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James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Appendix B. (search)
,486Burned, League Island. Sea-going turret vessels: Dictator23,033 Puritan43,265 Roanake63,435 Kalamazoo Class. 4 double-turret monitors:43,200 Kalamazoo (Colossus)43,200 Passaconaway (Mass.)43,200 Quinsigamond (Oregon）43,200 Shackamaxon (Nebraska）43,200 Monadnock Class. 4 double-turret monitors:4 XV-in.1,564 Agamenticus (Terror)4 XV-in.1,564 Miantonomoh4 XV-in.1,564 Monadnock4 XV in.1,564 Tonawanda (Amphitrite）4 XV-in.1,564 Onondaga Class. 1 double-turret monitor:41,250 Onondaga41,250Sold. Winnebago Class. 4 double-turret monitors:4970 Chickasaw4970Sold, 1874. Kickapoo (Kewaydin)4970Sold, 1874. Milwaukee4970Sunk (torpedo), March 28, 1865. Winnebago (Tornado)4970Sold. Canonicus Class. 9 single turret vessels:21,034 Canonicus21,034 Catawba21,034Sold, 1868. Mahopac21,034 Manayunk21,034 *** Manhattan21,034 Oneota21,034Sold 1868 Saugus21,034 Tinpecanoe (Wyandotte)21,034 Tecumseh21,034Sunk at Mobile. Passaic Class. 10 single-turret vessels:2 to 484<
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 17: (search)
little democracy. There was no slavery; no favored caste. All men were equal. The union was confirmed by an unwritten compact; the congress of the sachems, at Onondaga, like the Witena-gemots of the Anglo-Saxons, transacted all common business. Authority resided in opinion; law in oral tradition. Honor and esteem enforced obeamnesty of past injuries. Along the war-paths of the Five Nations, down the Susquehannah, and near the highlands of Virginia, the Chap. XVII.} proud Oneida, Onondaga, and Cayuga warriors had left bloody traces of their presence. The impending struggle with New France quickened the desire of renewing peace with the English; aglish, refused to negotiate, but the other nations, jealous of English supremacy, desired to secure independence by balancing the French against the English. An Onondaga chief called Heaven to witness his resentment at English interference. Onondio, he proudly exclaimed to the envoy of New York, Onondio has for ten years been ou
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 20: (search)
Dablon, a missionary, Journal de Dablon who had recently arrived from France. They were Dablon hospitably welcomed at Onondaga, the principal village of the tribe. A general convention was held, by Nov. 5. their desire; and, before the multitudiin their hunt after Huron fugitives, still roamed even to the Isle of Orleans, a company of fifty Frenchmen embarked for Onondaga. 1656. May 7. Diffuse harangues, dances, songs, and feastings, were their welcome from the Indians. In a general convo in the beautiful valleys of Western New York. The Jesuit priests published their faith from the Mohawk to the Genesee, Onondaga remaining the central station. But the savage nature of the tribes was unchanged. At this very time, a ruthless war us zeal was still active. Le Moyne once 1661. more appeared among the Five Nations, and was received with affection at Onondaga. The deputies of the Senecas, the Cayugas, and the Onondagas, assembled to the sound of the bell that had belonged to t
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXI (search)
Salt Springs, Aug. 3. while a party was sent to ravage the country of the Oneidas, with orders to cut up their corn, burn their villages, put to death all who should offer resistance, and take six chiefs as hostages. Meantime, an aged Aug. 8. Onondaga captive, who had refused to fly, was abandoned to the fury of the allies of the French; and never did the marvellous fortitude of an Indian brave display more fully its character of passive grandeur. All the tortures that more than four hundreissioners to be appointed under the treaty of Ryswick. That the Five Nations were always con- Smith, 157 sidered subjects of England, said Bellamont, can be manifested to all the world; but De Callieres, send- 1697 ing ambassadors directly to Onondaga to regulate the exchange of prisoners, avoided an immediate decision. The Iroquois were proud of their independence; France asserted its right to dominion; England claimed to be in possession. Religious sympathies inclined the nations to the F
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXII (search)
e Iroquois, could not say father; they must use a more definite expression. Their nouns implying relation says Brebeuf, always include the signification of one of the three persons of the possessive pronoun. They cannot say father, son, master, sepa- Chap. XXII.} rately; the noun must be limited by including within itself the pronoun for the person to whom it relates. The missionaries could not, therefore, translate the doxology literally, but chanted among the Hurons, and doubtless at Onondaga, Glory be to our Father, and to his Son, and to their Holy Ghost. <*>beuf, 81. Just so, the savage could not say tree, or house; the Edwards. word must always be accompanied by prefixes defining Duponceau, on Zeisberger, 99. its application. The only pronoun which can, with any plausibility, be called an article, is always blended Eliot, Grammar XV. with the noun. In like manner, the languages are defective in terms that express generalizations. Our forests abound, for example,
