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This Day in Goodlove History, October 24, 2014
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Surnames associated with the name Goodlove have been spelled the following different ways; Cutliff, Cutloaf, Cutlofe, Cutloff, Cutlove, Cutlow, Godlib, Godlof, Godlop, Godlove, Goodfriend, Goodlove, Gotleb, Gotlib, Gotlibowicz, Gotlibs, Gotlieb, Gotlob, Gotlobe, Gotloeb, Gotthilf, Gottlieb, Gottliebova, Gottlob, Gottlober, Gottlow, Gutfrajnd, Gutleben, Gutlove
The Chronology of the Goodlove, Godlove, Gottlob, Gottlober, Gottlieb (Germany, Russia, Czech etc.), and Allied Families of Battaile, (France), Crawford (Scotland), Harrison (England), Jackson (Ireland), Jefferson, LeClere (France), Lefevre (France), McKinnon (Scotland), Plantagenets (England), Smith (England), Stephenson (England?), Vance (Ireland from Normandy), Washington, Winch (England, traditionally Wales), including correspondence with George Rogers Clark, and including ancestors William Henry Harrison, Andrew Jackson, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Adams, John Quincy Adams and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Martin Van Buren, Teddy Roosevelt, U.S. Grant, Benjamin Harrison “The Signer”, Benjamin Harrison, Jimmy Carter, Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, William Taft, John Tyler (10th President), James Polk (11th President)Zachary Taylor, and Abraham Lincoln.
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The Goodlove/Godlove/Gottlieb families and their connection to the Cohenim/Surname project:
• New Address! http://wwwfamilytreedna.com/public/goodlove/default.aspx
• • Books written about our unique DNA include:
• “Abraham’s Children, Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People” by Jon Entine.
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• “ DNA & Tradition, The Genetic Link to the Ancient Hebrews” by Rabbi Yaakov Kleiman, 2004.
Birthdays on October 24….
HORATIO G. BANES
Donald D. Beebe
Thomas Gatewood
Ebenezer Hemenway
Charles LeFevre
Kathy M. Marugg
Benjamin F. Mckinnon
Mary Smith
Richard J. Topinka
October 24, 69: At the Second Battle of Bedriacum, forces under Antonius Primus, the commander of the Danube armies, loyal to Vespasian, defeat the forces of Emperor Vitellius. This victory help paved the way for Vespasian to become Emperor of the Roman Empire. According to Jewish mythology, it was Yoachanah Ben Zachai’s prediction that Vespasian would attain this goal, that led to him being able to establish the academy at Yavneh. Vespasian turned matters around Jerusalem to his son Titus who would destroy the Temple within the year.[1]
69 ERETZ ISRAEL
Johanan ben Zaccai received permission from Vespasian to retire with the rabbinical leaders of his generation to Yabneh. There the foundation was laid, for the survival of the Jewish people in dispersed communities without a central Temple. Their proclamations included the replacement of sacrifices by charity, repentance, and the fixation of initially set prayers (the Amidah, Shemah and Alenu). In addition they began the establishment of an educational system for children, the fixing of the Biblical cannon and the separation between Judaism and Christianity. [2]
End of the Second Temple period: Josephus speaks of about twenty thousand priests who held various positions in the Temple at the end of the Second Temple period, when the total number of Jews throughout Judaea may have reached one and a half to two million.
October 24, 1537: Jane Seymour
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Jane Seymour, portrait by Hans Holbein, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Queen consort of England
Tenure
May 30, 1536 – October 24, 1537
[3]
Proclamation
June 4, 1536
Spouse
Henry VIII of England
Issue
Edward VI of England
House
House of Tudor (by marriage)
Father
John Seymour
Mother
Margery Wentworth
Born
c. 1508
Died
October 24, 1537 (aged 28–29)
Hampton Court Palace
Signature
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Religion
Roman Catholicism
Jane Seymour (c. 1508 – October 24, 1537) was Queen of England as the third wife of King Henry VIII. She succeeded Anne Boleyn as queen consort following the latter's execution for high treason, incest and adultery in May 1536. She died of postnatal complications less than two weeks after the birth of her only child, a son who reigned as Edward VI. She was the only one of Henry's wives to receive a queen's funeral, and his only consort to be buried beside him in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, as she was the only consort to have a male heir to survive infancy.[4]
Jane Seymour died on October 24, 1537 at Hampton Court Palace at Kingston upon Thames.[11]
Funeral
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Jane Seymour's arms as queen consort[20] [5]
Vacant
Title last held by
Anne Boleyn
Queen consort of England
Lady of Ireland
May 30, 1536 – October 24, 1537
Vacant
Title next held by
Anne of Cleves
[6]
October 24, 1537 – Jane Seymour dies at Hampton Court of childbed fever. [7]
1538: John HARRISON of Cambridge
ABT 1470 - ABT 1538
Repository ID Number: I978
◾RESIDENCE: St. Andrews, Cambridgeshire, England
◾BIRTH: ABT 1470, St Andrews, Cambridgeshire, ENG [S836]
◾DEATH: ABT 1538, St. Andrews, Cambridgeshire, ENG
◾RESOURCES: See: [S9] [S461] [S836]
Family 1 :
1. + Peter HARRISON Of Cambridge
2. + Hugh HARRISON Of London
3. George HARRISON
Notes
Per Worth Ray in TN Cousins:
originally from the Bishopric of Durham (now County Durham) in the northern part of England. By the 15th or 16th centuries there were Harrisons settled all over England, especially to the south. It is not unlikely that John Harrison who made his will there in 1538 while a descendant of the original Harrisons of Durham, was closely related to the Standish and Lancaster Harrisons who had earlier drifted south.
" I believe this John at St. Andrews Cambridge was the common ancestor of Antony of Over and Richard Peter, son of John and died in 1593, was their father. Richard became the father of Benjamin, Clerk of Council in VA, 1630, and Antony of Over was the father of Antony, who, according to Nugent, came to VA in 1630, and is the direct ancestor of the Long, Nash, Halbert and Simonton line. Antony II was the father of Richard Harrison who received a land patent in VA July 6, 1664 (Nugent). He, in turn was the father of Andrew who married Eleanor_________, and left a will in Essex co. VA, 1718." [S9]
Sources
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[S9]
[S461]
[S836]
[S9]
[8]
1538: In 1538 after a bitter battle with the Pope over his first divorce with his first wife Catherine, Henry VIII denounced the authority of the church in Rome. He declared himself the supreme head on earth of the Church in England and demanded the assets of the Roman Catholic faith be liquidated. He sent his men to value the estates of every abbey in the land then he plundered those assets.[9]
October 24, 1539: Louis, Duke of Orléans, born February 3, 1549, died October 24, 1549. [10]
October 24, 1559: When additional French troops arrived in Leith, Edinburgh's seaport, the Protestants responded by retaking Edinburgh. This time, on October 24, 1559, the Scottish nobility formally deposed Mary of Guise from the regency. Her secretary, William Maitland of Lethington, defected to the Protestant side, bringing his administrative skills. From then on, Maitland took over the political tasks, freeing Knox for the role of religious leader. For the final stage of the revolution, Maitland appealed to Scottish patriotism to fight French domination. Following the Treaty of Berwick, support from England finally arrived and by the end of March, a significant English army joined the Scottish Protestant forces. [11]
October 24, 1563: Knox's final encounter with Mary was prompted by an incident at Holyrood. While Mary was absent from Edinburgh on her summer progress in 1563, a crowd forced its way into her private chapel as Mass was being celebrated. During the altercation, the priest's life was threatened. As a result, two of the ringleaders, burgesses of Edinburgh, were scheduled for trial on October 24, 1563. In order to defend these men, Knox sent out letters calling the nobles to convene. Mary obtained one of these letters and asked her advisors if this was not a treasonable act. Stewart and Maitland, wanting to keep good relations with both the Kirk and the Queen, asked Knox to admit he was wrong and to settle the matter quietly. Knox refused and he defended himself in front of Mary and the Privy Council. He argued that he had called a legal, not an illegal, assembly as part of his duties as a minister of the Kirk. After he left, the councillors voted not to charge him with treason.[72]
Final years in Edinburgh, 1564–1572
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St. Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh, where Knox served as minister from 1560 to 1572[73] [12]
October 24, 1568: The English commissioners announce to those of Mary, that Elizabeth has decided that the conferences shall be resumed at London in presence of her and her council. The Queen of Scotland then nominates the Bishop of Ross^ Lords Boyd and Herries, and the Abbot of Kilwinning, to appear for her.
About this time the Duke of Norfolk, who for some time had entertained the idea of a marriage with the Queen of Scotland, communicates his views to Maitland, who seems to approve of his designs, and promises to second them. [13]
October 24, 1570: Cecil and Mildmay return to Windsor. [14]
It was then that the Earl of Shrewsbury detected the plot laid by the two sons of the Earl of Derby and J. Hall, to effect the escape of Mary by one of the windows of Chatsworth house. [15]
October 24, 1633: James II & VII
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Portrait by Peter Lely
King of England, Scotland and Ireland (more...)
Reign
February 6, 1685 –
December 11, 1688
Coronation
April 23, 1685
Predecessor
Charles II
Successors
William III & II and Mary II
Spouse
Anne Hyde
m. 1660; dec. 1671
Mary of Modena
m. 1673; wid. 1701
more...
Issue
Mary II of England
Anne, Queen of Great Britain
James Francis Edward Stuart
Louisa Maria Teresa Stuart
Henrietta FitzJames
James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick
Henry FitzJames
House
House of Stuart
Father
Charles I
Mother
Henrietta Maria of France
Born
(1633-10-14)October 14, 1633
(N.S.: October 24, 1633)
St. James's Palace, London[16]
October 24, 1676
Samuel Winch:King Philipps War(Credit for Military Service)[17]
1676
Frustrated Freemen
and Bacon’s Rebellion
An accumulating mass of footloose, impoverished freemen was drifting discontentedly about the Chesapeake region by the late seventeenth century. Mostly single young men, they were frustrated by their broken hopes of acquiring land, as well as by their gnawing failure to find single women to marry
The swelling numbers of these wretched bachelors rattled the established planters. The Virginia assembly in 1670 disfranchised most of the landless knockabouts, accusing them of “having little interest in the country” and causing “tumults at the election to the disturbance of his majesty’s peace.” Virginia’s Governor William Berkeley lamented his lot as ruler of this rabble: “How miserable that man is that governs a people where six parts of seven at least are poor, endebted, discontented, and armed.”
