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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
dependent treasury system re-enacted......Aug. 6, 1846 Wisconsin authorized to form a constitution and State government......Aug. 6, 1846 Bill with the Wilmot proviso attached passes the House by 85 to 79 (no vote in the Senate)......Aug. 8, 1846 Act establishing the Smithsonian Institution approved......Aug. 10, 1846 First session adjourns......Aug. 10, 1846 Brigadier-General Kearny takes peaceable possession of Santa Fe......Aug. 18, 1846 Gen. Zachary Taylor captures Monterey, Mexico, after a three days battle or siege......Sept. 24, 1846 Second session assembles......Dec. 7, 1846 Iowa admitted as the twenty-ninth State......Dec. 28, 1846 Battle of San Gabriel, Cal., fought......Jan. 8, 1847 Congress authorizes ten additional regiments for the regular army......Feb. 11, 1847 Battle of Buena Vista......Feb. 22-23, 1847 Battle of Sacramento......Feb. 28, 1847 Congress resolves to light with gas the Capitol and Capitol grounds......March 3, 1847
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Worth, William Jenkins 1794-1849 (search)
d in the battles of Chippewa and at Lundy's Lane, in July, 1814, and was severely wounded in the latter contest. He was in command of cadets at West Point from 1820 to 1828, and in 1838 was made colonel of the 8th United States Infantry. He served in the Seminole War from 1840 to 1842, and was in command of the army in Florida in 1841-42. He was brevetted a brigadiergeneral in March, 1842, commanded a brigade under General Taylor in Mexico in 1846, and was distinguished in the capture of Monterey. In 1847-48 he commanded a division, under General Scott, in the capture of Vera Cruz, and in the battles from Cerro Gordo to the assault and capture of the city of Mexico. He was brevetted major-general, and was presented with a sword by Congress, by the States of New York and Louisiana, and by his native county, Columbia. A monument was erected to his memory at the junction of Broadway and Fifth Avenue, New York City, by the corporation of that city. He died in San Antonio, Tex., May
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 2 (search)
is not improbable they may allow us to occupy Monterey without opposition, but I cannot think the wa miles in the interior, and about half-way to Monterey. This place is situated just at the foot ois point the army intended to operate against Monterey. It consists of— Eight regiments of regulWell, here we are within twenty-five miles of Monterey, one day's forced march, and two easy ones, awill go further, and that the capitulation of Monterey will, like the convention of Cintra, prove moons of his energy will all be realized. Monterey, Mexico, October 27, 1846. General Taylor toldhia, and that you would know all about him. Monterey, November 24, 1846. My last letter was dateem to appreciate the value of the victory of Monterey. By the battles of the Palo Alto and Resaca,ope is true. As I told you before we went to Monterey, the more we meet the better; for if we succe large enough, with the natural advantages of Monterey, to keep off the whole army of Mexico, so lon[71 more...]
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 3 (search)
uced, a man of sound judgment wrote from Washington: I have had great pleasure in learning here accounts of Mr. Meade, the same as you mention; that is to say, that he is in high estimation in the army, and known to everybody. Lieutenant Luther spoke of him to Mrs. Wise, she tells me, as a most efficient officer, much consulted, employed and relied upon. Major—— appeared to me very shy of giving him credit on fit occasions. For instance, I heard him speak of General Worth's operations at Monterey. He said General Worth had a plan or map before him, of positions, routes, etc., but did not say a word of Mr. Meade, who probably furnished the map, and at all events, the materials for it. This morning, however, he showed incidentally in a general talk we had about military matters and the Topographical Corps, that he knew well Mr. Meade's merits and his distinguished position. He quoted what General Worth had said about Mr. Meade's value, and his courage and bravery, and also said (whe
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), Index. (search)
26, 327, 335; II, 146. Mercier, Mr., I, 267; II, 163. Mercer, Chas. F., I, 387. Meredith, Owen, II, 243. Meredith, Solomon, II, 46, 47, 49, 52, 60. Merritt, Wesley, II, 65, 95, 281, 383. Mexico, City of, battle of, 1847, I, 196. Middletons, I, 9. Milhau, John J., II, 285. Mill Springs, battle of, Jan. 19, 1862, I, 243. Mine Run campaign, Nov., 1863, II, 156-159, 201, 373-377. Mitchell, Wm. G., II, 38. Monk, Lord, II, 289. Monroe, James, I, 387, 389. Monterey, battle of, Sept. 20-24, 1846, I, 132-139, 149, 151, 163-165. Moore, Alex., II, 332. Morrell, G. W., I, 12, 276, 280, 320, 355. Morris, Robert, I, 3. Morris, Jr., Robert, I, 334, 384. Morrow, A. P., I, 389. Motley, Mr., II, 148. Moylan, Stephen, I, 3. Mudge, Chas. R., II, 102. Muhlenberg, Edward D., II, 98, 101. Muller, Dr., I, 76. Munroe, John, I, 95. N Naglee, Henry M., I, 12. Naglee, James, I, 284. Napoleon I, I, 153, 353; II, 325. Napole
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 194 (search)
