Down to Hughes, got
my horse shod, came back, and nine of us started. Came up near Epperson
Springs, found the Yanks were there and at Scottsville too strong for us. Got
supper at Stinson's, a regular tory. Lamb swapped horses with him. Then started
for New Row. Came across to Bracken's, got breakfast, three of the boys had
left us.
SOURCE: Ephraim
Shelby Dodd, Diary of Ephraim Shelby Dodd: Member of Company D Terry's
Texas Rangers, p. 17
We came this evening
out to where the others were; Yanks in New Row; so we could not go there. Came
to Widow Hodge's. Five of boys went on; two slept in bushes; I and Jim Berryman
slept in house.
SOURCE: Ephraim
Shelby Dodd, Diary of Ephraim Shelby Dodd: Member of Company D Terry's
Texas Rangers, p. 17
Came cross the pike
to Meadows, fed our horses. I, Jim and Lamb started back to Kentucky. We came
cross pike to Mr. Hodges and got supper, then cross railroad and out through
Mitchellville to Norris ten miles from railroad; staid all day and to-night.
SOURCE: Ephraim
Shelby Dodd, Diary of Ephraim Shelby Dodd: Member of Company D Terry's
Texas Rangers, p. 17
Went down to
Finche's and got a horse. Mr. Finch came out with us some distance. Came back
to Norris; staid all night; nothing to eat.
SOURCE: Ephraim
Shelby Dodd, Diary of Ephraim Shelby Dodd: Member of Company D Terry's
Texas Rangers, p. 17
To-night went down
near Redman's; run into Yankee pickets, and started back. Came cross railroad
and out to Sherwin's, got breakfast and on to Boss Meadows. From there to
Hughe's Shop; got two shoes and nails made. Went down to Essick's and got
supper and on top Mountain and staid all night.
SOURCE: Ephraim
Shelby Dodd, Diary of Ephraim Shelby Dodd: Member of Company D Terry's
Texas Rangers, p. 17
This —— got my mare shod, went on, found A. at Henry Mitchell's came back to Hardy Silver's, found the boys and started back to the railroad to get some boots. Took supper with Mr. Hodge and on to Rodimore's; had not the boots; then came back cross pike. I went with Berryman to shop; Hughes not there. I left him, came on to Jack Stewart's. I, Albright and Lamb started back for Granville this evening; came on to Griggs, got supper. From there to Staffords and staid all night.
SOURCE: Ephraim
Shelby Dodd, Diary of Ephraim Shelby Dodd: Member of Company D Terry's
Texas Rangers, p. 17
Met Thompson's and
Staley's men.
SOURCE: Ephraim
Shelby Dodd, Diary of Ephraim Shelby Dodd: Member of Company D Terry's
Texas Rangers, p. 17
Came to
Montgomery's. Lamb left us. We came on to Widow Ballou's. Yanks close at hand.
We staid in bushes to-night.
SOURCE: Ephraim
Shelby Dodd, Diary of Ephraim Shelby Dodd: Member of Company D Terry's
Texas Rangers, p. 18
Went to Dixon
Springs to-day to get a Yankee saddle; had to wait until the two Regiments of
Yankee cavalry and train passed out. We then went in, I and Ward. I went up to
Mr. Alexander's; Miss Mollie knew me, Miss Nannie did not. I took supper and
staid till 10 or 11 o'clock and left. Came back to Mrs. Ballou's.
SOURCE: Ephraim
Shelby Dodd, Diary of Ephraim Shelby Dodd: Member of Company D Terry's
Texas Rangers, p. 18
Came to Mr.
Beasley's and staid all night.
SOURCE: Ephraim
Shelby Dodd, Diary of Ephraim Shelby Dodd: Member of Company D Terry's
Texas Rangers, p. 18
Met up with Parker as Lieut. Brown. I got a horse for Mason Rector. Came on to Granville, found Company D there, and that we were published as deserters. Came out near Cookville to-night.
