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George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 6 (search)
m as the best mode of obtaining all the facts of the case. I then read them my official report, and after numerous questions by Mr. Loan, who evidently wished to find flaws, I was permitted to leave. Mr. Chandler promised me to apply for the testimony taken by the court, and to let me know the answer given. In case the Department refuse, I shall then submit to the committee a copy of my testimony, as my statement of the case. I asked the committee to call before them General Hunt and Colonel Duane, two of my staff; but these officers came out laughing, and said as soon as they began to say anything that was unfavorable to Burnside, they stopped them and said that was enough, clearly showing they only wanted to hear evidence of one kind. I don't intend to worry myself, but shall just let them take their course and do as they please; but I must try and find some friend in the Senate who will call for the proceedings of the court, and have them published. Mr. Cowan, from Pennsylvan
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), Index. (search)
eo., II, 48, 50, 51. Doolittle, Mr., I, 379. Dorr, Mr., II, 168. Doubleday, Abner, I, 196, 349; II, 33, 39, 46, 47, 52, 54, 63, 89, 100, 169, 170, 172, 173, 176, 240, 320, 324, 390, 396-405, 407, 413, 417-422. Douglas, Stephen A., II, 288. Dow, E. B., II, 85. Doyle, Major-Gen., II, 233. Doyle, Sir, Hastings, II, 285. Drainesville, engagement of, Dec. 20, 1861, I, 236-240; II, 313. Drayton, Percival, I, 9, 228. Drayton, Thomas F., I, 228. Draytons, I, 9. Duane, Col., II, 254. Duff, Mr., II, 254. Duncan, Col., I, 134, 195. Dunn, Lieut., II, 237. Du Pont, Admiral, I, 205, 366, 367. Du Pont, A. F., I, 227. Du Pont, Henry, I, 9. Duvals, I, 9. Dwight, Gen., II, 281. E Early, Jubal A., I, 196; II, 19, 20, 22, 24, 26, 27, 42, 45, 48, 50, 57, 60, 61, 69, 92, 93, 99, 100, 107, 222, 230. Eaton, Joseph H., I, 12. Ellicott, Col., I, 271. Ellis, Rudolph, I, 384. Ellis, Mrs. Thos. La R. (Appolline), I, 353. El Palo Alto
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865, Chapter 38: (search)
de—and the 18th, concentrated in the immediate rear of Burnside, were actively to support the movement. Hancock's corps was likewise concentrated as a support, for the same purpose, on the lines temporarily vacated by the 18th; and Sheridan, with all the cavalry assembled in the quarter of Deep Bottom, was to move strenuously against the Confederate right by the roads leading into Petersburg from the south and west. Even the pontoon train was held in readiness, under the Chief-Engineer, Major Duane, to accompany the movement, and Engineer officers were assigned to each corps for the operation. The artillery of all kinds was to open upon those points of the Confederate works covering the ground of movement of the Federal troops. See General Meade's orders, July 29th, 1864, to be found in Conduct of the War (1865), vol. i., pp. 32, 33. The whole force thus made disposable for the operation consisted, according to General Meade's testimony, of nearly 50,000 men, General Meade's
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 1 (search)
Washington, November 14, 1862. Lieutenant Comstock: I have received your two telegrams to-day. Captain Spaulding has arrived, and thirty-six pontoons have arrived. Forty men are expected in the morning. Captain Spaulding received Captain Duane's order of the sixth on the afternoon of the twelfth. Our pontoon train can be got ready to start on Sunday or Monday morning (November sixteenth or seventeenth), depending some-what upon the Quartermaster's Department. General Halleck is nos after the arrival of the pontoons in Washington from the Upper Potomac. From the report of Colonel Spaulding, who had charge of the pontoons, and from other sources of information. I learned that the order of the sixth of November, from Captain Duane, of the Staff of General McClellan, to move from Berlin to Washington with his train, was not received by Colonel Spaulding until the twelfth instant; that he then at once gave the necessary directions for carrying out the order, after which
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 19: Grant's overland campaign against Richmond (search)
chments, and that at 7.20 P. M. he assaulted and carried the principal line before Petersburg. In the same despatch he tells us that he had ridden over the conquered lines with Grant, and found them to be more difficult even to take than was Missionary Ridge ; that none of Lee's army had reached Petersburg when Smith stormed it, but that they seemed to be there the morning afterwards, making arrangements to hold the west side of the Appomattox. He commends the pontoon — bridge built by Major Duane, nearly seven hundred yards long, as of the most admirable solidity. By the 19th it became evident that Smith's work was incomplete, and that the enemy had constructed an inner line covering Petersburg, which he meant to hold if possible. According to Dana, it was to meet this condition of affairs that Grant again ordered a general assault, which was, as usual, unsuccessful; that the fighting had not been equal to our previous fighting, owing to our heavy loss in superior officers ; t
