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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 103 (search)
it was accomplished by nightfall at a point called Tyson's Creek. Here we found that the enemy had destroyed a bridge which we were obliged to cross if we kept on our present line of retreat, and had also planted artillery on the opposite bank, apparently determined to make a most obstinate resistance to our further progress. Taking advantage of the darkness, General Potter moved his column down the creek, and instead of going through Greenville, as the enemy might have supposed, took the Snowhill road, one that runs in a different direction. This adroit movement seemed to perplex the enemy for a little while; but in a short time, amid all the darkness, he was heard to approach, and the firing of his cannon told us that we had been betrayed by guides, who had proclaimed their loyalty to the Union and said they were ready to seal it with their lives. The enemy kept on harassing our rear, occasionally doing a little execution, wounding a few men and killing a few horses, until we r
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 189 (search)
Purnel Legion, a portion of the Sixth Michigan, the Seventeenth Massachusetts, and some companies of the Second Delaware regiment. The United States revenue gunboat Hercules, Rufus Coffin, Lieutenant commanding, arrived in port about ten o'clock yesterday, from a cruise in Pocomoke Bay and Tangier's Sound, and brings information from the eastern shore of Virginia up to Monday night. Brigadier-General Lockwood was still at Newtown, with five thousand men, and also had one thousand men at Snowhill. He designed marching to Drummondtown and establishing there his Headquarters. The place was held by a squadron of cavalry, and the national flag was waving over it. The greater proportion of the inhabitants are Union in feeling, and received the proclamation of Maj.-Gen. Dix with delight. In a few days General Lockwood would move into Northampton County, with a force sufficient to overcome any opposition from the secessionists, who would be obliged to succumb. Lieutenant Coffin l
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 14: (search)
be his character. He is now nearly forty, and, when quite young, lived several years in America, chiefly in Virginia, but a little while at our Dorchester. . . . Godwin is as far removed from everything feverish and exciting as if his head had never been filled with anything but geometry. He is now about sixty-five, stout, well-built, and unbroken by age, with a cool, dogged manner, exactly opposite to everything I had imagined of the author of St. Leon and Caleb Williams. He lives on Snowhill, just about where Evelina's vulgar relations lived. His family is supported partly by the labors of his own pen and partly by those of his wife's, but chiefly by the profits of a shop for children's books, which she keeps and manages to considerable advantage. She is a spirited, active woman, who controls the house, I suspect, pretty well; and when I looked at Godwin, and saw with what cool obstinacy he adhered to everything he had once assumed, and what a cold selfishness lay at the bott
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order, chapter 4 (search)
etser's alley, 1798; Sweetser's court, 1809, Chickering place, 1855 Extended south, 1838; north, 1846 and 1852; a part Lincoln court, 1820, Church street, 1828 Foster's lane, 1732; extended to Commercial street, 1846, Clark street, 1788 Snowhill to Margaret, Margaret avenue, 1814, Cleaveland place, 1814 Between Essex, Summer, Short, and South; built over, (Coffin's field,) 1775 Washington Gardens, previous Row, remains, Colonade gone, (Colonade row,) 1810 Long Wharf to Clintonchool, 1759; Cornhill to Tremont, 1803, School street, 1708 Scollay's Buildings, 1809; building removed, 1870, Scollays square, 1838 Dover to Roxbury; Suffolk, 1834; Dover to Castle, 1849; to Tremont, 1870, Shawmut avenue, 1851 Salem to Snowhill, 1806; unchanged, Sheafe street, 1732 Prince to Charter street, at Hudson's point, Snowhill street, 1708 From Southac's court to Beacon street, Somerset street, 1803 Summer street to the sea; to Beach, 1837; to Lehi, 1852, South street,