Berkeley’s misery soon increased. About a thousand Virginians broke out of control in 1676, led by a twenty-nine-year-old planter, Nathaniel Bacon. Many of the rebels were frontiersmen who had been forced into the untamed backcountry in search of arable land. They fiercely resented Berkeley’s friendly policies toward the Indians, whose thriving fur trade the governor monopolized. When Berkeley refused to retaliate for a series of savage Indian attacks on frontier settlements, Bacon and his followers took matters into their ‘own hands. They fell murderously upon the Indians, friendly and hostile alike, chased Berkeley from Jamestown, and put the torch to the capital. Chaos swept the raw colony, as frustrated freemen and resentful servants— described as “a rabble of the basest sort of people”— went on a rampage of plundering and pilfering.
As this civil war in Virginia ground on, Bacon suddenly died of disease, like so many of his fellow colonials. Berkeley thereupon crushed the uprising with brutal cruelty hanging more than twenty rebels. Back in England Charles II complained, “That old fool has put to death more people in that naked country than I did here for the murder of my father.”
The distant English king could scarcely imagine the depths of passion and fear that Bacon’s Rebellion excited in Virginia. Bacon had ignited the smoldering unhappiness of landless former servants, and he had pitted the hard-scrabble backcountry frontiersmen against the haughty gentry of the tidewater plantations. The rebellion was now suppressed, but these tensions remained. Lordly planters, surrounded by a still-seething sea of malcontents, anxiously looked about for less troublesome laborers to toil in the restless tobacco kingdom. Their eyes soon lit on Africa.
.Nathaniel Bacon assailed Virginias Governor William, Berkeley in 1676
“for having protected. favored, and
emboldened the Indians against His
Majesty’s loyal subjects, never contriving. requiring, or appointing any due or proper means of satisfaction for their many
invasions, robberies, and murders
committed upon us.”
For his part, Governor Berkeley declared:
1 have lived thirty-four years amongst you [Virginians]. as uncorrupt and diligent as
ever [a] Governor was. [while] Bacon is a man of two years amongst you. his person and qualities unknown to most of you. and to all men else, by any virtuous act that ever I heard of. . . . I will take counsel of wiser men than myself. but Mr. Bacon has none about him but the lowest of the people.”[18]
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1677: In 1677 the three Jewish families of Simon, called in Werneck Abraham and Löw (first proof).[23] Also in the today to the market town of Werneck associated places Ettleben, Schraudenbach, Vasbühl and Zeuzleben[24] are in the 17th/18th century prove one or several Jewish people / families. The oldest evidence of Jews in the room Werneck is likely to be from Schraudenbach, where 1677/78 is called Moysed Judt, who has already held up "many years" in the place and 1678 here bought a House. At the same time are called: in Zeuzleben jud sand (Sander).[25]
October 24, 1770: (GW) We reachd the Mouth of a Creek calld Fox Grape vine Creek
(10 Miles up which is a Town of Delawares calld Franks Town) abt.
3 Ocbock in the afternoon—distant from our last Camp abt. 26 Miles. Fox Grape Vine Creek, also called Captina Creek, flows into the Ohio from the west. Frank’s Town was a well-known Delaware village about six miles from the Juniata River. Originally called Assunepachba, it was referred to as Frank’s Town, for the Pennsylvania trader Frank Stevens, as early as 1734.
October 24th, 1770: (GW)—We left our encampment before sunrise, and about six miles below it, we came to the mouth of a small creek, coming in from the eastward, called by the Indians Split-Island creek, from its running in against an Island. On this creek there is the appearance of good land. Six miles below this again, we came to another creek on the west side, called by Nicholson, Wheeling ; and about a mile lower down appears to be another small water coming in on the east side, which I remark, because of the scarcity of them, and to show how badly furnished this country is with mill-seats. Two or three miles below this is another run on the west side, up which is a near way by land to Mingo town; and about four miles lower, comes in another on the east, at which place is a path leading to the settlement at Redstone. About a mile and a half below this comes in Pipe creek, so called by the Indians from a stone whichì is found here, out of which they make pipes. Opposite to this, that is, on the east side, is a bottom of exceedingly rich land but as it seems to be low, I am apprehensive that it is subject to be overflowed. ‘This bottom ends where the effects of a hurricane appear, by the destruction and havoc among tine trees. Two or three miles below the Pipe creek, is a pretty large creek on tIne west side, called by Nicholson, Fox-Grape-Vine, by others Captina creek, on which, eight miles up, is the town called Grape-Vine Town ; and at the mouth of it is the place where it was said the trader was killed. ‘To this place we came about three o’clock in the afternoon, and finding no body there, we agreed to encamp, that Nicholson and one of the Indians might go up to town, and inquire into the truth of the report concerning the murder.
October 24, 1772: (GW) Reachd Todds Bridge to Breakfast & Col. Bassets in the Evening. Captn. Crawford came there to Dinner.
October 24, 1777: 63-65.) He was destined to be disappointed. His ministers at Anspach received and opened in due time the following letter, written, as was usual with diplomatic correspondence, in the French language:
"Potsdam, this 24th October, 1777.
"MONSIEUR MY NEPHEW! - I own to your Most Serene Highness that I never think of the present war in America without being struck with the eagerness of some German princes to sacrifice their troops in a quarrel which does not concern them. My astonishment increases when I remember in ancient history the wise and general aversion of our ancestors to wasting German blood for the defence of foreign rights, which even became a law in the German state.
"But I perceive that my patriotism is running away with me; and I return to your Most Serene Highness's letter of the 14th, which excited it so strongly. You ask for free passage for the recruits and baggage which you wish to send to the corps of your troops in the service of Great Britain, and I take the liberty of observing that if you wish them to go to England, they will not even have to pass through my states, and that you can send them a shorter way to be embarked. I submit this idea to the judgment of your Most Serene Highness, and am none the less, with all the tenderness I owe you, Monsieur my Nephew, your Most Serene Highness's good uncle,
FREDERIC."
The ministers were perplexed. They thought it too late to keep back the troops, and hoped to gain their end by negotiation. In this they did not succeed. The soldiers were stopped on their passage down the Rhine, and after spending a month in their boats, lying, for the most part, off the little town of Bendorf, which belonged to the Margrave of Anspach, were finally brought back to winter at Hanau. Their sufferings while crowded on board the boats in the months of November and December, and only allowed occasional exercise on shore, must have been great; but there were but few desertions, for a cordon of troops lined the bank to prevent them. About two hundred and fifty recruits from Hanau lay alongside of the Anspachers, similarly detained, and these suffered much from fever.[26]
October 24th, 1777: This Morning I was taken very Sick with a Violent pain In my head, but taking a puke I Soon grew better this Day we Spent in prepairing our works, at night I being Some poorily went out of Camp to Mr Joseph Lows there tarried.[27][28]
October 24, 1777:
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GIRONCOURT, Charles Auguste de (1756-1811). "Plan Genéral des Operations de L'Armèe Britannique contre les Rebels en Amerique depuis l'Arrivée des Troupes Hessoises le 12 Du Mois d'Aoust [1776] jusqu'a la Fin de l'Année 1779. Dessiné par Charles Auguste De Gironcourt Lieut d'Artillerie." [New York, 1780].
12-sheet map, size from outside borders: 84¼ x 75¼ in. (218.5 x 191 cm). On laid paper, watermarked "JWhatman" with royal crown and "GR" monogram. The sheets are joined to form three 4-sheet horizontal panels. The overall condition is very fine, with fresh color and minimal signs of handling and wear. 6-inch separation along fold and another repaired, a few old repairs on verso, some smudges or minor soiling, some soft creases.
Manuscript pen-and-ink and watercolor map showing the area that extends from New Windsor, New York on the Hudson in the north, to Great Egg Harbor (New Jersey) in the south, to Huntington, Long Island in the east, and southwesterly to the North East River on upper Chesapeake Bay. Four large inset maps appear around the margins of the map. Two insets show areas in New York: "Plan de la Ville de New York," and " Plan du Fort Knyphausen & des Autres Forts & Redoutes qui ont eté Construits dans l'Année 1779"; and two show areas in Pennsylvania: "Plan de la Ville de Philadelphie des Redoutes & Lignes de Deffences Construites devant le Camp qu'occupa l'Armée pres de Cette Ville le 19 Octobre 1777" and "Plan de L'Attaque du Fort Readbank le 24 Octobre 1777 & Du Celle Du Fort Mifflin Sur Mudden Island le 15 Novembre 1777." The title is within an ornamental cartouche in the upper right-hand corner.
A MONUMENTAL AND FINELY EXECUTED CONTEMPORARY REVOLUTIONARY WAR MAP DEPICTING IN REMARKABLE DETAIL THE NUMEROUS BATTLES AND EXTENSIVE MILITARY ACTIVITY WHICH TOOK PLACE OVER THE MIDDLE ATLANTIC REGION OF AMERICA DURING THE EARLY YEARS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
As the title indicates, the map depicts the military activities from the landing of the first contingent of Hessians on Staten Island on August 12, 1776, under the command of General Leopold Philip de Heister (1707-1777). Natural terrain features are carefully delineated, along with cities, towns and other man made structures, such as bridges and roads. Troop movements and disposition are indicated in red (English) and yellow (American), and most place names are in English. Naval vessels are identified by name and their positions and movements represented along the coastal areas. Among the operations and battles depicted from the New York and New Jersey Campaign: the landing at Gravesend on Long Island, the Battle of Long Island, the capture of New York City and Fort Washington, the Battle of White Plains, and the Battle of Trenton. From the Philadelphia campaign: the landing at Elk River, the march to the Brandywine, and the occupation of Philadelphia, the march from New Jersey to New York following the evacuation of Philadelphia in 1778, and the Battle of Monmouth.