Erthman; H, Capt. Dennison; I, Capt. Tyre; J, Capt. Humphrey Bate. The Carolina Grays (Capt. Hunt) is the flag company of the regiment. The regiment is called the Walker legion, in compliment to the Secretary of State of the Southern Confederacy. The Colonel is from Gallatin county, is a distinguished lawyer, and a man of undoubted ability; besides, he has acquired fame on the bloody fields of Mexico. The Lieutenant-Colonel (of Sumner county) was one of the first to scale the walls of Monterey at the siege of that place by the Americans. Major Doak is also an old Mexican volunteer, and a member of the Tennessee Legislature. M. W. Cluskey, the Quartermaster, (of the Memphis Avalanche,) is well known to the whole country as the author of the Political Text book, and former Postmaster of the United States House of Representatives; while the surgeons of the regiment are both members of the Legislature, and leading members of their profession. The regiment is made up of citizens of
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 2: Mission Indians. (search)
k and waste of nature, even as this altar of San Carlos is a wreck and waste of art. For twenty cents, laid out in whisky, you may hear the story of his life, and in that tale the romance of his tribe. A youth when the first Spaniards came to Monterey, Capitan Carlos saw Fray Junipero Serra land his company of friars, Don Jose Rivera land his regiment of troops. The Spaniards had already built a Mission house at San Diego, and were creeping upward towards the Golden Gate; but no Carmelo Indiiked, he flung them from him when he liked. An Indian female had no rights. Poor souls, they knew no better in those pagan days, before San Carlos sent his message to their tribe! Capitan Carlos saw a band of friars come over the ridge from Monterey, and plant a cross in ground belonging to his tribe. A cross appeared to be the White man's totem; for beside a great cross borne aloft, each father wore a small cross at his belt; which he raised and pressed to his lips whenever he either s
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 5: Don Mariano. (search)
my biography is the history of California. In one sense he is right. Don Mariano's story is that of nearly every Mexican of rank. In olden times (now thirty years ago!) he was the largest holder of land in California. Besides his place at Monterey, the family-seat, he owned a sheep-run on San Benito River, an estate sixty miles long in San Joaquin Valley, a whole county on San Pablo Bay, and many smaller tracts in other parts. High mountain ranges stood within the boundaries of his esta twenty he has won his captain's grade, from which time he has his part in every row, and got a grade by every change. One year he helped the radicals to harass Spain; next year he helped the Jesuits to upset those radicals. When the bishop of Monterey denounced the new republic, Mariano, Catholic first, Mexican afterwards, followed his pastor into civil war. Captured by the enemy, who put him into handcuffs, he was so indignant that he shaved his beard, renounced his title of a Spanish don,
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Fourth: orations and political speeches. (search)
seized, with pilfering rapacity, the defenceless province of California. It is by virtue of this Act, that General Kearney has marched upon and captured Santa Fe. It is by virtue of this Act, that General Taylor has perpetrated the massacre at Monterey. It is by virtue of this Act, that desolation has been carried into a thousand homes,—that mothers, sisters, daughters and wives have been plunged in the comfortless despair of bloody bereavement, while the uncoffined bodies of sons, brothers ahave been made to declare an unjust and cowardly war, with falsehood, in the cause of slavery. Through you, they have been made partakers in the blockade of Vera Cruz, in the seizure of California, in the capture of Santa Fe, in the bloodshed of Monterey. It were idle to suppose that the poor soldier, or officer only, is stained by this guilt. It reaches far back, and incarnadines the Halls of Congress; nay more, through you, it reddens the hands of your constituents in Boston. Pardon this la
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Vii. (search)
seized, with pilfering rapacity, the defenceless province of California. It is by virtue of this Act, that General Kearney has marched upon and captured Santa Fe. It is by virtue of this Act, that General Taylor has perpetrated the massacre at Monterey. It is by virtue of this Act, that desolation has been carried into a thousand homes,—that mothers, sisters, daughters and wives have been plunged in the comfortless despair of bloody bereavement, while the uncoffined bodies of sons, brothers ahave been made to declare an unjust and cowardly war, with falsehood, in the cause of slavery. Through you, they have been made partakers in the blockade of Vera Cruz, in the seizure of California, in the capture of Santa Fe, in the bloodshed of Monterey. It were idle to suppose that the poor soldier, or officer only, is stained by this guilt. It reaches far back, and incarnadines the Halls of Congress; nay more, through you, it reddens the hands of your constituents in Boston. Pardon this la
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