lieutenantcol-onel; Burke, Thomas M., major; Christian, William S., major, lieutenant-colonel; Fauntleroy, Robert B., major; Lawson, Charles N., major; Mallory, Francis, colonel; Rice, Evan, major, lieutenantcol-onel; Saunders, Andrew D., major; Ward, William N., major. Fifty-sixth Infantryr, Edward T., major. Fifty-ninth Infantry regiment: Anderson, Frank P., lieutenant-colonel; Henningsen, Charles F., colonel; Jones, Joseph, lieutenant-colonel; Lawson, John, major; Mosby, Robert G., major; Tabb, William B., colonel. Fifty-ninth Militia regiment: Copeland, John R., colonel. Sixtieth Infantry regiment: Corl
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 3: (search)
, and 350—357. could return to search for his colony and his daughter; and then the Island of Roanoke was a desert. An inscription on the bark of a tree pointed to Chap III.} 1590. Croatan; but the season of the year and the dangers from storms were pleaded as an excuse for an immediate return. Had the emigrants already perished? or had they escaped with their lives to Croatan, and, through the friendship of Manteo, become familiar with the Indians? The conjecture has been hazarded, Lawson's N. Carolina, 62. that the deserted colony, neglected by their own countrymen, were hospitably adopted into the tribe of Hatteras Indians, and became amalgamated with the sons of the forest. This was the tradition of the natives at a later day, and was thought to be confirmed by the physical character of the tribe, in which the English and the Indian race seemed to have been blended. Raleigh long cherished the hope of discovering some vestiges of their existence and though he had abandone
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 5: (search)
n New Hampshire, Belknap's Hist. of N. Hampshire, i. 75, Farmer's edition. the harmless fragments of the tribe of Annawon, Baylies' Plymouth, III. 190. the orphan offspring of King Philip himself, Davis, on Morton's Memorial, 454, 455. Baylies' Plymouth, III. 190, 191. were all doomed to the same hard destiny of perpetual bondage. The clans of Virginia and Carolina, Hening, i. 481, 482. The act, forbidding the crime, proves, what is indeed undisputed, its previous existence. Lawson's Carolina. Charmers, 542. for more than a hundred years, were hardly safe against the kidnapper. The universal public mind was long and deeply vitiated. It was not Las Casas who first suggested the plan of transporting African slaves to Hispaniola; Spanish slaveholders, as they emigrated, were accompanied by their negroes. The emigration may at first have been contraband; but a royal edict soon permitted Negro 1501 slaves, born in slavery among Christians, to be transported to Hispan
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 13: (search)
almers, 515. More stubborn rivals were found to have already Lawson's Description, p. 73. In the year 1661, or thereabouts. Martin, i.are of friendly Indians; Journal of Gentlemen from Barbadoes, in Lawson, 72, 73. and the emigrants, revisiting their former homes, spread as and arrows, they had entirely rid themselves of the intruders. Lawson, 74. F. L. Hawk's Ms. History of North Carolina. Other causes than natives were ready to promise peace? The account is reprinted in Lawson, 65—73. Martin, 180, &c, less perfectly. They purchased of the Indo little, that its site is at this day a subject of dispute. See Lawson's Map. Martin, i. 142, 143. Yet the colony, barren as were the plaie was hardly a woman in the land but could paddle a canoe. Comp. Lawson, 84. So, too, Brickell's Natural Hist. of N. C. p.33. As Fox cont. They loved the pure air and clear skies of their summer land. Lawson, 63, 80. True, there was no fixed minister in the land till 1703;
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXII (search)
ts of the Algonquin the mother tongue of the natives along the sea-coast as far south, at least, as Cape Hatteras. It is probable, also, that the Corees, or Coramines, who dwelt to the southward of the Neuse River, spoke a kindred language—thus Lawson, 171. establishing Cape Fear as the southern limit of the Algonquin speech. In Virginia, the same language was heard throughout the whole dominion of Powhatan, which had the Chap. XXII.} tribes of the Eastern Shore as its dependencies, and ition of wanderers. A part of them afterwards had their cabins and their Kircheval, 53. springs in the neighborhood of Winchester. Their principal band removed from their hunting-fields in Kentucky to the head waters of one of the great rivers Lawson, 171. of South Carolina; and, at a later day, an encampment of four hundred and fifty of them, who had been straggling in the woods for four years, was found not Adair, 410. far north of the head waters of the Mobile River, on their way to the c
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXIII (search)
itives from the banks of the Neckar Graffenried, in Williamson and the Rhine. De Graffenried, who had undertaken the establishment of the exiles, accompanied by Lawson, the surveyor-general for the northern province, in September of 1711, ascended the Neuse River in a 1711. Sept. boat, to discover how far it was navigable, and rous council of the principal men from various towns of the tribe, complaint was made of the conduct of the English in Carolina, and especially of the severity of Lawson. He who, with his compass and chain, had marked their territory into lots for settlers, was reproved as the man who sold their land. After a discussion of two dtwo rows; behind them were three hundred of the 1711. people, engaged in festive dances. Yet mercy was mingled with severity; and, if no reprieve was granted to Lawson, yet Graffenried, as the great chieftain of the Palatines, on pledging his people to neutrality, and promising to occupy no land without the consent of the tribe,
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 23: (search)
ornwallis on the twenty-seventh moved his whole force in two 27. columns across the Haw, and encamped near Alle- Chap. XXIII.} 1781. Feb. 27. mance creek. For seven days, Greene lay within ten miles of the British camp, but baffled his enemy by taking a new position every night. No fear of censure could hurry his determined mind. He waited till in March he was joined by the south-west Virginia March. militia under William Campbell, by another brigade of militia from Virginia under General Lawson, by two from North Carolina under Butler and Eaton, and by four hundred regulars raised for eighteen months. Then on the tenth, while Cornwallis was on 10. his march to New Garden or the Quaker meetinghouse, he prepared to hazard an engagement. On the fourteenth, he encamped near Guilford court- 14. house, within eight miles of Cornwallis. At dawn of day on the fifteenth, Cornwallis, having 15. sent off his baggage under escort, set in motion the rest of his army, less than ninete
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