The Hessian Role in the American Revolution
During the American Revolutionary War, Landgrave Frederick II of Hesse-Kassel (a principality in northern Hesse or Hessia) and other German leaders hired out thousands of conscripted subjects as auxiliaries to Great Britain to fight against the American revolutionaries. Approximately 30,000 of these soldiers were sold into service during this period. They were called Hessians, because more than a third of the men came from Hesse-Kassel.
The first wave of about 18,000 Hessian troops arrived at Staten Island in mid-August 1776, and were soon after transported to Gravesend Bay where they landed on the 22nd of August in advance of their first engagement in the Battle of Long Island. There after The Hessians fought in almost every battle of the Revolutionary War, although after 1777, they were mainly used by the British as garrison troops. An assortment of Hessians fought in the battles and campaigns in the southern states during 1778-80 (including Guilford Courthouse), and two regiments fought at the Siege of Yorktown in 1781.
The large vignette of Fort Knyphausen on this map would have had particular relevance to Gironcourt and his fellow-countrymen, as it marks a decisive British/Hessian victory at The Battle of Fort Washington. On November 16, 1776, Hessian Lieutenant General Wilhelm von Knyphausen (1716-1800) and a force of 3,000 Hessian troops and 5,000 Redcoats lay siege to Fort Washington at the northern end and highest point of Manhattan Island. The main attack on Lt. Col. Moses Rawlings' position by the Hessian troops, commanded by General Von Knyphausen, was met with fierce resistance, but ultimately the entire garrison of Fort Washington was forced to surrender. Nearly 3,000 Patriots were taken prisoner, and valuable ammunition and supplies were lost to the Hessians. The British renamed the garrison Fort Knyphausen in recognition of his role.
Knyphausen went on to lead the Hessian troops in the Battles of White Plains, Fort Washington, Brandywine, Germantown, Springfield, and Monmouth. In 1779 and 1780, he commanded British-held New York City. When his superior in the Hessian leadership, General Leopold Philip de Heister, left for Germany, von Knyphausen took command of the German troops serving under Sir William Howe.
De Gironcourt the Mapmaker
Charles Auguste de Gironcourt was born in the town of Epinal in Lorraine in 1756. Prior to joining the Hessian forces in 1776 he served in the French army, under Col. Carl Emil Kurt von Donop and Lieut. Gen. Wilhelm von Knyphausen in the artillery detachments, and accompanied the Hessian troops to America in May of 1777. He was commissioned second lieutenant in April 1776, and served as deputy quartermaster general from 1781-82.
De Gironcourt succeeded the Hessian map-maker Capt. Reinhard Jacob Martin in the engineer corps attached to the Hessian commander's staff, quartered at Morris House, New York. In this position he continued Martin's work recording the Hessians' critical role in the American war. In the title cartouche on the Marburg Gironcourt map (see census map #1), Gironcourt credits the late Martin for his plan that he based his design on: "Des Plans faits par feu le Capitaine Martin du Corps du Genie & Dessiné par Charles Aug: Gironcourt, Lieutenant d'Artillerie."
"He relished his task as successor to Martin, requesting transfer from the artillery to the engineer corps in a letter from New York dated October 14, 1781. In spite of his interest, he made only two other maps known to be extant, one of Charleston, South Carolina [see following lot], and the other of troop dispositions on Manhattan Island. He remained in New York where he was married on August 10, 1783, to Elizabeth Corne, daughter of Captain Corne of New YorkIt is assumed he was widowed since he later returned to Hesse and married the daughter of another Hessian Artillery officerhe died in 1811"-Peter J. Guthorn, "A Hessian Map from the American Revolution, Its Origin and Purpose," in: The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress, Vol. 33, no. 3, July 1976, pp. 219-231.
Sources
Apart from the manuscript maps of his predecessor Capt. Reinhard Jacob Martin, Gironcourt would have had a variety of sources available to him at the Hessian commander's staff quarters at Morris House, including printed British maps and surveys. "The printed maps served to establish many of the overall relationships-some, however, inaccurately. The positions of the larger communities, major roads, and some of the shorelines, and the general geographical relationships have features similar to the 1776 and earlier maps of New York, New Jersey, and part of Pennsylvania by Samuel Holland and to William Faden's map of New Jersey, all of which have common features and to some extent common predecessors in Bernard Ratzer's 1769 survey and Gerard Bancker's surveys for the Earl of Dunmore [Governor of New York from 1770-1771, later Governor of Virginia, then the Bahamas]The headquarters maps and surveys available were those by Capt. Reinhard Jacob Martin, Capt. Johann von Ewald, Lt. Friedrich von Wangenheim, Capt. Andreas Wiederhold, and Capt. Johann Hinrichs of the Hessian forces; as well as Gen. William Howe's Hessian liaison aide, Capt. Friedrich von Münchausen; and the British Engineers and headquarters officers, including Capt. John Montresor, Maj. John André, Capt. Charles Blaskowitz, and Maj. Samuel Holland" (Guthorn, p. 220).
Comparison of the Existing Versions
Little has been written about the handful of known maps by Gironcourt. In a letter dated September 16, 1780 from Gironcourt to Maj. John André (1750-1780), adjutant general and aide-de-camp to Sir Henry Clinton, he describes having made a "Plan tres Considerable Concernant toutes les operations de l'Armee Britannique depuis l'Anée 1776 jusqu'a la fin de 1779," showing "all the events and battles which had occurred during this time, as well as individual plans of the cities of New York and Philadelphia, the attack on Fort Red Bank, and the works at Fort Knyphausen and at Laurel Hill. De Gironcourt begged the honor of presenting it to His Excellency Sir Henry Clinton and expressed his gratitude to Major André for giving him the letter" (Guthorn, pp. 223-24).
In his ground-breaking article on a map thought to be by Gironcourt at the Library of Congress, Peter J. Guthorn suggests the LC map may have been the one referred to in this letter, the map presented to Sir Henry Clinton. However, this is unlikely since the LC copy and the copy at the National Archives, Kew lack the inset maps so clearly mentioned in his letter to Maj. André. Unaware of the Windsor Castle inset version and the present version, Guthorn speculates, "Was the omission merely an oversight, was the map [LC] in fact an incomplete copy, was the reference to another copy of the map as yet undiscovered or lost, or did de Gironcourt fail to present the map to Sir Henry?" Considering the versions unknown to Guthorn it would seem more likely that the copy referred to in de Gironcourt's letter is either the map that made its way to George III (now at Windsor), or possibly the present map which descends from the Earls of Carysfort (see provenance).
An examination of all five copies allows for a clear distinction between the two categories--those containing insets and those without them. The LC and National Archive versions belong to the latter class. Although these two examples are drawn to the same scale and cover the identical area as the three versions with inset maps (see census below), they both contain another feature absent in the inset versions, a table of operations ("Renvoi") arranged in three columns in the lower center. The 136 operations in the table are listed and designated A-Z, a-z, and 1-86 which are keyed to locations on the map. These two maps also do not contain mention of their maker in their titles.
The inset versions are all identified as being by de Gironcourt in their title cartouches. They contain the letters and numbers to which they are keyed on the map, but the table is not incorporated into the design and would have been a supplemental manuscript list of operations such as that in the Marburg Hessian archives. The Windsor copy is special among this class in that it includes five inset maps (3 of New York) and interestingly makes no reference to the Hessians in the title cartouche: "depuis l'Arrivée des Troupes Hessoises" is dropped from the title.
Guthorn considers the Marburg inset map to be the "original," based on its title which indicates de Gironcourt to be its designer "employing drafts and plans made by the late Captain Martin." He considers it (and a close copy by Rieder after Gironcourt at Marburg) "official records, perhaps forwarded to Baron Friedrich Christian Arnold von Jungkenn by Maj. Carl Leopold Baurmeister or to other higher echelon officers or offices" (Guthorn, p.226).
With its additional inset plan and no mention of the Hessians in the title, the Windsor Castle map may be the formal finalized representation intended for the Crown. The present map therefore appears to follow the Marburg map in the sequence. One further detail in the Proby map that supports this is the omission of the year "1776" in the date in the title: "Plan Genéral des Operations de L'Armèe Britannique contre les Rebels en Amerique depuis l'Arrivée des Troupes Hessoises le 12 Du Mois d'Aoust [1776] jusqu'a la Fin de l'Année 1779." This may have been an oversight when the map was redrawn.
As they are unsigned and only attributed to de Gironcourt, it may be that the LC and National Archive copies are earlier drafts done by de Gironcourt or another cartographer, or a copy based on inset versions.
THE PROBY MAP THEREFORE CONSTITUTES ONE OF ONLY THREE CONFIRMED LARGE MAPS BY GIRONCOURT, AND IT AND THE FOLLOWING LOT COMPRISE THE ONLY KNOWN MANUSCRIPT MAPS BY HIM IN PRIVATE HANDS.
Provenance
The Earls of Carysfort, by direct descent to Sir William Proby, Bt. The maps could have come into the family through either the 1st earl of Carysfort or his sons, the 2nd and 3rd earls.
John Joshua Proby, 1st earl of Carysfort (1751-1828) was a politician who developed powerful ties with the Pitt administration. In addition to inheriting the Proby estate at Elton, Huntingdonshire, home of the family since the 1660s, he also inherited an Irish estate and house through his mother, Elizabeth Allen, heiress of the 2nd Viscount Allen. After his marriage to a cousin, Elizabeth Osborne, he sat in the Irish House of Lords where his liberal views led him to join in the 1780's the Volunteer movement that championed legislative independence for the Dublin parliament.
