Levi Woodbury (American National Biography)
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Judith K. Schafer, "Woodbury, Levi," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/03/03-00548.html.
Woodbury wrote perhaps his most controversial decision in 1847 in Jones v. Van Zandt. The decision hinged on the constitutionality of the federal Fugitive Slave Act of 1793. John Van Zandt's attorneys, William H. Seward and Salmon P. Chase, argued that the act was unconstitutional because higher moral law took precedence over the slave-catching statute. Woodbury rejected this argument, contending that the original compromises of the Constitutional Convention required the strict enforcement of acts giving slaveholders the right of rendition of their fugitive slaves.
Portsmouth, NH
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Boston (MA) Liberator, "Slave-Hunters in Boston," November 1, 1850
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Slave-Hunters in Boston!!
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John Churchill Brooking (Dickinson Alumni Record)
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George Leffingwell Reed, ed., Alumni Record: Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA: Dickinson College, 1905), 175.
*Brooking, John Churchill – Born February 21, 1836, at Stevensburg, Va.; A. B., 1858; U. P. society; 1858, taught at Point Pleasant, W. Va.; 1861-7, taught at Trappe, Md.; 1867, removed to Huntsville, Mo., where he died March 26, 1869.
Roane County, TN
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Ohio in the War: Her Statesmen, Her Generals, and Soldiers
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Whitelaw Reid, “Brevet Brigadier-General R. N. Adams,” History of the State during the War, and the Lives of Her Generals, vol. 1 of Ohio in the War: Her Statesmen, Her Generals, and Soldiers (New York: Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin, 1868), 954.
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ROBERT N. ADAMS was born in Fayette County, Ohio, near Greenfield, in 1835. He is a descendant of the Douglas family, coming from the Scottish Presbyterian stock, whose traditional firmness of purpose and uprightness of character he inherits. His early life was spent on the farm, and in preparing himself for college at the Greenfield school.
In 1858 he entered Miami University, where he remained until near the close of his junior year, when the rebellion broke out, and he joined the "University Rifles," a company organized at Oxford, in which he served as a private in the Twentieth Ohio through the three months’ service. In August, 1861, he organized a company at Greenfield, of which he was made Captain. It joined the Eighty-First Ohio Infantry. On May 7, 1862, he was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel, and August 8, 1864, to Colonel of the regiment. In these different grades he served with his regiment, first in Missouri, under Fremont, and afterward with the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Corps, of the Army of the Tennessee. During the latter portion of the Atlanta campaign, and through the march to Savannah, and to Washington, hoe commanded a brigade. His appointment as Brevet Brigadier-General was made in May, 1865, to date from March 13, 1865.
In July, 1865, he was mustered out with his regiment. He participated in the battles of Pittsburg Landing, Corinth, Town Creek, Resaca, Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain, Nicojack Creek, Atlanta, July 22d and 28th; Jonesboro’ (at which place he was slightly wounded), and Hobkirk’s Hill.
After the war he entered upon the study of theology, a design which he had cherished for years.
In 1858 he entered Miami University, where he remained until near the close of his junior year, when the rebellion broke out, and he joined the "University Rifles," a company organized at Oxford, in which he served as a private in the Twentieth Ohio through the three months’ service. In August, 1861, he organized a company at Greenfield, of which he was made Captain. It joined the Eighty-First Ohio Infantry. On May 7, 1862, he was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel, and August 8, 1864, to Colonel of the regiment. In these different grades he served with his regiment, first in Missouri, under Fremont, and afterward with the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Corps, of the Army of the Tennessee. During the latter portion of the Atlanta campaign, and through the march to Savannah, and to Washington, hoe commanded a brigade. His appointment as Brevet Brigadier-General was made in May, 1865, to date from March 13, 1865.
In July, 1865, he was mustered out with his regiment. He participated in the battles of Pittsburg Landing, Corinth, Town Creek, Resaca, Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain, Nicojack Creek, Atlanta, July 22d and 28th; Jonesboro’ (at which place he was slightly wounded), and Hobkirk’s Hill.
After the war he entered upon the study of theology, a design which he had cherished for years.