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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 4: military operations in Western Virginia, and on the sea-coast (search)
with tents, tent-poles, working utensils, and ammunition, in his efforts to lighten his wagons. Benham pressed his rear heavily through Fayetteville, and on the road toward Raleigh; and near the latter place he struck the Confederate rear-guard of four hundred cavalry, under Colonel Croghan, St. George Croghan was a son of the eminent Colonel George Croghan, who so gallantly defended Fort; Stephenson, at lower Sandusky, in the War of 1812. His family were residing in Newburgh, on the Hudson River, at this time. who was mortally wounded. Onward Floyd sped, with Benham close at his heels; but the pursuit was ended near Raleigh, after a thirty miles' race, by the recall of Benham, and the fugitive escaped to Peterston, full fifty miles southward from his point of departure. He soon afterward took leave of his army, in a stirring proclamation, praising his men for their courage and fidelity, and reminding them that for five months hard contested battles and skirmishes, were matter
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Colonial settlements. (search)
s River—both in compliment to their King. After various vicissitudes, the settlement flourished, and, in 1619, the first representative Assembly in Virginia was held at Jamestown. Then were laid the foundations of the State of Virginia (q. v.). Manhattan Island (now the borough of Manhattan, city of New York) was discovered by Henry Hudson in 1609, while employed by the Dutch East India Company. Dutch traders were soon afterwards seated there and on the site of Albany, 150 miles up the Hudson River. The government of Holland granted exclusive privilege to Amsterdam merchants to traffic with the Indians on the Hudson, and the country was called New Netherland. The Dutch West India Company was formed in 1621, with unrestricted control over New Netherland. They bought Manhattan Island of the Indians for about $24, paid chiefly in cheap trinkets, and in 1623 thirty families from Holland landed there and began a settlement. Then were laid the foundations of the State of New York, as
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Jogues, Isaac 1607- (search)
Jogues, Isaac 1607- Missionary; born at Orleans, France, Jan. 10, 1607; became a Jesuit at Rouen in 1624; was ordained in 1636; and, at his own request, was immediately sent to Canada. He was a most earnest missionary among the Indians on both sides of the Lakes. Caught, tortured, and made a slave by the Mohawks, he remained with them until 1643, when he escaped to Albany, and was taken to Manhattan. Returning to Europe, he was shipwrecked on the English coast. He returned to Canada in 1646, where he concluded a treaty between the French and the Mohawks. Visiting Lake George, he named it St. Sacrament, and, descending the Hudson River to Albany, he went among the Mohawks as a missionary, who seized and put him to death as a sorcerer, at Caughnawaga, N. Y., Oct. 18, 1646.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Sweden, founding of (search)
Acadia, or New Scotland, and also King Gustaf Adolph. extended westward from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean: all this was included in New England. The rest remained under Virginia. About the same time the Hollanders undertook to steal into these American harbors. They took a fancy to the shores of the bay called by the Indians Menahados, and the river Mohaan. Evidently, the Mohawk, although we do not anywhere else find that river so called. The connection would indicate the Hudson River, but that is never so designated, but was called by the natives the Cohatatea or Oiogue. Henry Hudson, an Englishman in the service of the Holland East India Company, had first discovered those places, and called the bay after his own name, Hudson's Bay. This East India Company, in the year 1608, sold its right to the country, which it based upon its priority of discovery, to some Hollanders. These obtained from the States-General of Holland an exclusive privilege (privilegiumn exclusiv
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Spain, War with (search)
Spain formally accepted the President's terms of peace. Aug. 12. The peace protocol was signed and an armistice was proclaimed. The blockade of Cuba was raised. Aug. 13. Manila surrendered to the American forces after a short land fight and bombardment by the fleet. Aug. 20. Imposing naval demonstration in the harbor of New York. The battleships Iowa, Indiana, Massachusetts, Oregon, and Texas, and cruisers New York and Brooklyn, amid a great popular ovation, steamed up the Hudson River to Grant's tomb and saluted. Aug. 30. General Merritt sailed from Manila for Paris to attend the peace conference. Sept. 9. United States peace commissioners were appointed. They sailed for France Sept. 17. Sept. 10. The United States Cuban evacuation commissioners arrived at Havana. Sept. 13. Admiral Cervera and other Spanish naval officers sailed for Spain. Sept. 18. Spanish peace commissioners were announced. Sept. 20. The evacuation of Porto Rico by the Spaniards