After the death of his first wife in 1783, John Proby travelled for nearly two years, arriving in Potsdam in 1784, where he was presented to Frederick the Great, and continuing to St. Petersburg where he lived for nearly two years. Aided by the British envoy, Alleyne Fitzherbert, he established contacts at the court of Catherine the Great, numbering Prince Potemkin amongst his friends and helping Sir Joshua Reynolds gain commissions to paint both Potemkin and Catherine. On his return in 1787 he married Elizabeth Grenville (1756-1842), the daughter of George Grenville (Prime Minister 1763-65) and Elizabeth Wyndham. Her elder brother was the 1st Marquess of Buckingham, who was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1787-89; another brother was William Grenville, who became Pitt's foreign secretary and eventually Prime Minister, from 1806-7.
Henceforward, John Proby was a steadfast supporter of Pitt and Grenville, and when the Irish uprising broke out in 1798 he declared that the time was ripe for a union of Great Britain and Ireland. As a reward for his support, he duly received a United Kingdom barony in 1801. Between 1800-1802 he was envoy-extraordinary and minister-plenipotentiary to Berlin, and he continued to support Grenville after the latter's resignation from office with Pitt. On the formation of the "ministry of all the talents" in 1806, he was sworn of the privy council and became joint post-master general, though he resigned his posts the following year. While he is not known to have had any involvement in the American War of Independence, the ship H.M.S. Carysfort, launched on August 23, 1766, assisted in the destruction of 24 armed American vessels at Martha's Vineyard in September 1778. It was the first of a succession of ships to bear the name of the earldom.
Both distinguished officers in the Napoleonic wars, the second and third earls were equally likely to have taken a strong professional interest in the Gironcourt maps. The first earl's second son, also named John Proby (1780-1855) succeeded him in 1828. Commissioned into the British Army in 1794, he fought in the Peninsular War and reached the rank of Major-General by 1814. He also served as an MP at two periods (1805-1806 and 1814-1818). He died unmarried, leaving his younger brother Granville Leveson Proby, third earl of Carysfort (1781-1868), next in line. The latter had joined the navy as a midshipman in 1798, serving on the Vanguard with Captain Edward Berry and Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson. He fought in the battle of the Nile and according to family records, as the battle was about to commence, Nelson remarked: "well, my boy, this is better than being in Grosvenor Square." His active service continued at the blockade of Malta, and in 1803-04 on the Victory, Nelson's flagship in the Mediterranean. Promoted lieutenant in 1804, Granville Proby fought at Trafalgar, and subsequently enjoyed several commands. He had no further service afloat after 1816, but in due course became rear-admiral (1841), vice-admiral (1851) and admiral (1857).
William Proby, 5th earl of Carysfort (1836-1909), was a bibliophile and member of the exclusive Roxburghe Club who bought extensively at Sotheby's sale of the library of Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl Crawford (1812-1880) in 1887, and at similar great sales near the end of the century. A meticulous record exists of his purchases - among which were five Caxton imprints and a copy of the Gutenberg Bible (now at the University of Texas).
De Gironcourt Manuscript Map Census
1. Hessisches Staatsarchiv, Marburg (formerly Wilhelmshöher Kriegskarten Collection):
Inset version, containing 4 large inset maps (2 of New York, as in Proby version)
With 7-page manuscript table of operations ("Renvoy") listing 136 locations designated A-Z, a-z, and 1-86 which are keyed to locations on the map.
Condition: Partially assembled, removed from an atlas.
The Hessisches Staatsarchiv, Marburg also has a copy of the Gironcourt map by Rieder ("less finished and less carefully executed"--Guthorn) and a separate single sheet signed map of Charleston, South Carolina (see Proby version next lot).
2. Elton Hall, Elton, near Peterborough (the present manuscript):
Inset version, containing 4 large inset maps (2 of New York and environs).
Condition: Partially assembled, removed from atlas.
With separate single sheet map of Charleston, South Carolina, signed by Gironcourt (see following lot).
3. Royal Library, Windsor (George III Military Collection):
Inset version, containing 5 large inset maps (3 of New York). The sheets in this map are arranged differently with four vertical sheets joined to achieve the height of the map and three the width (the others have three vertical sheets to achieve the height and four the width). This configuration creates a slightly taller map, perhaps to accommodate the addition of the fifth vignette, "Plan de la Côte de Staten Island du coté du Narrow, des Redoutes & Batteries qui furent construites sur cette Isle en 1778."
Condition: Assembled and linen-backed, on rollers.
4. National Archives, Kew (formerly London Public Record Office):
No insets, with table of operations ("Renvoi") arranged in three columns in the lower center. The locations in the table are listed and designated A-Z, a-z, and 1-86 which are keyed to locations on the map. With 7-page manuscript table of operations ("Renvoy") listing 136 locations designated A-Z, a-z, and 1-86 which are keyed to locations on the map (silked).
"The map had been in the British War Office archives before transfer to the Public Record Office and therefore constituted an 'official' military record, probably accompanying reports directly from the area of operations in America, or possibly indirectly by way of Baron von Jungkenn's office" (Guthorn, p. 227).
Condition: Assembled, linen-backed, silked on front, with significant loss to caption and other areas, on rollers.
5. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (Peter Force Collection):
No insets, with table of operations ("Renvoi") arranged in three columns in the lower center. The locations in the table are listed and designated A-Z, a-z, and 1-86 which are keyed to locations on the map.
Condition: removed from a 19th-century half morocco binding and assembled, linen-backed, worn with some loss along folds, defective lower right corner.[29]
On October 24, 1778, an October 16, 1778
War Office document pertaining to George Morgan was read to Congress. That document states:
The Board have considered of Colonel Morgan‘s letter of the 12th instant referred to
them. It appears by the letter of his agent Mr. Shelton, that 1,000 head of cattle have been
purchased for the troops at the westward, and by the information of Mr. Gibson, ye
express now here from fort Pitt, that several hundred head have actually been delivered,
and by that means General McIntosh has been enabled to commence his expeditionbefore the arrival of supplies from Mr. Lockart; and as the cattle were purchased probably at rather high prices, the Board beg leave to report:
That sixty thousand dollars be paid to Colonel George Morgan for the purchases of cattle
made by his direction for the troops on the western frontiers, and to defray the expence of
purchasing and driving the same; he to be accountable for that sum.
The Board beg leave to remind Congress that they reported some time since a large sum
to be granted to Colonel Morgan to enable him to lay up salt provisions and flour for
next year, for the troops at the westward. The forming such magazines is every day
growing more difficult and expensive; and in a little time will probably be quite
impracticable. [30]
October 24 - November 14, 1778: Carleton's Raid.[31]
October 24, 1791: The men marched twenty miles in two days and then built Fort Hamilton. St. Clair’s army then advanced forty-five miles northward, where his men built Fort Jefferson. Leading primarily untrained militiamen, St. Clair faced problems with desertion from the beginning of his campaign. Although it was still early fall, his men faced some cold temperatures and quite a bit of rain and snowfall. St. Clair also had a difficult time keeping his soldiers supplied with food. His men became demoralized. Despite this problem, St. Clair advanced against the Miami Indians on October 24.
John Q. Wilds was born at Littleton, Pennsylvania, October 24th, 1792. His ancestors, who were among the elarliest settlers in the Keystone State, belonged to the old line whig school of politics. When seven years of age, death deprived him of the counsel and advice of a kind and indulgent father. This threw him, comparatively, upon his own resources, and he was tossed like a foot-fall upon the orld’s great highway, to battle with the stern realities of life. Although unable to obtain a classic educationk, he secured for himself by perseverance and hard study, a general knowledgeable of the the common English branches, which , combined with sound Judgment and good business tact. V. as the talisman of his success in after life. His earlier years were spent as a tiller of the soil, one of the most honorable and independent avocations in which man can embark. From 1850 to 1854, he was enganged successfully in mercantile pursueits at his native town. But he soon became restless. “No pent-up Utica” like the crowded cities of the east afforded charms form longer, and bidding farewell to home, friends, and the scenes of his childhood, he turned his gaze westward. Iowa was his choice among all the northwestern states, and he soon found himself within her borders, without the remotest thought that future events would at one day lead him to add luster to her reputation, and defend her honor and integrity would at one day lead him to add luster to her reputation,, and defend her honor and integrity with his hearts blood. Settling in the thriving and pleasant village of Mount Vernon in Linn county, he engaged in selling goods and speculation in lands, and as every honest man will do, he met with almost unbounded success. It was at Mount Vernon where the writer of this sketch became acquainted with John Q. Wilds. When a small boy I was emploved in his store, and it was then I learned to love and respect him for his kind manner and gentle disposition, the recollection of which can nerer be readicated from my memory. During the Kansas troubles, I well remembered the interest he manifested in behalf o f the cause of freedom and humanity, and it was with the greatest difficulty that his friends dissuaded him from rushing to the arena of combat. For a time he was engaged in merchandising with Messrs. Waln and Griffinn, two estimable gentlemen at Mount Vernon; after which, if I remember rightly, he was alone in business again. In 1857, he was united in marriage to Miss Rowena Camp, a yound lady of excellent qualities of head and heart, who with their two pledges of married life, passed away to the land of shadows in the fall of 1864. The war came and John Q. Wilds’ patriotic impulses would not permit him to stand aloof when the liberties of his country were in peril Sometime during the summer of 1861, he was elected captain of company “A,” 13th Iowa Infantry, theregiment being commanded by the lamented Crocker.[32]
October 24, 1795: Third partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia and Russia. This is an example of the law of unintended consequences. Russia, which had been trying to diip Jews out, now found itself with millions of Jewish Poles as Russian citrizens. For the next hundred years the various Czars devised plans to control ordestroy the Jewish community in Russia The most famous example was the one-third, one-third, one-third program. The third of the Jews would convert, one third wouldimmigrate and one third would die. Thus Russia would be rid of its Jews.[33]
A few years ago, I bought a book called "A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Kingdom of Poland." For the name "Gutfrajnd" it says:
Gutfrajnd: (Janow, Kielce, common in Kalisz; Czestochowa, Blonie, Lodz, Warsaw) A: gutfraynd (Yiddish), Gutfreund (German) good friend (Gutfrajnd, Gutfrajt, Gutfred, Gutfrejd, Gutfrejt, Gotfrajnd, Gotfrajnd)
All that the above means is that the name was common in the towns mentioned and it provides some name variants -- including Gotfrajnd.
