Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...able paper entitled The Presidency and Mr. Reed. It is a thoughtful presentation of the requirements of the presidential office and a discussion of Mr. Reed's fitness for it. It is the first of a promised series upon the issues and some of the personalities of the forthcoming campaign...
...private in the 12th regiment, New York State national guard, and went to the front at the first call. In September, 1862, he was made brigadier general for bravery. He was wounded at Antietam, and again at Gettysburg, where he was taken prisoner. He participated in the final Potomac campaign with Gen. Grant and was present at the Confederate surrender. In 1865 he was elected secretary of state of New York, serving till 1868, when Grant appointed him marshal for the southern district of the state. In 1871 he was elected attorneygeneral of New York, serving through 1873. From that...
...peculiar interest attaches to the campaign through its wildly picturesque and beautiful surroundings, but in the military ability displayed by the great leaders, and in the reckless courage of the troops, Chattanooga has become a monument to the defenders of the Union. Its strategie results cannot be overestimated. Grant, having crushed one flank and the centre of the Confederacy, was now called to crush the one vigorous point of resistance, Lee in Virignia...
...triumphant Federal advance. At Champion's Hill he was routed and again at Black River Bridge. The remnants of the force were hurled back into their fortifications, and Haines's Bluff, outflanked, surrendered. Here Grant established the base which he had dispensed with for the famouse eleven days campaign...
...large audience which considerably overflowed the seating capacity of Sanders Theatre last night was a marked compliment to the distinguished scholar and historian who addressed it. The lecture of the evening was an intellingent, scholarly, and extremely interesting survey of the early Western campaign and brought into relief in a vivid, instructive, though necessarily brief fashion, the personalities of the principal military leaders on both sides. Dr. Fiske held the close attention of his hearers to the end, and all who were present will await with great interest the subsequent lecutures...