See also:JACOB DOLSON See also:COX (1828-1900)
, See also:American See also:general, See also:political See also:leader and educationalist, was See also:born on the 27th of See also:October 1828 in See also:Montreal, See also:Canada, His See also:father, a shipbuilder of See also:German descent (See also:Koch) ,and his See also:mother,a descendant of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Brewster, were natives of New See also:York See also:City, where the boy See also:grew up, studying See also:law in an See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office in 1842—1844, and working in a See also:broker's office in 1844-1846, and where, under the See also:influence of See also:Charles G
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Finney (1792-1875), whose daughter he afterwards married, he prepared himself for the See also:ministry
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He graduated at See also:Oberlin See also:College in 1851, having in the meantime given up his theological studies in See also:rebellion at Finney's dogmatism
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In 1851-1853 he was See also:superintendent of See also:schools at See also:Warren, See also:Ohio; in 1853 was admitted to the Ohio be:, being at that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time an See also:anti-See also:slavery Whig; and in 1859 was elected to the See also:state See also:senate, in which with See also:Garfield and See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Monroe (1821—1898) he formed the "See also:Radical Triumvirate," See also:Cox himself presenting a See also:petition for a See also:personal See also:liberty law and urging woman's rights, especially larger See also:property rights to married See also:women
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Appointed by See also:Governor Dennison one of three brigadiers-general of See also:militia in 186o, he eagerly undertook the study of See also:tactics, See also:strategy and military See also:history
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He rendered See also:great assistance in raising troops for the See also:Union service in 1861, enlisted himself in spite of poor See also:health and a See also:family of six small See also:children, and in See also:April was commissioned a brigadier-general, U.S.V
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He took See also:part in the See also:West See also:Virginia See also:campaign of 1861, served in the Kanawha region, in supreme command after See also:Rosecrans's See also:relief in the See also:spring, until See also:August 1862, when his troops were ordered to join See also:Burnside's 9th See also:Corps in Virginia
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After the See also:death at his See also:side of General See also:Reno in the See also:battle of See also:South See also:Mountain, and during See also:Antietam, Cox commanded the corps, and at the See also:close of the campaign (6th Oct
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1862) he was appointed See also:major-general, U.S.V., but the See also:appointment was not confirmed
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In April-See also:December 1863 he was See also:head of the See also:department of Ohio
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In 1864 he took part in the See also:Atlanta campaign under See also:Sherman, as a divisional and subsequently corps-See also:commander: at the battle of See also:Franklin he commanded the 23rd Corps, and he served at See also:Nashville also
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He led an expedition following Sherman into the Carolinas and fought two successful actions with See also:Bragg at Kinston, N.C
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He was governor of Ohio in 1866-1867, and as such advocated the colonization of the freedmen in a restricted See also:area, and sympathized with See also:President See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson's See also:programme of Reconstruction and worked for a See also:compromise between Johnson and his opponents, although he finally deserted Johnson
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In r868 he was chairman of the Republican See also:national See also:convention which nominated See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
Grant
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He was secretary of the interior in 1869-187o; opposed the See also:confirmation of the treaty for the See also:annexation of Santo Domingo, negotiated by O
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E
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Babcock and urged by President Grant; introduced the merit See also:system in his department, and resigned in October 187o because of pressure put on him by, politicians piqued at his See also:prohibition of campaign levies on his clerks, and because of the interference of Grant in favour of William McGarrahan's See also:attempt by legal proceedings to obtain from Cox a patent to certain See also:California See also:mining lands
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He took up legal practice in See also:Cincinnati, became president in 1873, and until 1877 was See also:receiver, of the See also:Toledo & See also:Wabash & Western
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In 1877-1879 he was a representative in See also:Congress
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From 1881 to 1897 he was See also:dean of the Cincinnati law school, and from 1885 to 1889 president of the University of Cincinnati
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He died at See also:Magnolia, See also:Massachusetts, on the 4th of August 1900
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A successful lawyer, and in his later years a prominent microscopist, who won a See also:gold See also:medal of See also:honour for microphotography at the See also:Antwerp Exposition of 1891, he is best known as one of the greatest " civilian " generals of the See also:Civil See also:War, and, with the possible exception of J
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C
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See also:Ropes, the highest American authority of his time on military history, particularly the history of the American Civil War
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He wrote Atlanta (New York, 1882) and The See also:March to the See also:Sea, Franklin and Nashville (New York, 1882), both in the See also:series See also:Campaigns of the Civil War; The Second Battle of See also:Bull Run, as Connected
with the Fitz-See also:John See also:Porter See also:Case (Cincinnati, 1882); and the valuable Military Reminiscences of the Civil War (2 vols., New York, 1900) published posthumously
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See J
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See also:Ewing, Public Services of See also:Jacob Dolson Cox (See also:Washington, 1902), a Johns See also:Hopkins University dissertation; and W
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Cochran, " See also:Early See also:Life and Military Services of General Jacob Dolson Cox," in Bibliotheca Sacra, vol
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58 (Oberlin, Ohio, 1901)
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