The book also includes the following about the name "Gotlib"
Gotlib: (common in Radom gub., Kielce Gub. and Piotrkow gub) M: from the given name Gotlib (Gottlieb in German) (Godlib, Gotleb, Gotlibow, Gotlibowicz, Botlibowski, Gotlibski).
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October 24, 1804 – Treaty of Tellico for land cession.[34]
October 24, 1834: DR. BENJAMIN F. McKINNON, physician and farmer; Lewistown; was born in Clark Co., O., October 24, 1834; was the youngest son of Judge McKinnon, of Clark Co., O.; moved to Bloomfield Tp. when a boy, and has spent his life in Washington and Bloomfield Tps.;
October 24, 1838: NANCY ANN27 CRAWFORD (VALENTINE "VOL"26, JOSEPH "JOSIAH"25, VALENTINE24, VALENTINE23, WILLIAM22, MAJOR GENERAL LAWRENCE21, HUGH20, HUGH19, CAPTAIN THOMAS18, LAWRENCE17, ROBERT16, MALCOLM15, MALCOLM14, ROGER13, REGINALD12, JOHN, JOHN, REGINALD DE CRAWFORD, HUGH OR JOHN, GALFRIDUS, JOHN, REGINALD5, REGINALD4, DOMINCUS3 CRAWFORD, REGINALD2, ALAN1) was born 1816 in Estell County, Kentucky. She married GREEN BERRY KELLY October 24, 1838 in Madison County, Kentucky. [35]
October 24, 1864: two days after the battle of Westport George Todd as shot by a Union sniper. He died a few hours later. Whitsett then joined the small group of guerrillas operating under the command of Daniel Vaughn. [36]
Mon. October 24[37], 1864
In camp all quiet great cheering old
Abes letter[38] to Gen Sheridan[39]
(William Harrison Goodlove Civil War Diary)[40]
October 24, 1866: John Cavender
John married Margaret Emiline Gilreath (b. October 24, 1866 / d. in Union Co. GA) on November 13, 1887.[41] Margaret Emiline Cavender (b. October 24, 1866).[42]
October 24, 1870: In Algiers under the leadership of Cremieux, France granted French citizenship to all Algerian Jews. Prior to this date, citizenship was conferred on individual Jews based on their application. Algeria had been taken over by the French and this move was part of the French program of colonization.[43]
1871: Elizabeth Betsy Harris Crawford
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1871: While some maskilim at the time did not attribute much importance to Gottlober’s poetry, others held his compositions in very high esteem. Gottlober’s popularity may be deduced from the prepublication subscription lists (prenumeranten in Yiddish) that appeared on the title pages of his books. Judging by the number of subscribers and their geographical dispersion, he was indeed popular: 766 persons from 19 different communities—from Odessa in the south to Vilna in the north—subscribed to Ha-Nitsanim. Nevertheless, as the literary historian Joseph Klausner stated, Gottlober was “a poet for his age rather than a poet for the ages” (Klausner, 1955, p. 324).
1871: Gottlober wrote in various genres in Yiddish, including poetry, a play, fables, and a memior (Zikhroynes vegen yudishe shrayber; 1888). Much of his work was parodic, such as Dos lid funem kugl (1863), or satirical, such as “Der gilgul” (1871). [44]
1871: Speech of Pope Pius IX in regard to Jews:”of these dogs, there are too many of them at present in Rome, and we hear them howling in the streets, and they are disturbing us in all places.[45]
October 24, 1895
Oscar Goodlove and his family are now nicely settled in the house recently vacated by J. T. Sarchett[46]
October 24, 1902: Volcano, Santa Maria, Central America Volcanic Arc, Guatemala; 1902, Oct 24; VEI 6; 20 cubic kilometres (4.8 cu mi) of tephra[9] [47]
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Credit: U.S. Department of Interior, U.S. Geological Survey.
Santa Maria Volcano, Guatemala – 1902 VEI 6
The Santa Maria eruption in 1902 was one of the largest eruptions of the 20th century. The violent explosion came after the volcano had sat silent for roughly 500 years, and left a large crater, nearly a mile (1.5 km) across, on the mountain’s southwest flank.
The symmetrical, tree-covered volcano is part of a chain of stratovolcanoes that rises along Guatemala's Pacific coastal plain. It has experienced continuous activity since its last blast, a VEI 3, which occurred in 1922. In 1929, Santa Maria spewed forth a a pyroclastic flow (a fast-moving wall of scalding gas and pulverized rock), which claimed hundreds of lives and may have killed as many as 5,000 people. [48]
1903
The Kishinev pogrom: 49 Jews murdered.[49] Following the horrors of the Kishinev pogroms, Herzl proposes to substitute another country as a "night refuge" for persecuted Jews. British officials suggest El Arish and later Uganda. The idea is rejected by the Russian Jews whom Herzl wanted to help. Sixth Zionist Congress split over British offer to settle Uganda. A commission is appointed to look into the question. Eventually the British offer is withdrawn. Laemel school moved to "new" part of Jerusalem, outside the walls.[50]
Date Missing
Those from the vicinity of Central City who are in Cedar Rapids this week taking advantage of the farmers shortcourse are E. L. Goodlove, R. A. Bowdish, W. R. Goodlove, L. J. ? and C. R. Mills.[51]
1903
100_5715[52]
Mountain Man by Frederic Remington
Prince Silverwings (1903)[edit]
Main article: Prince Silverwings
Baum worked with Edith Ogden Harrison on developing her children's book, Prince Silverwings into a musical extravaganza. The project went off and on, and Baum composed a song for it called "Down Among the Marshes," but the project eventually fell apart. The scenario and general synopsis was eventually published in 1981. A completed draft of the script exists, but remains unpublished.
George F. LeClere born January 14, 1817, died, October 24, 1904
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Mary Goodlove visits the French Cemetery in Dubuque, Iowa, June 14, 2009. Photo by Jeff Goodlove
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October 24, 1911: John Kilpatrick Nix13 [John A. Nix12, Grace Louisa Francis Smith11, Gabriel Smith10, John “LR” Smith9, Ambrose J. Smith8, Christopher Smith7, Christopher Smith6, Thomas Smythe5, Thomas Smythe4, John Smythe3, Richard2, William1] (b. February 16, 1845 in Randolph Co. AL / d. April 20, 1926 in Cullman Co. AL) married Louisa Bankhead (b. May 3, 1847 / d. October 24, 1911 in Cullman Co. AL). [54]
October 24, 1919: Chalice had left very big shoes to fill. Until the arrival of a Chalice protégé, A.R. Grant, in October 1919, nobody could fill them. In Grant, the Buck Creek Church’s board of trustees spied many of the same qualities Chalice possessed, youth, an old time evangelistic style, and a commitment to obtaining all the conveniences and advantages of urban life for farm families while avoiding the disadvantages. Furthermore, he came highly recommended by Chalice himself. Chalice maintained close personal ties with many persons in the Buck Creek Church, and he and his family frequently returned to Buck Creek for short visits. No doubt he also maintained a keen interest in the success of the community building effort he had begun but did not fully complete in the Buck Creek area.[55]
Unlike Odell, Grant lost no time in returning to the issue that had been at the top of the reform agenda for Buck Creekers before U.S. entry in World War I, the consolidation of rural schools in the Buck Creek area. In doing so he received a great deal of help from the DPI and ISTA.[56]
October 24, 1933: First Lady Finds Stricken
Miners Eager to Improve
Their Lot
Early in August, Clarence Pickett, head of
relief work for the American Friends, went
to the home of a mine superintendent in
Amettsville, W. Va., and asked the superintendent’s
wife if she could keep two visitors
for two nights later in the month.
The woman readily agreed. Then, as an
afterthought, she asked who the visitors
would be.
“Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt and a companion,”
replied Mr. Pickett, with the calmness
that has characterized the relief work of the
Friends in northern West Virginia.
Mr. Pickett explained that Mrs. Roosevelt
would be traveling without a guard, and
wanted to view conditions in the district
without being hampered by curious
crowds. So the superintendent’s wife, Mrs.
Glenn Rork, kept from everyone but her
husband, the secret of the coming of the
First Lady.
Chat Far Into The Night
August 17 the Works received word that
Mrs. Roosevelt was on her way, but at 6
o’clock the President’s wife telephoned
from a town 40 miles away to advise them
not to wait dinner. She would be a little late,
she said.
Mr. Work got his car out and drove down
the road to meet Mrs. Roosevelt. She was
driving her own car, a roadster with the top
down. When they arrived at the Work
home, Mr. Work put the roadster in a
garage, so it would not attract attention.
Mrs. Roosevelt sat at the dining room table
and chatted with Mrs. Work until 1 a.m.
V. Depression and New Deal 269
The next day, accompanied by several
friends, relief workers from Morgantown
and some Morgantown officials, Mrs.
Roosevelt toured the mine camps. First she
visited the furniture factory started by the
Friends at Crown Mine-Mr. Work’s own
mine. Then she saw a similar shop at Bertha
Hill, and another at Jere.
Miners Recognize Visitor
She was introduced to the miners working
in the shops as “another Friend.” A
number recognized her, however. And several
times, when she expressed pleasure
with the work some individual was doing,
she revealed her identity and shook hands
with him.
The party, traveling in the battered cars
used by the Friends in their field work, pulled
into a grove of trees at noon and ate a picnic
lunch. Then the tour continued through
Scott’s Run, a four mile gully traversed by a
road and railroad and lined up on both sides
with mine tipples and mine houses.