SOURCE: Ephraim
Shelby Dodd, Diary of Ephraim Shelby Dodd: Member of Company D Terry's
Texas Rangers, p. 18
GEARY, JOHN WHITE,
soldier, born near Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland Co., Pa., 30th December, 1819;
died in Harrisburg, Pa., 8th February, 1873. His father was of Scotch-Irish
descent. The son entered Jefferson College, but, on account of his father's
loss of property and sudden death, was compelled to leave and contribute toward
the support of the family. After teaching he became a clerk in a commercial
house in Pittsburgh, and afterward studied mathematics, civil engineering, and
law. He was admitted to the bar, but never practiced his profession. After some
employment as civil engineer in Kentucky, he was appointed assistant
superintendent and engineer of the Alleghany Portage Railroad. When war was declared
with Mexico in 1846, he became lieutenant-colonel of the Second Regiment of
Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, and commanded his regiment at Chapultepec,
where he was wounded, but resumed his command the same day at the attack on the
Belen gate. For this service he was made first commander of the City of Mexico,
and colonel of his regiment. He was appointed in 1849 to be first postmaster of
San Francisco, with authority to establish the postal service throughout
California. He was the first American alcalde of San Francisco, and a
"judge of the first instance." These officers were of Mexican origin,
the "alcalde" combining the authority of sheriff and probate judge
with that of mayor, and the judge of the first instance presiding over a court
with civil and criminal as well as admiralty jurisdiction. Colonel Geary served
until the new constitution abolished these offices. In 1850 he became the first
mayor of San Francisco. He took a leading part in the formation of the
new constitution of California, and was chairman of the Territorial
Democratic Committee.
In 1852 he retired
to his farm in Westmoreland county, Pa., and remained in private life until
1856, when he was appointed Territorial Governor of Kansas, which office he
held one year. He then returned to Pennsylvania, and at the beginning of the
civil war raised the Twenty-eighth Pennsylvania volunteers. He commanded in
several engagements, and won distinction at Bolivar Heights, where he was
wounded. He occupied Leesburg, Va., in March, 1862, and routed General Hill. On
25th April, 1862, he received the commission of Brigadier-General of U. S.
volunteers. He was severely wounded in the arm at Cedar Mountain, 9th August,
1862, and in consequence could not take part in the battle of Antietam. At the
battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg he held the Second Division of the
Twelfth Corps. The corps to which General Geary's regiment was attached joined
the Army of the Cumberland, under General Hooker's command, to aid in repairing
the disaster at Chickamauga, and he took part in the battles of Wauhatchie and
Lookout Mountain, in both of which he was distinguished. He commanded the
Second Division of the Twentieth Corps in Sherman's march to the sea, and was
the first to enter Savannah after its evacuation, 22d December, 1864. In
consideration of his services at Fort Jackson he was appointed Military
Governor of Savannah, and in 1865 he was promoted to be Major-General by
brevet. He was elected Governor of Pennsylvania in 1866, and held this office
until two weeks before his death. During his administration the debt of the
commonwealth was reduced, an effort to take several millions from the sinking
fund of the State bonds was prevented, a disturbance at Williamsport quelled,
and a Bureau of Labor Statistics established by the Legislature, 12th April,
1872. Governor Geary possessed great powers of application and perception,
force of will and soundness of judgment, and was popular among his troops. In
recognition of his service to the State and Nation, the General Assembly
erected a monument at his grave in the cemetery at Harrisburg.
SOURCE: F. G. Adams,
Editor, Transactions of the Kansas State
Historical Society Embracing the Fifth and Sixth Biennial Reports, Vol. 4 1886-1888, pp. 373-4 which states as its source Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography.
SHANNON, Wilson, governor of Ohio and of Kansas, b. in Belmont county, Ohio, 24 Feb., 1802; d. in Lawrence, Kan., 31 Aug., 1877. He was graduated at Athens college, Ohio, and at Transylvania university, Ky., and became a lawyer. He began practice at St. Clairsville, Ohio, and in 1835 was prosecuting attorney for the state. He was governor of Ohio in 1838-'40, and again in 1842-'4, and in 1844 he went as U. S. minister to Mexico. He was a representative in congress in 1853-'5, and territorial governor of Kansas in 1855-'6. During Gov. Shannon's administration in Kansas the troubles between the free-state and pro-slavery parties began to assume a threatening aspect. The governor favored the latter, though he tried to be cautious. He succeeded in peacefully terminating the "Wakarusha war" in 1855, but hostilities were resumed in the following year, ending in the burning of the town of Lawrence by a band of "border ruffians" that had been gathered as a U. S. marshal's posse. Shannon was finally removed, and succeeded by John W. Geary. He subsequently practised law in Lawrence.