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Index (search)
m L., 98. Deer Creek Bayou, 207. De Golyer scheme, 450. Denison, Ann, 1, 2, 3. Denison, David, 3. Denison, Governor, 354. DeShroon's Landing, 208, 216, 217. De Tocqueville, 72. Dial, the, 42, 50. Diderot, 158. Dinwiddie Court-House, 356. Dodge, General G. M., 406. Dosoris, 507, 508. Doughface, 128, 130. Douglas, Stephen A., 98, 125, 126, 136, 151, 153, 199, 228. Douglass, Frederick, 102. Downing, 52. Dred Scott decision, 150. Drouillard, J. P., 263, 264. Duane, Major, 330. Dunbar, Mr., 50. Dwight, John S., 45, 51. Dyer, General, 351, 352. E. Early, General, 336, 339, 341, 346, 365. Eckert, Major Thomas T., 368, 501. Edie, John R., 352. Education of Dana, 12, et seq. Effort to extradite Dana to Washington, 433. Electoral Commission, 442-445, 462. Eliot, Congressman, 295, 311. Emancipation of labor, 103. Emancipation Proclamation, 117, 169. Emerson, 19, 21, 26, 33, 35. Enfranchisement of negroes, 383. England, 71, 90, 1
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War, Authorities. (search)
a., June 10-July 3, 1864 62, 6 Resaca, Ga., May 14-15, 1864 61, 10 Rome Cross-Roads, Ga., May 16, 1864 61, 12 Ruff's Mill, Ga., July 4, 1864 61, 11 Dorr, F. W.: Washington, D. C., June-July, 1861 6, 1 Doull, Alexander: Hanover Court-House, Va., May 23, 1862 21, 4 Drury, C. W.: Dinwiddie Court-House, Va., March 31, 1865 74, 2 Shenandoah Valley Campaign, Aug. 7-Nov. 28, 1864 69, 1,2 Drury, George W. B.: Mobile, Ala., 1865 105, 1 Duane, James C.: Antietam, Md., Sept. 16-17, 1862 28, 2 Appomattox Campaign 76, 5 Bethesda Church, Va., June 1-3, 1864 55, 5 Canvas pontoon boats, bridges, chess wagons 106, 1 Mine, the (Petersburg, Va.), July 30, 1864 64, 1, 2 North Anna River, Va., May 22-27, 1864 55, 4 Spotsylvania Court-House, Va., May 8-21, 1864 55, 2, 3 Totopotomoy River, Va., May 28-31, 1864 55, 5 Wilderness, Va., May 5-7, 1864 55, 1 Dunning, S. W.: Meridian (Miss.
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 6: (search)
ntelligence, proposed John Morin Scott and Alexander Macdougall. Fitter candidates could not have been found; but they were both passed over by a great majority, and the committee nominated Philip Chap. VI.} 1774. July. Livingston, Alsop, Low, Duane, and Jay for the approval of the people. Of these five, Livingston as yet dreaded the thought of independence; Alsop was incompetent; Low was at heart a tory, as at a later day he avowed; Duane, justly eminent as a lawyer, was embarrassed by larDuane, justly eminent as a lawyer, was embarrassed by large speculations in Vermont lands, from which he could derive no profit but through the power of the crown. The mass of the inhabitants resolved to defeat this selection. On Wednesday, the sixth of July, many of them, especially mechanics, assembled in the Fields, and with Macdougall in the chair, they recommended the Boston policy of suspending trade, and approved a general congress, to which, after the example of Virginia, they proposed to elect representatives by a colonial convention. I
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 11: (search)
lonies, answered to the call. Peyton Randolph, late speaker of the assembly of Virginia, was nominated president by Lynch of Carolina, and was unanimously chosen. The body then named itself the congress, and its chairman the president. Jay and Duane would have selected a secretary from among the members themselves, but they found no support; and on the motion of Lynch, Charles Thomson was appointed without further opposition. The measures that were to have divided America bound them closelylect their king; that American claims were derived from the British constitution rather than from the law of nature. But Sherman of Connecticut deduced allegiance from consent, without which the colonies were not bound by the act of settlement. Duane, like Rutledge, shrunk back from the appeal to the law of nature, and founded the power of government on property in land. Behind all these views lay the question of the power of parliament over the colonies. Dickinson, not yet a member of co
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 12: (search)
included in the list of grievances. The Virginians had never meant to own the binding force of the acts of navigation; the proposal to recognise them came from Duane, of New York; and encountered the strongest opposition. Some wished to deny altogether the authority of parliament; others, its power of taxation; others, its pow into great length, and seemed to promise no agreement; till, at last, John Adams was persuaded to shape a compromise in the spirit and very nearly in the words of Duane. His resolution ran thus: From the necessity of the case, and a regard to the mutual interest of the countries, we cheerfully consent to the operation of such actblood, than the man who now addresses you. His scheme held out a hope of a continental union, which was the long cherished policy of New York; it was seconded by Duane, and advocated by Jay; but opposed by Lee Chap. XII.} 1774. Sept. of Virginia. Patrick Henry objected to entrusting the power of taxation to a council to be chos
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