Mrs. Roosevelt visited the all-mine communities
of Tropf Hill, Osage, Guston Run,
Jere and Cassville, walking into the company
houses, talking to the miners on the
streets, taking notes about everything.
One mine wife, surprised at her washing,
recognized the President’s wife at once,
wiped her hands on her apron and stammered,
“I’m glad to meet you, Mrs.
Roosevelt.” Another woman presented her
with a hand-woven scarf.
She was particularly interested in the community
gardens tended by the miners on the
hillsides above their villages. She tramped up
dusty paths from the road to view these
efforts of the men to help themselves.
Toward evening the party reached the
last mine community on Scott’s Run, the
New Hill settlement above Cassville.
There they found a park, constructed by
miners on the crest of a hill that had once
been a brush-covered, rock-strewn eyesore.
The rocks had been made into a great
ornamental wall around the area and
stacked into ornamental conical columns
within it. The underbrush had been
cleared, swings hung from the trees, and
platforms erected to serve as speakers’
stands for outdoor gatherings.
Mrs. Roosevelt rejoined the group in the
park, looked at the wall that had been so
laboriously constructed and remarked that
men who were so eager to improve their
conditions should be given a chance to do so.
Inspect Plans
The group went over plans that the
Friends had been evolving for permanent
employment of the many miners who
could never again hope to dig for coal.
They contemplated buying a tract of land,
dividing it into little farms and building
small houses for the families. The furniture
factories would be moved to this tract and
would give the men employment during
the seasons of the year in which they could
not farm.
Mrs. Roosevelt heartily indorsed the project.
She talked for a time with Brushrod
Grimes, of the West Virginia University
extension division, who had been supervising
the garden clubs and doing some
preparatory work on the Friends farm plan.
Then she conferred with Dean Fred
Fromme, of the West Virginia University
College of Agriculture.
Turning to Mrs. Yeager, who had been
standing near she said, “Keep this thing
going. I’m sure something good will come
of it.” [57]
October 24, 1939: Jews in Wloclawek, Poland are required to wear a yellow cloth triangle identifying them as Jews.[58]
October 24, 1940
The Fair Labor Standards Act goes into effect, establishing the 40 hour work week.[59]
October 24, 1941: Six thousand work passes were distributed in Vilna. This meant 4,000 Jews without work passes would be sent to their doom on Polna. They were hunted down by the Lithuanians. Among the dead were 885 children.[60]
October 24, 1941: Sixteen thousand Odessa, Ukraine, Jews are force-marched out of the city toward Dalnik, where they are bound together in groups of 40 to 50 and shot, at first in the open and later through holes drilled in the walls of warehouses. Three of these structures are set ablaze and a fourth is exploded by artillery fire.[61]
October 24, 1941: Twenty thousand Jews fell into Nazi hands as German forces occupy Kharkov. [62]
October 24, 1941: Odessa Action continued. After two days, thousand of Jews had been murdered. An additional 16,000 Jews were taken from Odessa and sent Dalnik. In Dalnik, they were all shot in ditches; machine gunned down, or burned alive in warehouses.[63]
October 24, 1941
The German Army takes Kharekov in the Soviet Union.[64]
October 24, 1942: The Jews of Lichtenstein were deported.[65]
October 24, 1942: A total of 252 friends and relatives of persons from Lidice are murdered in Mauhausen in reprisal for the assassination of Heydrich.[66]
October 24, 1944: For the Leyte invasion in October, Morrison was assigned with Cassin Young, Irwin, Gatling and cruisers Birmingham and Reno to screen light carrier Princeton (CVL 23). On the 24th, (October 24), Princeton was conducting air strikes on Luzon from a position off its east coast when an enemy dive bomber broke through the clouds and scored a direct hit, igniting a severe fire on her hanger deck. To help fight the fire and take off personnel, ships of the screen, Morrison in her turn, came alongside to take off personnel.
As the two ships rolled in the swells with Morrison to starboard, however, her mast and forward stack locked between Princeton’s boiler uptakes. Trapped for nearly an an hour of sustained wrenching to her superstructure, Morrison finally broke free before Birmingham came alongside in her place (only to be showered with debris as Princeton’s magazines exploded, causing heavy casualties).
With Princeton too far gone to be saved, Irwin and Reno were ordered to scuttle her with torpedoes and gunfire. Collectively the screening ships rescued 1440 Princeton officers and men—Morrison alone about 400, before retiring first to Ulithi with Birmingham, Irwin and Gatling and then to San Francisco. She and Irwin, also heavily damaged, each received the Navy Unit Commendation for this action. [67]
October 24, 1945: Vidkun Quisling, a traitor who thought collaborating with the Nazis would lead to the fulfillment of his dreams, is shot by a firing squad. He was complicate in the murder of Jews.[68]
Okinawa radar picket stations
Radar picket stations in the Okinawa operation. Click to view this image in more detail. [69]
October 24, 1961 Still another plot to assassinate Castro is uncovered in Cuba.
Reynol Gonzales, the delegated trigger man, is arrested while hiding on a suburban farm
belonging to Manuel Ray’s supporters. The mastermind behind this scheme is Antonio Veciana
Blanch, an accountant who, according to the U.S. News & World Report, had begun “working
with other accountants, embezzling government funds in Havana to finance an anti-Castro underground.”
Weapons are found in an apartment rented by Veciana’s mother near the Presidential Palace.
Veciana and his mother are able to escape and make their way to Miami. Veciana will
eventually become the first chief of Alpha 66, one of the most militant and durable of the
exile action groups. [70]
October 24, 1962
President Kennedy authorizes a naval blockade of Cuba to halt Soviet military shipments.[71] Khrushchev, in a letter to JFK, warns that the blockade is a “serious threat to peace” and states that the weapons he has sent to Cuba are purely “defensive” and are intended to deter an American invasion. The Color Of Truth [72]
David Ferrie calls a Dallas number from Luling, LA today.[73]
The Cuban Missile Crisis: America on the Verge of a Military Coup
Another event of monumental importance to the conduct of JFK challenging the “secret government” apparatus of the National Security State was with the Cuban Missile Crisis, a thirteen-day nuclear standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union, which was described by one top official involved as, “the most dangerous moment in human history.” The crisis was started when US reconnaissance observed missile bases being built in Cuba by the Soviet Union. It brought the world closer to nuclear war than ever before or since. During the crisis, JFK, his brother Bobby, and Robert McNamara:
“were trying to steer the decision-making process toward the idea of a naval blockade of Cuba, to stop the flow of nuclear shipments to the island and to pressure the Soviets into a peaceful resolution of the crisis. But virtually his entire national security apparatus was pushing the president to take military action against Cuba. Leading the charge for an aggressive response were the members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who were urging the president to launch surprise air strikes on the island and then invade.”[38]
Air Force Chief Curtis LeMay, who had been advocating nuclear war with the Soviet Union since the early 1950s, thought Cuba was a “sideshow” and told the President that the United States should “fry it.” LeMay, himself a member of the Joint Chiefs, “was in the habit of taking bullying command of Joint Chiefs meetings,” and with LeMay leading the charge for war, “the other chiefs jumped into the fray, repeating the Air Force general’s call for immediate military action.” LeMay even did something remarkable for a military official:
“He decided to violate traditional military-civilian boundaries and issue a barely veiled political threat. If the president responded weakly to the Soviet challenge in Cuba, he warned him, there would be political repercussions overseas, where Kennedy’s government would be perceived as spineless. “And I’m sure a lot of our own citizens would feel that way too,” LeMay added. With his close ties to militaristic congressional leaders and the far right, LeMay left no doubt about the political damage he could cause the administration. “In other words, you’re in a pretty bad fix at the present time,” LeMay told Kennedy.[39]
Kennedy asked him to repeat what he said, LeMay obliged, and Kennedy retorted, “You’re in there with me.” Kennedy soon left the meeting with McNamara, “the confrontation with his top military men had clearly disturbed the commander-in-chief. Later he told an aide that the administration needed to make sure that the Joint Chiefs did not start a war without his approval, a chronic fear of JFK’s.” After Kennedy and McNamara left the meeting, a secret taping system in the office recorded the conversation between the generals, who “began profanely condemning Kennedy’s cautious, incremental approach to the crisis.”[40]
LeMay’s right-hand man, General Tommy Power, who even LeMay regarded as “not stable,” had taken “it upon himself to raise the Strategic Air Command’s alert status to DEFCON-2, one step from nuclear war,” and ensured that the Soviets knew it. The White House was completely unaware of Power’s actions at the time.[41]
As the crisis continued, Kennedy ordered McNamara “to keep close watch over the Navy to make sure U.S. vessels didn’t do anything that would trigger World War III.” Admiral Anderson, Chief of Naval Operations, who was running the Naval blockade of Cuba, was increasingly frustrated at McNamara’s “hands-on control” of the blockade and clashed with the Defense Secretary in the Navy’s Flag Plot room, suggesting that he didn’t need McNamara’s advice on managing the blockade, prompting McNamara to respond explaining that he doesn’t “give a damn” about past procedures for running blockades, to which Anderson replied, “Mr. Secretary, you go back to your office and I’ll go to mine and we’ll take care of things.” As Anderson later recalled, “Apparently it was the wrong thing to say to somebody of McNamara’s personality,” as when McNamara left the office, he told his aide, “That’s the end of Anderson.” Anderson, months after the Cuban Missile Crisis, was sent to Portugal as ambassador, “where he would be chummy with dictator Antonio Salazar.”[42]
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, it wasn’t the Joint Chiefs alone who were trying to push for war, as the “CIA also played a dangerous game during the crisis,” as Kennedy had ordered the CIA to halt all raids against Cuba during the crisis, “to make sure that no flying sparks from the agency’s secret operations set off a nuclear conflagration.” However, Bill Harvey, the CIA agent in charge of “Operation Mongoose,” the CIA plan which employed the Mafia to attempt to kill Castro, in brazen defiance of Kennedy’s orders, mobilized “every single team and asset that we could scrape together” and then dropped them into Cuba, “in anticipation of the U.S. invasion that the CIA hoped was soon to follow.”[43]
Robert Kennedy became the conduit through which the back-channel negotiations took place with the Soviets that ultimately ended the crisis without catastrophe. Nikita Khrushchev recounted the situation in his memoirs, in which he explained that Robert Kennedy “stressed how fragile his brother’s rule was becoming as the crisis dragged on,” which struck Khrushchev as “especially urgent.” Robert Kennedy warned the Soviets that, “If the situation continues much longer, the president is not sure that the military will not overthrow him and seize power. The American army could get out of control.” Khrushchev even later wrote that, “for some time we had felt there was a danger that the president would lose control of his military,” and that, “now he was admitting this to us himself.” Thus:
“Moscow’s fear that Kennedy might be toppled in a coup, Khrushchev suggested in his memoirs, led the Soviets to reach a settlement of the missile crisis with the president. “We could sense from the tone of the message that tension in the United States was indeed reaching a critical point.””[44][74]
October 24, 1963 JFK asks French journalist Jean Daniel to pass along his good
intentions to Fidel Castro during an upcoming interview. Castro seems open to normalizing
relations and speaks well of JFK to Daniel.