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 2: (search)
f Canada, insisted on treating with them as the common allies of the French and English; La Galissoniere to Clinton, 25 August, 1748. Shirley to Board of Trade, 28 October, 1748. and proposed direct negotiations with them for liberating their captive warriors. When Clinton and Shirley claimed the delivery of the Iroquois prisoners as subjects of England, the Canadian governor denied their subjection, and sent the letter to be read to the tribes assembled round the grand council-fire at Onondaga. We have ceded our lands to no one, spoke their indignant orator, after due consultation; we hold them of Heaven alone. Acte Authentique, &c., &c., 2 Nov., 1748. N. Y. Paris Doe. x. 8. Still further to secure the affections of the confederacy, it was resolved to establish an Indian mission on the southern bank of the St. Lawrence; and the self-devoted Abbe Francis Picquet, Documentary History of N. Y., i. 423, &c. attracted by the deep and safe harbor, the position at the head of
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 4: (search)
52, her commissioners met chiefs of the Mingoes, Shawnees and Ohio Indians, at Logstown. It was pretended Lieut. Gov. Dinwiddie of Virginia, to Gov. Glen, 23 May, 1753. that chiefs of the Six Nations were present; but at a general meeting at Onondaga, they had resolved that it did not suit their customs to treat of affairs in the woods and weeds. Col. William Johnson to Governor Clinton, 26 March, 1753, in New York Documentary History, II. 624. Plain Facts, 38, 44. We never understood, sf Western Ohio, began the contest that was to scatter death broadcast through the world. All the speeches were delivered again to the deputies of the nations, represented at Logstown, that they might be correctly repeated to the head council at Onondaga. An express messenger from the Miamis hurried across the mountains, bearing to the shrewd and able Dinwiddie, the lieutenant- chap. IV.} 1752. governor of Virginia, a belt of wampum, the scalp of a French Indian, and a feathered pipe, with le
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 5: (search)
in April, near the rapids of the St. Lawrence. Suddenly they beheld a large body of French and Indians, equipped for war, marching towards Ontario; and their two fleetest runners hurried through the forest as messengers to the grand council at Onondaga. In eight-and-forty hours the decision of the council was borne by fresh posts to the nearest English station; and on the nineteenth of April, at midnight, the two Indians from Canajoharie, escorted by Mohawk warriors, that filled the air with. They accepted the tokens of peace. They agreed to look upon Virginia and Carolina as also present. We thank you, said Hendrick, the great Mohawk chief, we thank you for renewing and brightening the covenant chain. We will take this belt to Onondaga, where our council-fire always burns, and keep it so securely that neither the thunderbolt nor the lightning shall break it. Strengthen yourselves, and bring as many as you can into this covenant chain. You desired us to open our minds and hear
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 6: (search)
most convenient harbor on the Atlantic, with bays expanding on either hand, and a navigable river penetrating the interior, it held the keys of Canada and the Lakes. Crown Point and Niagara, monuments of French ambition, were encroachments upon its limits. Its unsurveyed inland frontier, sweeping round on the north, disputed with New Hampshire the land between Lake Champlain and the Connecticut, and extended into unmea- chap. VI.} 1754. sured distances in the west. Within its bosom, at Onondaga, burned the council-fire of the Six Nations, whose irregular bands had seated themselves near Montreal, on the northern shore of Ontario, and on the Ohio; whose hunters roamed over the Northwest and the West; whose war-parties had for ages strolled to Carolina. Here were concentrated by far the most important Indian relations, round which the great idea of a general union was shaping itself into a reality. It was to still the hereditary warfare of the Six Nations with the Southern Indians
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 13: (search)
exchanged in the autumn. Better success awaited Bradstreet. From the majority in a council of war, he extorted a reluctant leave to proceed against Fort Frontenac. At the Oneida carrying-place, Brigadier Stanwix placed under his command twenty-seven hundred men, all Americans, more than eleven hundred of them New Yorkers, nearly seven hundred from Massachusetts. There, too, were assembled one hundred and fifty warriors of the Six Nations; among them Red Head, the renowned war-chief of Onondaga. Inspired by his eloquence in council, two-and-forty of them took Bradstreet for their friend and grasped the hatchet as his companions. At Oswego, towards which they moved with celerity, there remained scarce a vestige of the English fort; of the French there was no memorial but a large wooden cross. As the Ameri- chap. XIII.} 1758. cans gazed with extreme pleasure on the scene around them, they were told that farther west, in Genesee and Canasadaga, there were lands as fertile, rich
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