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spring and 1861
As the long winter of 1861 turned into spring, that old flag meant something new.
In the spring of 1861, shortly before the beginning of the American Civil War, the government of San Marino wrote a letter ( in " perfect Italian on one side, and imperfect but clear English on the other ") to United States President Abraham Lincoln, proposing an " alliance " between the two democratic nations and offering the President honorary San Marino citizenship.
In the spring of 1861, he returned to a nation in the throes of the Civil War.
In the spring of 1861, Robert Cravens of Chattanooga began mining saltpeter, the main ingredient of gunpowder, at Nickajack Cave.
Early in the spring of 1861, Mathews was commissioned a captain in the Confederate Army and given orders to organize a company of soldiers from among sympathetic Native Americans, specifically, the Quapaw.
The first rolling mill was built between the spring of 1861 and the summer of 1863, with the first railroad rails being rolled on September 26.
In July 1860 this happened, and in the spring of 1861 the estates were once more at open odds with the Danish government.
Nelson returned to Albion in the spring of 1861, when the American Civil War had started.
As the long winter of 1861 turned into spring, that old flag meant something new.
In late spring 1861 Union troops from Ohio moved into western Virginia with the primary strategic goal of protecting the B & O Railroad.
While business had been slow or depressed in spring 1861 because of war fears and Southern boycotts, by fall business was hiring again, offering young men jobs that were an alternative way to help win the war.
From 1858 until the spring of 1861 he held the office of clerk and master of the court of equity of Rockingham County.
When the Civil War broke out in spring 1861, Belknap joined Union Army and was eventually promoted Brevet Maj. General in 1865 for his gallantry during Maj. Gen. Sherman's Atlanta Campaign earlier in 1864.
The winter and spring floods of 1861 and 1862 ruined their lands, and the Bradleys moved to Nevada where he worked in the cattle business in Elko County.
He then resigned from the U. S. Army, in the spring of 1861 after Virginia seceded from the Union.
The modern history of the division originated in the spring of 1861 with the 1st Battalion, 128th Infantry and the 2nd Regiment, 1st Wisconsin Cavalry.
From late 1853 until the outbreak of the Civil War in the spring of 1861, Lieutenant Crosby served in the sloops of war, of the Brazil Squadron, and, and on board the receiving ship at Philadelphia.
In the spring of 1861, with the Southern states leaving the Union and Confederate forces mounting a siege at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, Gideon Welles summoned Ward to Washington to plan for a relief expedition for Sumter.
It is unclear as to whether Yang was still funding the Corps in the late fall of 1860, but upon Ward's return in the spring of 1861, Ward was able to attract desired elements of the Corps back to his employ.
All of these general-officer assignments were in the spring and summer of 1861.
The song was premiered by lyricist Harry McCarthy during a concert in Jackson, Mississippi, in the spring of 1861 and performed again in September of that same year at the New Orleans Academy of Music for the First Texas Volunteer Infantry regiment mustering in celebration.
Beginning in 1860 Huger commanded the Charleston Arsenal, holding the post until resigning in the spring of 1861.
From late 1857 until after the outbreak of the American Civil War in the spring of 1861, Gwin was an officer of the steamer Saranac and sloop of war Vandalia, both in the Pacific, and of the steam frigate Susquehanna in the Mediterranean.
In the spring of 1861, a year before achieving fame as a Confederate general, Robert E. Lee was commanding a small force in western Virginia.