On this same day, however, thirteen major operations by RFK’s Cuban Coordinating
Committee (CCC), including the sabotage of an electric power plant, an oil refinery, and a sugar
mill, are approved for the period from November 1963 through January 1964.
Anti-United Nations demonstrators shove, boo, beat and spit in the face of Adlai E.
Stevenson following a speech he makes in Dallas marking United Nations Day.
Also today, three weeks after Alex Rorke and Geoffrey Sullivan have disappeared in
their rented Beechcraft airplane, a search party is organized by Frank Sturgis’s cohort Gerry
Patrick Hemming and fellow members of the International Anti-Communist Brigade. The search
party will set out in a DC-3 on October 31st -- and is ultimately unsuccessful.[75]
October 24, 1963 — was the “anniversary” of a moment in Dallas that is just (pick your word) embarrassing, despicable, just plain wrong… and, maybe, sadly, revealing about one “part” of Texas.
Adlai Stevenson served as the Ambassador to the United Nations. He came to Dallas to give a speech on “United Nations Day,” and a group of protestors surrounded him outside the auditorium after the speech. From a recent article by Scott K. Parks chronicling the event, from the Dallas Morning News, Extremists in Dallas created volatile atmosphere before JFK’s 1963 visit:
Adlai Stevenson "assaulted," October 24, 1963, in Dallas
Adlai Stevenson “assaulted,” October 24, 1963, in Dallas
After the speech, a hostile crowd of about 100 protesters surrounded the ambassador outside the auditorium. Many carried signs denouncing the U.N. — signs that had been stored at (General) Walker’s home.
Stevenson tried to reason with the protesters. Suddenly, one woman conked him on the head with her sign. A man spat on him. After police broke through the crowd to rescue him, Stevenson was heard to say, “Are these human beings or are these animals?”
Once again, the spotlight shone on Dallas. “A City Disgraced,” read the headline in Time magazine.
The Dallas Morning News, in an editorial headlined “Our Apologies,” defended the ambassador’s right to deliver his speech and admonished demonstrators for their crude manners. The editorial ended with words that, read today, are chilling:
“The President of the United States will be here in November. We trust he will be welcomed and accorded the respect and dignity that go with the office he represents.”
The name of the woman who hit Ambassador Stevens was Cora Lacy Frederickson, an insurance executive’s wife. In an interview (reported in the book Dallas 1963 by Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis), she stated that she did not hit Mr. Stevenson – that she was pushed from behind. From the book:
“There were a bunch of colored people in back of me – I was pushed from behind by a Negro.”
(The film that was shown on the news, and the photo included in this post, tell a different story).
People live, and work, in a culture – a community of folks who think and work and interact in certain ways. Culture runs deep. (There is a revealing chapter in Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers about the culture of Harlan, Kentucky. Fascinating read).[76]
October 24, 1963: Attack on U.N. envoy
At his home, Walker flew an American flag upside down — a symbol of distress. Later, he would plant a billboard in his yard calling for the impeachment of Earl Warren, the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, who was viewed by the far right as the evil architect of school integration and the outlawing of officially sanctioned prayers in the classroom.
But those symbols were mere smudges on the national snapshot of Dallas, compared with the attack on U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson II on Oct. 24, 1963, a month before Kennedy’s assassination.
The story goes like this: When Walker heard that Stevenson was coming to Dallas to deliver a speech at Memorial Auditorium commemorating U.N. Day, he scheduled a “U.S. Day” celebration one day earlier at the same downtown locale.
Walker, speaking to 1,000 people, called his gathering a “symbol of our sovereignty,” then added: “Tomorrow night, there will stand here a symbol of the communist conspiracy and its United Nations.”
During Stevenson’s U.N. Day address, a heckler stood up in the audience and began shouting into a bullhorn. He was later identified as a founder of the National Indignation Convention, another right-wing Dallas group that had supported Walker in his failed run for governor.
Police escorted the heckler from the auditorium, but the trouble had just begun.
After the speech, a hostile crowd of about 100 protesters surrounded the ambassador outside the auditorium. Many carried signs denouncing the U.N. — signs that had been stored at Walker’s home, according to Payne, the Dallas historian.
Stevenson tried to reason with the protesters. Suddenly, one woman conked him on the head with her sign. A man spat on him. After police broke through the crowd to rescue him, Stevenson was heard to say, “Are these human beings or are these animals?”
Once again, the spotlight shone on Dallas. “A City Disgraced,” read the headline in Time magazine.
The Dallas Morning News, in an editorial headlined “Our Apologies,” defended the ambassador’s right to deliver his speech and admonished demonstrators for their crude manners. The editorial ended with words that, read today, are chilling:
“The President of the United States will be here in November. We trust he will be welcomed and accorded the respect and dignity that go with the office he represents.”[77]
also alleged that the President and the Attorney General had availed themselves of services of playgirls.”
The remainder of the text of this memo remains censored.
Today, gunsmith Howard Price says he sees LHO practicing with his rifle at the
Sportsdrome Gun Range in Grand Prairie - thirteen miles from Oswald’s Beckley Street
apartment. He says: “There’s no doubt it was Oswald.” Price also remembers that “other people
were with him.” Price remembers that someone passes a wrapped-up rifle over the five-foot fence
to LHO.
Jack Ruby today places a long distance phone call to Irwin S. Weiner in Chicago, with
whom he speaks for 12 minutes. Weiner is a prominent bondsman in Chicago, who has been
closely linked with such figures as James Hoffa, Santos Trafficante, Sam Giancana, Paul and
Allen Dorfman.
Also today, KGB deputy chairman of the Secretariat, S. Bannikov, sends the Ministry of
foreign Affairs the following letter:
To Deputy Minister of foreign Affairs, Comrade
V. V. Kuznetsov: Comrade Bazarov (Soviet ambassador
to Mexico) reports that an American citizen, Lee
Harvey Oswald, came to the embassy in Mexico to
request permanent immigration to the Soviet
Union.” The letter continues with Oswald’s history from 1959
up to his return to the United States. It concludes by stating, “In
our opinion, it is inadvisable to permit Oswald
to return to the Soviet Union.” [78]
October 24, 1978: In Iran, the Leader of the Opposition in the Lower House of the Majlis bitterly criticized the British Foreign Secretary, Dr. Owen, for supporting “alien and anti-Iranian policies” in his recent statement of support for the Shah. The U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary, Mr. Charles Duncan, arrived in Tehran for confidential talks on the subject of a possible reduction in Iranian arms contracts with the U.S.[79]
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[1] This Day in Jewish History
[2] http://www.jewishhistory.org.il/history.php?startyear=69&endyear=79
[3] Wikipedia
[4] Wikipedia
[5] Wikipedia
[6] Wikipedia
[7] http://www.tudor-history.com/about-tudors/tudor-timeline/
[8] http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~harrisonrep/Harrison/d0069/g0000031.html#I978
[9] Lost Worlds, King Henry VIII, 8/22/2007 HISTI
[10] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_II_of_France
[11] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Knox
[12] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Knox
[13] http://archive.org/stream/lettersofmarystu00mary/lettersofmarystu00mary_djvu.txt
[14] http://archive.org/stream/lettersofmarystu00mary/lettersofmarystu00mary_djvu.txt
[15] http://archive.org/stream/lettersofmarystu00mary/lettersofmarystu00mary_djvu.txt
[16] Wikipedia
[17] To http://www.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/ifa_image.cgi?IN=006571&PN=452&SEC=Soldiers%20in%20King%20Philip%27s%20War%2C%201675-1677&CD=504
[18] The American Pageant, Bailey, Kennedy, Cohen, pg 66
[19] Art Museum, Austin, TX. February 11, 2012
[20] Art Museum, Austin, TX. February 11, 2012.
[21] Art Museum, Austin, TX. February 11, 2012
[22] Art Museum, Austin, TX. February 11, 2012
[23] http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=de&to=en&a=http://www.alemannia-judaica.de/werneck_synagoge.htm
[24] Zeuzleben
Zeuzleben
Municipality of Werneck
Coordinates:
49° 99083 N, 10° 5′ O 49.97611111111110.076666666667219Coordinates: 49° 58′ 34″ N, 10° 4 ' 36″ O (Map ))
Height:
219 m above sea level
Inhabitants:
992 (July 1, 2005)
View of the village
•Zeuzleben is a part of the municipality of Werneck in the Bavarian District of Schweinfurt in lower Franconia.
Geographical location
The village lies north of the River Wern in a valley.
Geology
The soil consists of Muschelkalk heights. Zeuzleben has quarries, deciduous forests and farmland.