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
England, Nov. 7, 1594; discovers Frobisher's Strait......July 21, 1576 Drake, Sir Francis, born in England in 1537 (?); died in Puerto Bello, Dec. 27, 1595; explores the coast of California in 1578-79; first Englishman to sail around the globe, reaching England......1580 Davis, John, born in England in 1550; died on the coast of Malacca in 1605; discoverer of Davis's Strait in 1585; of the Falkland Islands......1592 Hudson, Henry, born in England; discoverer and explorer of the Hudson River in the interests of the Dutch, September, 1609, and Hudson Bay in 1611. Sent adrift in an open boat by his crew and never heard of afterwards......1611 under the Continental Congress For previous history see each State separately. Pursuant to arrangements made by committees appointed in the colonies to confer regarding the interests and safety of the colonies, and termed committees of correspondence, delegates were chosen for the first Continental Congress, to meet at Philadelp
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
hama, will be 5,573 nautical miles. The cable will, however, be divided into three sections, — from San Francisco to Honolulu, 2,093 miles; from Honolulu to Midway Island, 1,220; and from Midway Island to Yokohama, 2,260 miles. a, Fig. 6243, is the Ohio River cable. It is composed of an interior wire of No. 10 Swedish iron, surrounded by three coats of gutta-percha and three of Osnaburg, the whole inclosed in No. 10 longitudinal wires, and lashed with one of similar size. b is the Hudson River cable. It has three No. 10 conducting wires, each insulated by a gutta-percha covering inclosed in the same material, and is wrapped with tarred yarn. c is an improvement on this, the wires being separated by solid gutta-percha incorporated in one mass with that which envelops all three. This is covered with tarred hempen twine. d e is the Dover and Calais cable, the first of importance laid in Europe, composed of four interior copper wires surrounded by gutta-percha covered with
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Index (search)
rg, 161. Hiawatha, 187, 221, 258; commenced, 208; newspapers on, 209. Hillard, George S., 168, 284. Hilliard, Gray & Co., 69. Hingham, Mass., 61. Hirm, Me., 12. Holm, Saxe, 122. Holmes, Dr., Oliver Wendell, 1, 6, 57, 68, 146, 197, 273, 285, 294; on Evangeline, 194; on Longfellow, 287. Home Circle, the, quoted, 279. Homer, 5, 235. Hook, Theodore, 10. Horace, 19, 45. Howe, Dr. Samuel G., 284. Howe family, 214. Howells, William D., 126, 198; on Kavanagh, 200. Hudson River, 132, 248. Hughes, Mr., 96. Hugo, Victor, 3, 5, Humphreys, David, 23. Hunt, Helen, 122. Huron, Lake, 209. Hyperion, 55, 112, 113, 127, 134, 137-139, 171, 175, 260, 288; new literary style in, 70; development of, 124; criticism of, 125, 126; turgid rhetoric of, 128. India, 215. Indians, 18, 79, 129,132; Longfellow's plea for, 21; Longfellow plans poem about, 207, 208. Innsbruck, 223. Interlaken, 8. Irving, Washington, 7, 18, 46, 68, 80, 89, 132, 133, 249; Longfellow im
The Daily Dispatch: December 31, 1860., [Electronic resource], American steamer in Chinese waters. (search)
Dr. Charles B. Mitchell was elected, on the 21st inst., a Senator in Congress, from the State of Arkansas, for six years from the 4th of March next. The law office of Daniel Marr, near Campbell Court-House, Va., together with all his library, bonds, papers, &c., was consumed by fire on the night of the 28th inst. Thomas J. Holton, editor of the Charlotte, (N. C) Whig, died on the 27th inst., from being thrown from his buggy a few days before. Soup Houses were opened in Philadelphia on Christmas. Only eleven persons called the first day, and they received 33 pints of soup. The ice on the Hudson river at Troy, N. Y., was from six to eight inches thick on Monday last. A letter from Vienna states that Baron Rothschild has won four-fifths of the great prize--30,000 florins — in the State lottery. Louis A. Deville, of New York, committed suicide at the City Hotel, in Augusta, Ga., on the 27th inst., by cutting his throat.
The Daily Dispatch: March 7, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
sual course of study to befit a man to practice medicine, received their medical diplomas from the hands of the lady President of the institute. The proceedings include the usual programme on such occasions, namely: the reading of the Thesis by one of the graduates, the conferring of degrees, the valedictory, addresses, &c. There are said to be at present one hundred and fifty-four thousand tons of ice, varying from twelve to eighteen inches in thickness, stored in ice-houses on the Hudson river. An official report to Congress shows that the whole number of rebel prisoners of war who have enlisted in the Union service thus far is about three thousand nine hundred. Most of them are now serving in the Northwestern Department. The Goodyear rubber case has about fallen through. The Senate Patent Committee have declined to go into the case; and as the House committee are averse to any extension, it will now doubtless be thrown open to the public. The board now in sess