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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., chapter 19 (search)
of the Nicaragua Transit Company, thereby arresting all American travel to and from California through that country, and cutting himself off from all hope of further recruiting his forces from the throngs of sanguine or of baffled gold-seekers, who might otherwise have been attracted to his standard. Yet he maintained the unequal contest for about two years, succumbing at last to a coalition of the Central American States, and surrendering his remnant of some two hundred men at Rivas May 1, 1857. By the interposition of Commander C. H. Davis, of our sloop of war St. Mary's, on the Pacific coast, he and sixteen of his party were brought away unharmed, and landed at Panama, whence he returned to this country, and immediately commenced at New Orleans the fitting out of a new Nicaraguan military expedition. Here he was arrested, and compelled to give bonds in the sum of two thousand dollars to desist from unlawful enterprises; notwithstanding which, he very soon left that city on a
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 5: California, New York, and Kansas. 1857-1859. (search)
Chapter 5: California, New York, and Kansas. 1857-1859. Having closed the bank at San Francisco on the 1st day of May, 1857, accompanied by my family I embarked in the steamer Sonora for Panama, crossed the isthmus, and sailed to New York, whence we proceeded to Lancaster, Ohio, where Mrs. Sherman and the family stopped, and I went on to St. Louis. I found there that some changes had been made in the parent-house, that Mr. Lucas had bought out his partner, Captain Symonds, and that the firm's name had been changed to that of James H. Lucas & Co. It had also been arranged that an office or branch was to be established in New York City, of which I was to have charge, on pretty much the same terms and conditions as in the previous San Francisco firm. Mr. Lucas, Major Turner, and I, agreed to meet in New York, soon after the 4th of July. We met accordingly at the Metropolitan Hotel, selected an office, No. 12 Wall Street, purchased the necessary furniture, and engaged a tell
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Filibuster, (search)
lker led a filibustering expedition into Lower California in 1853, but was obliged to retreat and surrendered to the United States authorities of Santiago. He was tried under the neutrality laws and acquitted May 15, 1854. The next year Walker was invited to Nicaragua by one of the local factions. He landed on the Pacific coast of Nicaragua, May 4, 1855, and defeated the Nicaraguans in a battle at Virgin Bay, Sept. 1, 1855. Walker forced his election as President of Nicaragua, but on May 1, 1857, he surrendered to the United States sloop-of-war Mary and was taken to New Orleans. In November of that year he again invaded Nicaragua, but was compelled to surrender to the United States frigate Wabash. On Aug. 5, 1860, Walker again landed at Truxillo, Honduras, but after short successes was eventually defeated, captured, tried, and shot Oct. 12, 1860. For many years prior to the American-Spanish War quite a number of filibustering expeditions were fitted out in the United States
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 23: civil officers. (search)
53, 1854. George Meacham, 1853. John Taylor, 1853. Henry M. Chamberlain, 1854, 1859. Henry S. Hills, 1854. Linus A. Phillips, 1854. William A. Saunders, 1854, 1867. John B. Cook, 1855, 1856. Isaac Cutler, 1855-1857. John Dudley, 1855. James W. Gates, 1855. Joseph R. Knight, 1855. George H. Davies, 1856-1858. Isaac Davis, 1856. George W. Fifield, 1856, 1857. Edward T. Whitney, 1856-1858. John B. Atwill, 1857-1860. James G. Hovey, 1857. John Remick, Elected May 1, 1857, in place of James G. Hovey, deceased. 1857, 1858. Knowlton S. Chaffee, 1858, 1859. Chester W. Kingsley, 1858. Thomas G. Rice, 1858. James P. Richardson, 1858-1860. Solomon Sargent, 1858. Albion K. P. Welch, 1858, 1859. Josiah Burrage, 1859, 1860. Francis L. Chapman, 1859, 1860, 1864-1866. Alex. Dickinson, 1859, 1860. David Ellis, 1859, 1860. Michael C. Kenney, 1859. Lewis Hall, 1860. Samuel Slocomb, 1860, 1861. Albert Vinal, 1860, 1861. Andrew S. Waitt, 18