History
Prehistoric finds
The prehistoric necropolis of Zeuzleben contained 15 mostly decapitated horses, to 4 large dogs, who were single, double and triple buried and are mostly not human grave sites related to contact, and a woman's grave with car addition, which emerged 530-540 in the Merovingian period . A scale replica of the tomb of Franconian open air museum Bad Windsheim was built at the Archaeological museum and can be visited there. [1]
First mention
876, Zeuzleben had its first documentary mention. Previously used place names are "Zutilebe" and "Zuzeleibe" and probably a paraphrase of "Heritage of Zuto".
Culture and sights
Buildings
Zeuzleben is the 1753-1754-built Catholic Church of St. Bartholomew. In addition, the oldest Bildstock in the District of Schweinfurt, which dates from 1536 stands on the village square.
Web links Zeuzleben on werneck.de
Commons: Zeuzleben -collection of images, videos and audio files
External links ↑ the Merovingian cemetery of Zeuzleben, retrieved on May 5, 2010
[25] http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=de&to=en&a=http://www.alemannia-judaica.de/werneck_synagoge.htm
[26] http://www.americanrevolution.org/hessians/hess5.html
[27] http://jerseyman-historynowandthen.blogspot.com/2011_02_01_archive.html
[28] The Battle for Fort Mercer: The American Defenders
Text below extracted from the Diary of Colonel Israel Angell, Commanding Officer, 2nd Rhode Island Regiment, Continental Army.
[29] http://www.artfact.com/auction-lot/gironcourt,-charles-auguste-de-1756-1811-.-plan-1-c-d625fbe0d4
[30] In Search of Turkey Foot Road, page 103.
[31] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kemp%27s_Landing
[32] http://wwwpast2present.org
[33] This Day in Jewish History
[34] Timetable of Cherokee Removal.
[35] Crawford Coat of Arms.
[36] http://whitsett-wall.com/Whitsett/whitsett_simeon.htm
[37] "The last week in October about one half of the prisoners, comprising several thousand, were counted off and marched out of the inclosure....We were packed like sardines in box cars, and started on a free ride to Salisbury Prison." (John W. Hill, 1st Conn. Cav., Remembering Salisbury, (Stories from the Prisoners of War by Kathy Dhalle page 65.)
At Greensboro we were marched to an open field, where much attention was given to us by the residents. A kindly feeling seemed to pervade the atmosphere, as we were well treated. The next day we started on our journey for Salisbury. The ride was a bitter cold one to very many of us, as we were on open cars. As I entered Salisbury Prison there came over me a homesick feeling that I cannot describe. To be a prisoner of war, with even fair treatment, is bad enough, but to be a prisoner turned loose into an inclosure, such as Salisbury Prison pen, insufficiantly clad and fed, and with but slight protection from the weather in form of shelter, simply meant starvation and death. A great dark blot upon the South's reputation, which can never be effaced, is the treatment of prisoners in Andersonville, Salisbury and other prison pens. I have in my home a large lithograph, framed and hanging on the wall. This picture is a perfect reproduction of the Salisbury Pen. It is 32 x 42 inches, thus giving ample room, and is perfect in all its details, even to the old well. It was presented to me several yeas since by Mr. Gordon, A Southern manufacturer. This picture was taken by Mr. Gordon's brother, who lived near Salisbury at the time. Uner the picture, on the margin, is a description in large letters. It reads: "Salisbury Prison. Taken in 1864."
(John W. Hill, 1st Conn. Cav., Remembering Salisbury, (Stories from the Prisoners of War by Kathy Dhalle page 65.)
When the Union stopped the exchange of prisoners in August 1864 the population in the Prison began to rise. Additional recently captured soldiers and transferred prisoneers from other areas increased the number held at the Salisbury Prison to 5,000 by October 1864. Ten thousand men were crowded into the stockade by November and conditions began to change dramatically.(www.salisburyprison.org/prisonhistory,htm)
The worst suffering that resulted from the closing of Andersonville, however, was born by the prisoners who were shipped to Salisbury Prison in North Carolina. The inmate population at Salisbury had remained low since the initianion of exchanges in 1862, but that situation rapidly changed for the worse after the shuttering of the Georgia camp. When the number of captives confined at Belle Isle and Libby began yet another precipitious climb, the War Department ordered Major Thomas Turner, the commander of prisons in Richmond, to begin shipping excess Federals to Salisbury as quickly as possible. Turner attempted to comply, but the transfer was a nightmare from the start. Due to a combination of haste and poor planning, the initial trainloads of prisoners were sent from the capital without a single ration, and they remained without food for the three days of their journey. Their situation improved only slightly when they arrived at their destination. Rations had been adequate for the few hundred prisoners who had been confined at Salisbury during the first nine months of 1864, but they were quickly exhausted by the flood of new arrivals. Major John H. Gee commanded at Salisbury, having been warned in September to prepare for "a very large number of prisoners," he had immediately begun to enlarge the camp's stockade and dig additional wells. These projects were scarcely underway when the first wave of captives arrived on 5 October. Over the next eight weeks, 10,321 Yanks were shipped to Salisbury, and Gee and his staff were completely overwhelmed. Most of the prisoners arrived clad in rags, and replacement clothing could be provided only by stripping the dead before burial. The available barracks space was sufficient for barely half of the captives, and although this was supplemented by three hundred tents of varying sizes, almost four thousand of Salisbury's new inmates secured protection from the elements only by burrowing holes in the earth or contruction crude shelters from scraps of lumber and bits of blankets.
In order to suply one meal daily for this multitude of prisoners and the Confederate garrison, Captain Abram Myers, the post commissary officer, had to procure 13000 rations every twenty four hours. Myers earnestly attempted to satisfy this staggering requirement by instituting a ferocious impressment and commandeering local mills to grind the corn and wheat he took from farmers, but the suppy of food he amassed could not keep pace with the demand. Meat virtually disappeared from the prisoners diet, daily rations of bread grew ever smaller, and often the men were issued only unbolted cornmeal to eat. Under such conditions, the prison yards at Salisbury were transformed into a surreal world of starving savages, where the strongest prisoners stole the rations of the weak and infirm. Man nealy mad from hunger raided garbage piles in search of discarded bones; they killed and devoured rats and the few dogs and cats that strayed into the camp and consumed raw acorns that fell from the trees bordering the stockade.
(While in the Hands of the Enemy, Military Prisons of the Civil War by Charles W. Sanders, Jr. 2005.)
[38] Tenders thanks of nation to Gen. Sheridan for successful operations in Shenandoah Valley, including his famous ride from Winchester, Va., and defeat of Confederates at Cedar Creek. Abraham Lincoln to Philip H. Sheridan, October 22, 1864, CW, 8:73-74.
To Philip H. Sheridan [1]
Executive Mansion Washington,
Major General Sheridan Oct. 22. 1864
With great pleasure I tender to you and your brave army, the thanks of the Nation, and my own personal admiration and gratitude, for the month's operations in the Shenandoah Valley; and especially for the splendid work of October 19, 1864. Your Obt. Servt. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Annotation
[1] ALS, DLC; ADfS, DLC-RTL. On October 19, following Sheridan's famous ``ride'' from Winchester, Virginia, to rally his defeated army, the Union forces routed the Confederates at Cedar Creek to conclude the Shenandoah Valley campaign.
[39] October 24, 1864: General William T. Sherman assumes command of the Union Army of the Tennessee, during the Civil War. (On This Day in America, by John Wagman.
[40] Annotated by Jeffery Lee Goodlove
[41] Proposed Descendants of William Smythe.
[42] Proposed Descendants of William Smythe.
• [43] This Day in Jewish History
[44] http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Gottlober_Avraham_Ber
[45] www.wikipedia.org
[46] Winton Goodlove papers.
[47] Timetable of worldwide volcanic activity. Wikipedia.
[48] http://www.ouramazingplanet.com/1436-volcanoes-biggest-history.html
[49] www.wikipedia.org
[50] http://www.zionism-israel.com/his/Israel_and_Jews_before_the_state_timeline.htm
[51] Winton Goodlove papers.
[52] Art Museum, Austin, Texas. February 11, 2012
[53] French Cemetary, Dubuque, Iowa..
[54] Proposed Descendants of William SMythe.
[55] There Goes the Neighborhood, Rural School Consolidation at the Grass Roots in Twentieth Century Iowa, by David R. Reynolds, page 175.
[56] There Goes the Neighborhood, Rural School Consolidation at the Grass Roots in Twentieth Century Iowa, by David R. Reynolds, page 176.
[57] http://www.as.wvu.edu/WVHistory/documents/090.pdf
[58]This Day in Jewish History.
[59] On This Day in America, by John Wagman.
[60] This Day in Jewish History.
[61] This Day in Jewish History.
[62] This Day in Jewish History., Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Israel Gutman, Editor, page 1768.
[63] This Day in Jewish History.
[64] On This Day in America by John Wagman
[65] This Day in Jewish History
[66] Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Israel Gutman, Editor, page 1774
[67] http://destroyerhistory.org/fletcherclass/ussmorrison/
[68] Nazi Collaborators, MIL, 11/22/2011.
[69] http://destroyerhistory.org/fletcherclass/ussmorrison/
[70] http://www.assassinationresearch.com/v2n1/chrono1.pdf
[71] On This Day in America by John Wagman.
[72] http://www.assassinationresearch.com/v2n1/chrono1.pdf
[73] http://www.assassinationresearch.com/v2n1/chrono1.pdf
[74] http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-national-security-state-and-the-assassination-of-jfk/22071
[75] http://www.assassinationresearch.com/v2n1/chrono1.pdf
[76] http://ffbsccn.wordpress.com/2013/10/25/31725/
[77] http://www.dallasnews.com/news/jfk50/reflect/20131012-extremists-in-dallas-created-volatile-atmosphere-before-jfks-1963-visit.ece
[78] http://www.assassinationresearch.com/v2n1/chrono1.pdf
[79] Jimmy Carter, The Liberal Left and World Chaos by Mike Evans, page 502
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