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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: December 15, 1865., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
John F. Hume, The abolitionists together with personal memories of the struggle for human rights 2 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 2 0 Browse Search
Col. Robert White, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 2.2, West Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 2 0 Browse Search
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War 2 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 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 II. 2 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), West Virginia, state of (search)
h, and Kentucky and Ohio on the west. Area, 24,780 square miles in fifty-four counties. Population, 1890, 762,794; 1900, 958,800. Capital, Charleston. Harper's Ferry established as a ferry......1748 Baptist church formed at Opequon, Berkeley county, under charge of Rev. John Gerard, from New England......1754 Battle of the Trough, near Moorefield. A small band of settlers pursuing Indians under Kill Buck are hemmed in between mountain and river, and obliged to retreat with loss of government takes place at Wheeling......June 20, 1863 Supreme Court of Appeals organized at Wheeling......July 9, 1863 Gen. W. W. Averill defeats Maj. John Echols in battle of Droop Mountain......Nov. 6, 1863 Transfer of the counties of Berkeley (Aug. 5, 1863) and Jefferson (Nov. 2, 1863) from the State of Virginia to West Virginia is recognized by joint resolution of Congress......March 10, 1866 Amendments to State constitution ratified, excluding from citizenship all who had, subse
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Zane, Ebenezer 1747-1811 (search)
Zane, Ebenezer 1747-1811 Pioneer; born in Berkeley county, Va., Oct. 7, 1747; established the first permanent settlement on the Ohio River in 1770, at the present site of Wheeling. He there built Fort Henry, which later sustained several attacks by the Indians; was disbursing officer for Lord Dunmore; and promoted colonel. He was proprietor of the present site of Zanesville, on the Muskingum River. He died in Wheeling, W. Va., in 1811. See Zanesville.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 245 (search)
rnment, in its administration, is destructive of the legitimate ends of all Governments, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it ; but in so doing the people must be consulted, and they will ever take care that the Government they have established shall not be changed for light and transient causes. Nothing has occurred to warrant or justify the change in our Government proposed by the ordinances of our Convention. Adopting the language of our fellow-citizens of the county of Berkeley, at their late mass meeting, we can truthfully declare: That we have never yet agreed to break our allegiance to that Constitution which was signed by George Washington, framed by James Madison, administered by Jefferson, judicially expounded by John Marshall, protected by Jackson, defended by Webster, and lived for by Clay. That we have never known Virginia save as a State in the United States; and all our feelings of State pride are indelibly associated with her, as a bright star
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, Pennsylvania Volunteers. (search)
t 2 by disease. 195th Pennsylvania Regiment Infantry. Organized at Camp Curtin for 100 days July 24, 1864. Moved to Baltimore, Md., July 24, thence to Monocacy Junction July 28. Attached to 3rd Separate Brigade, 8th Corps, Middle Department, to August, 1864. 1st Separate Brigade, 8th Corps, to October, 1864. Reserve Division, Dept. of West Virginia, to November, 1864. Service. Guard bridge and railroad at Monocacy Junction, Md., till October. Guard duty in Berkeley County, W. Va., along B. & O. Railroad till November. Mustered out November 4, 1864. Regiment reorganized for one year February, 1865. (A Detachment of first Regiment was on duty guarding Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, with Headquarters at North Mountain Station, October, 1864, to March 16, 1865.) Ordered to Charlestown, W. Va., March 31, 1865. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, West Virginia, to July, 1865. Dept. of Washington, D. C., 22nd Corps, to January, 1865. Service.