SOURCE: James Grant Wilson and John Fiske, Editors, Appleton’s Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. 5, p. 481
COLUMBUS, January 20, 1870.
DEAR SIR: — I am collecting in the Executive Office portraits of the governors of the State. The portraits of sixteen are already on the walls of the office. Those obtained are mainly the pioneer governors — Tiffin, Meigs, Worthington, Morrow, Trimble, McArthur, and others. Some have been presented by relatives and others bought by me with my contingent fund. I am desirous to obtain your portrait. If you have one taken about the time you were governor, a copy of that would be preferred. In some cases originals have been sent by express and copied here and then returned. But, of course, your wishes will control.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 84
COLUMBUS, January 31, 1870.
DEAR UNCLE: — I have been in correspondence with Jay Cooke about his new town of Duluth at the head of Lake Superior. It will be the great town of that region. The Northern Pacific Railroad will begin work there next spring, and finish about three hundred miles as fast as work can do it. A railroad to St. Paul will be completed by the Fourth of July. It will then be the lake port of two-thirds of Minnesota. I want to put in five or six thousand dollars if I can raise it in the next sixty or ninety days. It will double by next fall, and may do a great deal better than that. I can buy on the most favorable terms allowed to anybody, and have my own separate property without mixing up with the company. I don't want you to bother about it at all, but if you see where notes secured by mortgage can raise the money, let me know.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, pp. 84-5
COLUMBUS, January 31, 1870.
MY DEAR SIR: — The present incumbent of the librarianship is a faithful, painstaking old gentleman with a family of invalid girls dependent on him. His courtesy and evident anxiety to accommodate all who visit the library have secured him the endorsement of almost all who are in the habit of using the books; and under the circumstances I cannot remove him. Old associations, your fitness, and claims draw me the other way; but you see, etc., etc.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 85
COLUMBUS, OHIO, January 31, 1870.
MY DEAR SIR: — Having secured portraits of almost all of the early governors, I began a few weeks ago a correspondence with a view to obtaining the portraits of those who are now living. I found there would be no trouble in getting yours. Mr. L'Hommedieu undertook it, and with your friends Jay Cooke, Carson, Yeatman, Hoadly, and Spooner, proposed to present the State as fine a one as they could get. Last Friday I received by express from Chicago a capital picture, three-fourths length — the work of W. Cogswell, — which is perfectly satisfactory to all of your friends who have seen it. It is given to the State by Jay Cooke, and is the finest of the seventeen portraits in the office.
I write this note with a double object: First, to let you know what your friends intended to do, and what one of them has done; second, to learn from you where the original picture was taken — assuming this to be a copy — and by whom.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, pp. 85-6
COLUMBUS, OHIO, February 3, 1870.
MY DEAR SIR: — Your favor of the 31st ult. came duly to hand. I have no information as to the chances of an Insurance Act beyond what the general public possesses. If the appointment you refer to is to be made by me the considerations you suggest will have, as you suppose, due weight. When such qualifications are found, I need hardly say, it will be no objection if the person having them is also a personal friend. Of course, it would be premature to venture on a committal until all sides are heard.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 86
COLUMBUS, OHIO, February 4, 1870.
MY DEAR SIR: — The Soldiers' Orphans' Bill has been under consideration one day in the Senate. No serious opposition has been developed and decided support was given in quarters not heretofore relied on. I entertain no doubt of its passage within a week or ten days through the Senate, and in the House its passage is only a question of time. I anticipate the necessity of naming a board about the last of this month.
Your views of General Keifer and General Barnett are also mine. I think I gave you my notions also of Generals Buckland and Coates. Think over the good loyal Democrats for one name. A well known party man, loyal during the war but in the Democratic party, if he can be found, is preferred if friendly to the institution.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, pp. 86-7
