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Grady County, OK
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Second Cavalry under Captain Earl Van Dorn battles with Comanche Indians at Wichita Village in Indian Territory
Four companies of the U.S. Second Cavalry, numbering around 225 men, met with a large group of Comanche Indians at the Wichita Village on Horse Creek in what is today Grady County, Oklahoma. The five hundred Comanche, unknown to Van Dorn, were on their way to a parley at Fort Arbuckle. Van Dorn ordered a classic cavalry charge and after a two hour fight drove off the Indians who lost around seventy dead. Lieutenant Cornelius Van Camp, a West Point graduate of 1855, was killed and Van Dorn himself wounded by an arrow. (By John Osborne)
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Julia Ward Howe (American National Biography)
Sandra F. VanBurkleo and Mary Jo Miles, "Howe, Julia Ward," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/15/15-00348.html.
By far Howe's most famous work, the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," was published in the Atlantic Monthly in February 1862. She wrote the poem in 1861 while in Washington, D.C., with her husband, who was helping distribute supplies to Massachusetts regiments. Set to the music of "John Brown's Body," her poem became the rallying song for the North during the final year of the Civil War.
Lucy Stone (American National Biography)
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Carol Lasser, "Stone, Lucy," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/15/15-00663.html.
Lucy Stone was a key figure in the American woman's rights movement for nearly a half century, bringing it from tutelage within the abolitionist movement to full organizational autonomy. Firmly committed to natural rights irrespective of sex, Stone maintained a distance from more controversial gender issues, such as divorce and free love. Instead, she worked tirelessly as lecturer, organizer, publisher, and tactician in pursuit of full legal equality, particularly the enfranchisement of women.
John Hancock (American National Biography)
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Leonard Schlup, "Hancock, John," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/04/04-00463.html.
In 1860 [John] Hancock was elected to the Texas House of Representatives. A Unionist fiercely opposed to secession, he was expelled from the state legislature in 1861 for his refusal to take the oath of allegiance to the Confederacy when Texas left the Union. Hancock thereupon continued his law practice. Dressed in a frock coat and tall hat, his appearance suited a successful lawyer who had become familiar with the land laws of Texas. In 1864 he defended four men arrested as Unionists.
Bellefonte, AL
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John Hancock (Congressional Biographical Directory)
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"Hancock, John," Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000150.
HANCOCK, John, a Representative from Texas; born near Bellefonte, Jackson County, Ala., October 24, 1824; attended the public schools and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1846; settled in Austin, Tex., in 1847 and practiced his profession there until August 1851; served as judge of the second judicial district of Texas from 1851 to 1855, when he resigned; resumed the practice of law and engaged in planting and stock raising; member of the State house of representatives in 1860 and 1861; refused to take the oath of allegianc
Anna Elizabeth Dickinson (American National Biography)
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Kathleen C. Berkeley, "Dickinson, Anna Elizabeth," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/15/15-00177.html.
Dickinson's remarkable public career began in 1856 when William Lloyd Garrison published in the Liberator a letter young Dickinson had written protesting the apparent indifference and political apathy of northerners to the tarring and feathering of a Kentucky schoolteacher who had criticized slavery. Four years later Dickinson delivered her first public address, "The Rights and Wrongs of Women," at Clarkson Hall in Philadelphia.
The Southern Commercial Convention is meeting in Vicksburg, Mississippi with slavery high on the agenda
Following on from a convention in Knoxville in 1857, and another in 1858 in Montgomery, the Vicksburg Convention assembled delegates from all over the South to discuss commercial matters. With a preponderance of radicals in attendance, the topic of slavery became prominent and James De Bow of South Carolina famously advocated the resumption of the African slave trade. After a long debate in which economist De Bow laid out arguments of supply and demand, the Convention voted 44 to 19 to urge southern states to repeal all laws preventing the importation of slaves from Africa. (By John Osborne)
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