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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
Thomas C. DeLeon, Four years in Rebel capitals: an inside view of life in the southern confederacy, from birth to death. 2 0 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 2 0 Browse Search
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 2 0 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 4: The Cavalry (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 2 0 Browse Search
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1 2 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1: prelminary narrative 2 0 Browse Search
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that he would make the most desperate efforts to regain it. He could not hope to do so without detaching a considerable force from Lee's army, and to induce General Lee thus to weaken his army was one of our principal objects in the movement. The following letter found on the body of General William E. Jones, killed at Piedmont, indicates the views and expectations of the enemy: headquarters, Valley District, June 1, 1864. General: This will be handed to you by General Means, of Shenandoah, who goes to meet you at my request, and will state to you fully the condition of affairs in the valley. I am holding out every inducement I can to Hunter to follow me up as far as Mount Crawford. If he does, and we can get him on a run, we can ruin him. He is playing devilish cautious, however, and may not take the bait. Colonel Jackson telegraphed me last night that the enemy in Greenbrier was moving, he believed in the direction of Staunton. If so, I can, with North river in my fr
Washington, D. C. North Atlantic Squadron, U. S. Flag-ship Malvern, at sea, off New Inlet, N. C., December 26, 1864. sir — I was in hopes I should have been able to present to the nation Fort Fisher and surrounding works as a Christmas offering, but I am sorry to say it has not been taken yet. I attacked it on the twenty-fourth instant with the Ironsides, Canonicus, Mahopac, Monadnock, Minnesota, Colorado, Mohican, Tuscarora, Wabash, Susquehanna, Brooklyn, Powhatan, Juniata, Seneca, Shenandoah, Pawtuxet, Ticonderoga, Mackinaw, Maumee, Yantic, Kansas, Iosco, Quaker City, Monticello, Rhode Island, Sassacus, Chippewa, Osceola, Tacony, Pontoosuc, Santiago de Cuba, Fort Jackson, and Vanderbilt, having a reserve of small vessels, consisting of the Aries, Howquah, Wilderness, Cherokee, A. D. Vance, Anemone, Aeolus, Gettysburg, Alabama, Keystone State, Banshee, Emma, Lillian, Tristram Shandy, Britannia, Governor Buckingham, and Nansemond. Previous to making the attack, a torpedo on a
L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion, Part 2: daring enterprises of officers and men. (search)
lances (some of them marked Stonewall Brigade ), sixteen hundred small arms, several battle flags, fifteen hundred prisoners, and probably two thousand killed and wounded. Our own losses were: Crook's command, one hundred killed and wounded, and seven hundred prisoners; the Ninteenth Corps, sixteen hundred killed and wounded, and one hundred prisoners; the Sixth Corps, thirteen hundred killed and wounded; total, three thousand eight hundred. The only reinforcement which the Army of the Shenandoah received, or needed to recover its lost field of battle, camps, intrenchments, and cannon was one man-Sheridan. Refusing to volunteer in the rebel army. In the same prison with Parson Brownlow and other Unionists in Tennessee, was a venerable clergyman, named Cate, and his three sons. One of them, James Madison Cate, a most exemplary and worthy member of the Baptist church, was there for having committed no other crime than that of refusing to volunteer in the rebel army. He lay st
lances (some of them marked Stonewall Brigade ), sixteen hundred small arms, several battle flags, fifteen hundred prisoners, and probably two thousand killed and wounded. Our own losses were: Crook's command, one hundred killed and wounded, and seven hundred prisoners; the Ninteenth Corps, sixteen hundred killed and wounded, and one hundred prisoners; the Sixth Corps, thirteen hundred killed and wounded; total, three thousand eight hundred. The only reinforcement which the Army of the Shenandoah received, or needed to recover its lost field of battle, camps, intrenchments, and cannon was one man-Sheridan. Refusing to volunteer in the rebel army. In the same prison with Parson Brownlow and other Unionists in Tennessee, was a venerable clergyman, named Cate, and his three sons. One of them, James Madison Cate, a most exemplary and worthy member of the Baptist church, was there for having committed no other crime than that of refusing to volunteer in the rebel army. He lay st
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
ss it is otherwise stated, the theatres and dates given with the titles of plays apply to initial New York productions. Shenandoah (Star Theatre, 9 September, 1889) by Bronson Howard, The girl I left behind Me (Empire Theatre, 25 January, 1893) by Da in his 'prentice days, took him a piece called Drum-Taps, —which was to supply more than one comedy—scene to the later Shenandoah,—the New York manager did not dare to risk a play on so American a theme as the Civil War. He returned it to the young l laws of drama, and outlining the conventional traditions against which he worked. He was never able to escape them. Shenandoah (9 September, 1889) was more national than most of his work. To its preparation he brought that scholarly orderliness h Wallack successes, and was thus early exhibiting his ability to pick plays and players by corralling Bronson Howard's Shenandoah (9 September, 1889)—his first real production in New York. William Gillette began his career as playwright in 1881;
