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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 6 6 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Slocum, Henry Warner 1827-1894 (search)
vision. He served with distinction in the campaign on the Peninsula, in 1862, and on July 4, 1862, he was promoted major-general. In the battle of Groveton (or second battle of Bull Run), at South Mountain, and Antietam, he was signally active, and in October, 1862, was assigned to the command of the 12th Corps, which he led at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg. At the latter he commanded the right wing of Meade's army. From September, 1863, to April, 1864, he guarded the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad, and in the Atlanta campaign commanded the 20th Corps. In the march to the sea he commanded one of the grand divisions of Sherman's army; also through the Carolinas, until the surrender of Johnston. He resigned Sept. 28, 1865; was defeated as Democratic candidate for secretary of state of New York in 1865; was a Presidential elector in 1868; elected .to Congress in 1868 and 1870, and as Representative at large in 1884. He died in Brooklyn, N. Y., April 14, 1894.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Trials. (search)
the presbytery of New York for new trial, May 30, 1892; Professor Briggs acquitted after a trial of nineteen days......Dec. 30, 1892 John Y. McKane, Gravesend, L. I., for election frauds; convicted and sentenced to Sing Sing for six years......Feb. 19, 1894 Miss Madeline V. Pollard, for breach of promise, against Representative W. C. P. Breckinridge, of Kentucky; damages, $50,000; trial begun March 8, 1894, at Washington, D. C.; verdict of $15,000 for Miss Pollard, Saturday......April 14, 1894 Patrick Eugene Prendergast, for the murder of Carter Harrison, mayor of Chicago, Oct. 28, 1893; plea of defence, insanity; jury find him sane and he is hanged......July 13, 1894 Eugene V. Debs, president American Railroad Union, charged with conspiracy in directing great strike on the Western railroads, and acquitted......1894 [He was sentenced to six months imprisonment for contempt of court in violating its injunction in 1895.] William R. Laidlaw, Jr., v. Russell Sage, for
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
1894 Kelly's army, augmented to 1,200 men, seizes a Union Pacific Railroad train of twenty coal-cars, and proceeds eastward......April 12, 1894 Senator Zebulon B. Vance, of North Carolina, dies at Washington, D. C., aged sixty-four......April 14, 1894 Gen. Henry W. Slocum dies at his home in Brooklyn, aged sixty-six......April 14, 1894 Henry S. Ives, nicknamed the Napoleon of finance, dies of consumption near Asheville, N. C.......April 17, 1894 Ex-Gov. Thomas J. Jarvis, appointedApril 14, 1894 Henry S. Ives, nicknamed the Napoleon of finance, dies of consumption near Asheville, N. C.......April 17, 1894 Ex-Gov. Thomas J. Jarvis, appointed April 19 to succeed the late Senator Vance, of North Carolina, qualifies......April 26, 1894 General Coxey's army of commonwealers arrives at Brightwood Park, near Washington, D. C.......April 29, 1894 Francis B. Stockbridge, United States Senator from Michigan, dies at Chicago, aged sixty-eight......April 30, 1894 Leaders of Coxey's army arrested for trespassing on the grounds of the Capitol, and imprisoned......May 1, 1894 Canadian revenue-cutter Petrel seizes two American steambo
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), North Carolina, (search)
ace at Elizabeth City; and incorporating a soldiers' home for needy Confederate soldiers at Camp Russell, near Raleigh. Session begins Jan. 8 and closes......March 9, 1891 Gov. Daniel G. Fowle dies suddenly of apoplexy at Raleigh, April 7, and Lieut. Gov. Thomas Holt is sworn in......April 8, 1891 Southern inter-State exposition opens at Raleigh......Oct. 1, 1891 Ex-Gov. William Worth Holden dies at Raleigh, aged seventy-four......March 1, 1892 Col. L. L. Polk, president of the National Farmers' Alliance, dies at Washington, D. C.......June 11, 1892 Attempted lynching at Bakersville; eleven of the sheriff's posse killed......Jan. 4, 1893 New State seal ordered......1893 Zebulon B. Vance, United States Senator, dies at Washington, aged sixty-four......April 14, 1894 Race riots at Wilmington......Nov. 10, 1898 The Dismal Swamp opened......Oct. 14, 1899 Amendment to the constitution regulating the suffrage went into effect......July 1, 1901 North Dakota
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Vance, Zebulon Baird -1894 (search)
Vance, Zebulon Baird -1894 Legislator; born near Asheville, N. C., May 13, 1830; received a collegiate education; admitted to the bar in 1852; elected to Congress in 1858 and re-elected in 1859; strongly opposed the secession of his native State, but afterwards entered the Confederate army as colonel; and was elected governor of North Carolina in 1862. While in office he purchased a Clyde steamship, which successfully ran the blockade several times, landing clothing, arms, and general supplies. In 1863 he advocated peace negotiations with the national government, and urged Jefferson Davis to seek a cessation of hostilities. He was re-elected governor in 1864 and 1876; and was United States Senator from North Carolina in 1879-94. He died in Washington, D. C., April 14, 1894.