John F. Hume, The abolitionists together with personal memories of the struggle for human rights, Appendix: Emancipation proclamation (search)
ely are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit: Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana (except the Parishes of St. Bernard, Plaquemines, Jefferson, St. John, St. Charles, St. James, Ascension, Assumption, Terre Bonne, Lafourche, St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the City of New Orleans), Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, (except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Ann, and Norfolk and Portsmouth) and which excepted parts are for the present left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued. And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be, free, and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities th
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 8 (search)
igned (disability), Dec. 2, 1864. First Lieutenant, 1st Battalion Frontier Cavalry, Mass. Volunteers, or 26th N. Y. Cavalry, Jan. 18, 1865. Captain, 3d Mass. Cavalry, Feb. 16, 1865. Mustered out, Sept. 28, 1865. Second Lieutenant, 7th U. S. Cavalry, Mar. 7, 1867. See U. S. Army. Crafts, Frederick. Private and First Sergeant, 10th Kan. Infantry, Aug. 7, 1861. First Lieutenant, 1st Indian Home Guards, Sept. 10, 1862. Mustered out, May 31, 1865. Crane, Alexander Baxter. Born at Berkeley, Bristol County, Mass., Apr. 23, 1833. Captain, 85th Ind. Infantry, Sept. 2, 1862. Lieut. Colonel, Sept. 7, 1862. Commissioned Colonel, July 24, 1864; not mustered. Mustered out, June 18, 1865, as Lieut. Colonel. Cranston, Arthur. Born in Massachusetts. Private, 7th Ohio Infantry, Apr. 25, 1861, to Aug. 22, 1861. Second Lieutenant, 55th Ohio Infantry, Oct. 16, 1861. Resigned, Mar. 15, 1862. Cadet, U. S. Military Academy, July 1, 1862. Second Lieutenant, 4th U. S. Artillery, June
Col. Robert White, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 2.2, West Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 1: (search)
rebellion. ... The Senate admitted your senators, not as representing a new and nameless State, now for the first time heard of in our history, but as representing the good old commonwealth. The constitutional convention met at Wheeling, November 26, 1861, and, influenced more by the success of the United States army than by the grave objections urged by Bates, framed a new constitution, which was ratified May 3, 1862, by the qualified voters of forty-eight of the old Virginia counties. Berkeley and Jefferson counties were subsequently added. The mountain counties of Morgan, Hampshire, Hardy, Pendleton, Pocahontas, Greenbrier, Monroe, Mercer and McDowell (including the present counties of Mineral, Grant and Summers), did not participate in the initial movement, but were included in the formation of the new State. At the election of May 3d, Pierpont also was elected governor of Virginia, to fill the unexpired term of Governor Letcher, and he continued to administer the affairs of
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical (search)
eace was secured he served as a member of the commission for the removal of the Spanish forces from Cuba. Brigadier-General Ellison Capers Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, a descendant of an English family which settled in South Carolina among the earliest colonists, was born in Charleston, October 14, 1837. His father, grandfather and several generations of the name, belonged to the parishes of St. Thomas and St. Denis, in Charleston county, in the territory originally called Berkeley county. His mother was of Irish extraction, her father, William McGill, having settled in Kershaw county, upon coming from Ireland. William Capers, the grandfather of Ellison, was a soldier of the revolution, a lieutenant in the Second South Carolina regiment, and after the fall of Charleston in 1780, one of Marion's captains in his famous partisan brigade, in which his only brother, G. Sinclair Capers, held the same rank. Several thrilling incidents in the career of these two gallant parti
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
and in the final operations in the Carolinas was severely wounded at the battle of Averasboro. In 1872 Captain Smith engaged in the naval store business at Charleston and followed that occupation until 1885, when he was appointed auditor of Berkeley county for four years. Subsequently he filled an unexpired term as clerk of the court, and held the same office four years by election. In 1895-97 he held the office of United States commissioner, and since then he has been engaged in planting. Hin of one known as Company F, Seventh South Carolina cavalry. He was in all engagements in which his regiment participated. After the surrender he returned to the practice of medicine and farming at Georgetown until 1885, when he removed to Berkley county, practicing and farming there until 1891, when he changed his home to Kingstree, where he has since engaged in his profession and farming as before. He was born in Marion county November 18, 1833, and was married in 1856 to Miss Mary Jane Cu
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Hagood's brigade: its services in the trenches of Petersburg, Virginia, 1864. (search)
Hagood's brigade: its services in the trenches of Petersburg, Virginia, 1864. [An address by General Johnson Hagood before the Survivors' Association of Charleston District, South Carolina, April 12, 1887, at Charleston, South Carolina.] The Survivors' Association of Charleston District, including the present county of Berkeley, held its annual meeting at the German Artillery Hall April 12, 1887. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, W. Aiken Kelly; First Vice-President, John S. Fairly; Second Vice-President, A. G. Magrath, Jr.; Third Vice-President, Zimmerman Davis; Fourth VicePresi-dent, D. B. Gilliland; Secretary, J. W. Ward; Treasurer, H. F. Faber. The following ex-Confederates were admitted to membership: F. W. Wagener, James F. Izlar, F. L. Meyer, F. C. Schulz, E. T. Legare, W. W. White, F. W. Lesemann, W. H. Bartless, A. H. Prince, Joseph Riddock, James Campbell, W. H. Sutcliffe, Louis Elias, Wade H. Manning, the Rev. Robert Wilson, D.
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