spring and Carnegie
When Henry Clay Frick, manager for Andrew Carnegie, owner of the local Homestead Steel Works, announced in the spring of 1892 that skilled workers would receive a reduction in wages, the advisory committee of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers refused to sign a new contract.
During his military service Ward managed to compose two serious orchestral compositions, Adagio and Allegro, first performed in New York in 1944, and Jubilation: An Overture, which was written mostly on Okinawa, Japan, in 1945, and was premiered at Carnegie Hall by the National Orchestral Association the following spring.
The band appears in spring and winter concerts and at home football games ; it performs its Scatter Show at halftime during Carnegie Mellon ’ s Homecoming game.
The Carnegie Endowment acquired full ownership of Foreign Policy magazine in the spring of 1978.
Faddis led The CJE from autumn 2004 though spring 2010, premiering significant new works, pioneering educational initiatives in Chicago public schools focusing on Louis Armstrong's music, and bringing The CJE into new venues ( including presenting the first of the " Made in Chicago " Jazz series at the Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park ), while concurrently leading the Jon Faddis Jazz Orchestra of New York ( the successor to the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band ).
In the spring of 2002, Playbill signed a contract with Carnegie Hall ; this milestone was bookended by the earlier acquisition of the valuable Metropolitan Opera program and the ensuing contract with the New York Philharmonic — both tenants of Stagebill's erstwhile stronghold Lincoln Center.
The supply they were led to was an underground spring in a hidden cave, which Carnegie named Empress Spring after Queen Victoria.
In the spring of 1872, Andrew Carnegie ( while on a bond-selling trip ) made a survey of Bessemer steel works in Europe and returned to the U. S. highly enthusiastic about the new project.
After a couple of years in business, he started his PhD studies in the spring semester of 1962 at Carnegie Mellon University.
The Instrumental Music Department holds many concerts throughout the year and performed at Carnegie Hall in New York City in spring of 2006.

spring and was
Because the summer was unusually dry and hot, the spring produced a smaller stream than in ordinary years.
A few months ago it was a fairly typical landlord who in the dead of night lugged me up a mountainside to drink from a spring famous in the neighborhood for its clarity and flavor.
Little enough joy was afforded Wright in the spring of 1925, when another destructive fire broke out at Taliesin.
That spring Welcome To Our City was selected for production by the 47 Workshop and it was staged in the middle of May.
It was in the spring of the year when he took to his bed and Tessie and Alfred found out that they didn't know each other.
This was just Richard's way of saying that last year the Birds opened spring training with a lot of jobs wide open.
Since it was issued in the spring of 1611, the King James Version has been most generally considered the most poetic and beautiful of all translations of the Bible.
According to one report, however, Mr. Hammarskjold was considered `` too controversial '' a figure to warrant bestowal of the coveted honor last spring.
My eyes were so bleary I could barely see him but there he was, a little smooth olivefaced guy in a new spring overcoat and a taffycolored fedora.
In spring and in autumn the run was made for a group of botanists which included an old friend of mine.
In January, 1958, the Minister of the Interior announced that an election law was ready to be submitted to the King, the rumors of election dates appeared once again, first for spring of 1958 and later for the summer.
In late 1957 the M.P. ( Mouvement Populaire ) appeared and in the spring of 1958 the internal strains of the Istiqlal was revealed when the third Council of Government under Balafrej was formed without support from progressive elements in the party.
The sailing in the spring of 1610 was Hudson's fourth in four years.
In the spring when penned cattle were turned out to grass, this was spoken of as `` turn-out time '', or `` put to grass ''.
He was fifteen years older than I -- forty-four -- but full of spring and sparkle.
Now it was nine years later, and it wasn't spring but winter when I returned.
In the spring of 1863, Lincoln was optimistic about upcoming campaigns to the point of thinking the end of the war could be near if a string of victories could be put together ; these plans included Hooker's attack on Lee north of Richmond, Rosecrans ' on Chattanooga, Grant's on Vicksburg, and a naval assault on Charleston.
By the spring of 1863, he was ready to recruit black troops in more than token numbers.
Grannus was a healing spring god, later equated with Apollo.
* In Oropus, north of Athens, the oracle Amphiaraus, was said to be the son of Apollo ; Oropus also had a sacred spring.
This was the spring which emitted vapors that caused the oracle at Delphi to give her prophecies.
Water from this spring was sacred ; it was used to clean the Delphian temples and inspire the priestesses.

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