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
(Verplanck), 543 Shakespeare and Voltaire, 486 Shakespearean wars, 486, 487 Shakespeare, as a dramatic artist, 486 Shakespeare's scholar, 482 Sharps and Flats, 27, 28 Shattuck, L., 439 Shaughraun, the, 268 Shaw, Albert, 361 Shaw, G. B., 286, 294 Shaw, H. W., 22, 30 Shaw Memorial ode, the, 35 Shea, J. D. G., 179, 180 Shedd, W. G. T., 201, 203, 229, 229 n Sheffield apprentice, the, 510 Sheldon, Edward, 267, 293, 294, 296 Shelley, 41, 43, 64, 109, 260 Shenandoah, 266, 269, 275, 278 Shepherd's contemplation, the, 430 Sheridan, P. H., 96, 126, 182 Sheridan, 50 Sheridan's ride, 48 Sherlock Holmes, 286 Sherman, Frank Dempster, 52 Sherman, John, 343, 351, 363 Sherman, Roger, 427 Sherman, W. T., 182 Sherman, 50 Sherwin, 500 Sherzer, Jane, 480 n. Shifting and Incidence of taxation, the, 443 Ship in the desert, the, 154 Sho-gun, the, 289 Shore Acres, 285 Short, Charles Lancaster, 461, 463 Short history of paper money
upon three small regiments (the 36th Mass., the 8th Michigan and the 45th Pennsylvania), which narrowly escaped capture, the 36th being at this time under command of Maj. (afterwards general) W. F. Draper. In the siege of Knoxville, Tenn., the 21st, 29th, 35th and 36th Infantry were all engaged, with small losses for each; and it was the pickets of the 36th, under command of Capt. T. E. Ames of Co. B, which discovered and reported the raising of the siege by General Longstreet. Xxiii. Shenandoah campaigns. In the earlier portions of the war Massachusetts regiments took no part in the western campaigns, but an important part in the battle of Shiloh or Pittsburg landing Some military critics hold that the fate of the Confederacy was determined on the fields of Shiloh. (Johnson's Short History of the War of Secession, p. 143.) (April 6, 1862) was performed by Col. Everett Peabody of the 25th Missouri, a Massachusetts man and a Harvard graduate. He at that time commanded a briga
91, 92; II, 71, 166. Scott, Virginia, II, 249. Scott, Walter, I, 13, 91. Scott, Winfield, II, 249. Sears, Mrs. M., II, 210. Seattle, II, 133. Seeley, J. R., I, 313, 314; II, 6. Sembrich, Marcella, II, 269. Severance, Caroline M., I, 291; II, 9. Seward, W. H., I, 192, 246. Sforza Cesarini, Duchess, II, 175, 176. Shakespeare, William, II, 262, 330. Sharp, William, II, 169. Shedlock, Miss, II, 289. Shelby, I, 377. Shelley, P. B., I, 68; II, 237. Shenandoah, I, 274. Shenstone, William, I, 13. Sherborn Prison, II, 159. Sheridan, Philip, I, 274. Sherman, John, I, 239. Sherman, W. T., I, 274; II, 380. Sherwood, Mrs., John, II, 73. Siberia, II, 187. Sicily, II, 408. Sienkiewicz, Henryk, II, 304. Silsbee, Mrs., I, 264. Singleton, Violet Fane, II, 5. Siouz, I, 380. Sirani, Elisabetta, II, 27. Sistine Chapel, I, 269. Smalley, Mrs., II, 168. Smiley, Albert, II, 326. Smith, Amy, I, 4. Smith, Mrs. E
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, I. List of officers from Massachusetts in United States Navy, 1861 to 1865. (search)
ed.Actg. Master. Oct. 28, 1864.Actg. Master.Shenandoah; Muscoota.West Gulf. Borden, Hiram C., S.Mass.Mass.Jan. 30, 1863.Actg. Master's Mate.Shenandoah.North Atlantic.Aug. 26, 1865.Hon. dischargedP.,Mass.Mass.Mass.Apr. 21, 1864.Actg. Ensign.Shenandoah.South Atlantic.Sept. 15, 1865.Hon. dischargeonian; Jamestown; Vermont; Ashuelot; Cohoes; Shenandoah; Supply.Apr. 28, 1869.Hon. discharged.Actg. ss.—--, 1861.3d Asst. Engr.Kanawha; Alabama; Shenandoah.West Gulf; W. India; South Atlantic.--- Octg. 25, 1863.Actg. 2d Asst. Engr. Britannia; Shenandoah.East Gulf.July 5, 1865.Hon. discharged.Actg.na.West Gulf.--- May 2, 1863.1st Asst. Engr.Shenandoah; Saco.North Atlantic. Hodgdon, Charles A.,-.Mass.Mass.Jan. 6, 1865.Actg. 3d Asst. Engr.Shenandoah.South Atlantic.May 15, 69.Hon. discharged.Act. 1, 1864.Actg. 3d Asst. Engr.A. D. Vance; Shenandoah.No. Atlantic; So. Atlantic.Apr. 28, 1869.Hos.Mass.Mass.—--, 1861.Midshipman.Macedonian; Shenandoah.School Ship; So. Atlantic.--- Aug. 1,‘62.Li[1 more...
April 27, 1863, p. 2, col. 2. Fisher's Hill, Va. Battle of Sept. 21, 22, 1864. See also Shenandoah and Sheridan. — Battle of Sept. 21, 22, 1864. Army and Navy Journal, vol. 2, p. 81. — – at Port Royal. Edw. L. Pierce. Atlantic, vol. 12, p. 291. Front Royal, Va. See also Shenandoah. —Shenandoah valley, May 25, 1862. 2d Regt. M. V. I. Boston Evening Journal, May 26, 1862, expectation of marching orders. Boston Evening Journal, Sept. 18, 1861, p. 4, col. 4. — – Shenandoah, 1862. Letter from camp near Winchester, Va., March 19; good details. Boston Evening Journal Evening Journal, June 2, 1862, p. 4. col. 3. Infantry, continued. 2d Regt. Mass. Vol. Shenandoah, 1862. Retreat of May. Reports of Gen. Geo. H. Gordon and Lieut.-Col. Geo. L. Andrews. Bosto pp. 473, 476, 482. — – Aug. 24. Winchester, Va. Army and Navy Journal, vol. 3, p. 17. Shenandoah, U. S. steamer. Cruise of, in English waters. N. Y. Nation, vol. 15, p. 248. —