Harper's weekly (1865) (14761328151)

Identifier: harpersweeklyv9bonn (find matches)
Title: Harper's weekly
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Bonner, John, 1828-1899 Curtis, George William, 1824-1892 Alden, Henry Mills, 1836-1919 Conant, Samuel Stillman, 1831-1885? Schuyler, Montgomery, 1843-1914 Foord, John, 1842-1922 Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916 Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906 Nelson, Henry Loomis, 1846-1908 Bangs, John Kendrick, 1862-1922 Harvey, George Brinton McClellan, 1864-1928 Hapgood, Norman, 1868-1937
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Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant



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iv-vu:,h iy 21, 1821; was educa-a\v, but at the breakingout of the war with Mexico be entered the militaryservice, though so late that he saw but little activeBervice. Upon his return he was elected to theKentucky Congress, and in 1851 to the United StatesCongress. In 185G he was elected Vice-President, Elected (lining moit of Ih4, 1801. Towardover to the Ci.iif.-d-T.-iU-!. , he held his seat Extra Se-.-ion hoginnhu; July -1 ilh i.MinjMi^i) in Kentucky.1 kuLlo of .Stone River, having Federal garrisonRouge and was repulsed. His later campaigns in East Tennessee or in Virginia haw i>«t 1 -hi him any enviable distinction as a military officer.It remains to be seen what he can accomplish asConfederate Secretary of War. GENERAL N. B. FORRKST West. He has been connected of tin- Confederate raids ho He had a brigade of cavalry at FortDonelson, and to prevent being captured with thegarrison he cut his way out with a portion of Mb ■ l<vl.lv-drlrmlc.lh.wn a- he did ll;.li A;.:in;.lliH
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MILITARY EXECUTION NEAR CITY POINT, January 27, 1865. John R. Hamilton.—(See i HARPERS WEEKLY. (February 18, 18G5. A MILITARY EXECUTION. We illustrate on page 109 the military execution.,l i.iiv.ilc Nkwi--ll W Ilni.T, alius George H.Mauris, for the crime of desertion, at City Point, ■ Till LeesOrder No. M5, be had made his waythrough the- rebel linos and found bis way to Louisa, Kentucky, where he was arrested while attemptingto pa>s himself oil as one of their deserters. He last. Seventy of these have already been arrested,fifteen executed, and unrelenting martial law is stillon the track of the remainder. MILITAKY PRISONS IN CHAKLES-jTON, SOUTH CAROLINA. We give on page i1* two illustrations represent-ing the pri-ous in which our officers have been con-fined ut Charleston, S. C. In last August the jailand yard were occupied by six hundred army andnavy officers, who were placed under the fire of ourbatteries on Morris Island. They were occupied at Work-house and Koper Hospital