{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3142", "width": "1914", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "V^v\\n^c,-\\n7 ^s^%", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "?^^o^\\nC^ o^\\ni", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "Kearsarge,\\nFTiNG HIS Titan forehead to the sun.\\nWhittier.\\nAS TO\\n^^EARSARGE MOUNTAIN,\\nAND THE CORVETTE\\nNAMED FOR IT.\\nCONCORD, N. H.\\nPRINTED BY THE REPUBLICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION.\\n1879.", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "AS TO\\nKEARSARGE MOUNTAIN,\\nAN\u00c2\u00a9 THE\\nCORVETTE\\nNAMED FOR IT.\\n(yU f^- VM\\nKeaTsarge,\\nLifting his Titan forehead to the sun. Whittier.\\nCONCORD, N. If.:\\nPKINTED BY THE KEPUBLICAN PKESS ASSOCIATION.\\n1879.\\nr", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "^6(L.", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "I\\nTHE MOUNTAI N.\\nKearsarge mountain is in Merriinack county,\\nNew Hampshire, within the towns of Andover,\\nNew London, Salisbury, Sutton, Warner, and Wil-\\nmot. Its height, as given in Prof. Hitchcock s\\nGeology of New Hampshire, is 2,943 feet above\\ntide-water. It is a massive, lonely peak, standing in\\nstately grandeur, hard by busy towns and great lines\\nof railway. The view from its summit is extended\\nand picturesque, as may be imagined, by those\\nwho have had no opportunity of personal observa-\\ntion, from the following careful list of prominent\\npeaks to be seen from its summit In Hillsborough\\ncounty, Pack IMonadnock (3,288 feet in height),\\nCrotched (2,066) in Cheshire county. Grand Mo-\\nnadnock (3,186), Pitcher (2,170) (Wachusett,\\nnear Worcester, Mass., can be seen in the clearest\\ndays) in Sullivan county, Croydon (2,789), Mel-\\nvin (2,134), Lovell s (2,487) in Merrimack coun-\\nty, Sunapee (2,638), Ragged (2,256), Stewart s\\n(1,808), McCoy s (1,590) in Grafton county,\\nMoose (2,326), Prospect (2,072), Stinson (2,707),", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "4 AS TO KEARSARGE MOUNTAIN,\\nCuba (2,927), Cardigan (3,156), Whiteface (4,007),\\nTri-pyramid (4,150), Passaconaway (4,200), Osce-\\nola (4,397), Sandwich Dome (3,999), Carrigan\\n(4,678), Lincoln (5,101), Lafayette (5,259), Cannon\\n(3,850), Twins (5,000), and Moosilauke (4,811).\\nThe Franconia Notch can be distinctly traced.\\nIn Vermont, Ascutney (3,186) is visible, and all\\nthe Green Mountain range, as far south as the\\nvicinity of Rutland Joy Peak, the finest outlined\\nmountain in Vermont, near the Canada line, west\\nof Newport Mt. Mansfield (4,360), Camel s\\nHump (4,188), and Killington Peak (3,675), near\\nRutland. These are the chief heights.\\nIn Coos county, Washington, Adams, and Jeffer-\\nson are easily distinguished. Nearly all the prin\\ncipal peaks west of the Saco and south of the Am-\\nmonoosuc rivers are visible and, beside the Mount\\nWashington range, may be seen, in Carroll county,\\nDoublehead (3,120), Pequawket (3,251), Chocorua\\n(3,540), Ossipee (2,361), Red Hill (2,033), Cropple\\nCrown (2,100), Mote (3,200), and others.\\nPortions of Winnipiseogee, Sunapee, and New-\\nfound lakes, besides fifteen or twenty ponds, and\\neighteen villages or cities, are within sight, while\\nthe course of Aierrimack river can be traced as far\\nsouth as Hooksett.\\nKearsarge is not like a beggar, either in history\\nor in lighter literature. Its rugged yet graceful out-\\nlines are associated with the witchery of the Ind-", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "And the corvette. 5\\nIan legend, the story of the hunters camp, and the\\nprosaic pages of colonial chronicle. When Passa-\\nconaway, the great sacliem of the Merrimack valley,\\nsummoned his friends and liegemen to the wedding\\nof his daughter, as Whittier relates in the Bridal\\nof Penacook/ they brought to the nuptial feast,\\nSteaks of the brown bear, fat and large,\\nFrom the rocky slopes of the Kearsarge.\\nIt appears that there were in New England few\\nbetter dwelling-places for the Indian than this\\nregion. Tiiere were fish for his net and spear,\\ngame for his snare and arrow, and meadows for\\nthe rude culture of maize and these, also, were\\nthe attractions which brouglit hither the white\\nfrontiersman to push away with axe and plow the\\nred owners of the soil.\\nDuring tlie dread years of French and Indian\\nwarfare against New England settlers, a full share\\nof death and captivity was brought to the people\\naround Kearsarge. The old mountain saw the\\nsmoke of the lodges of those dusky warriors who\\nhad the temerity to attempt to carry Hannah Dus-\\nton, the wife of a frontier clergyman, into northern\\ncaptivity, as well as that of which Daniel Webster\\nsaid, when it curled over the frozen hills, there\\nwas no similar evidence of a white man s habita-\\ntion between it and the settlements on the rivers\\nof Canada.", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "6 AS TO KEARSARGE MOUNTAIN,\\nThen came the Revohitionary war, and within\\nits sight Ebenezer Webster and Gordon Hutchlns\\nand John Stark mustered the men who marched\\nto Bennington, and made the victory at Saratoga\\npossible.\\nIn still later years; along the ancient neighboring\\nhighways, poured the traffic of northern New\\nHampshire, Vermont, and Canada. To crop the\\nsweet grasses of the mountain pastures, the cattle\\nof Nevvbiu-y, Amesbury, and other Massachusetts\\ntowns were annually driven. And here again the\\ncaptivating pen of the loved poet of New England\\nfinds inspiration. In The Drovers he says,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2W ifr 7^ f^\\nDay after day our way has been\\nO er many a hill and hollow;\\nBy lake and stream, by wood and glen,\\nOur stately drove we follow\\nThrough dust-clouds, rising thick and dun,\\nAs smoke of battle o er us,\\nTheir white horns glisten in the sun,\\nLike plumes and crests before us.\\nWe see them slowly climb the hill,\\nAs slow behind it sinking;\\nOr thronging close, from road-side rill.\\nOr sunny lakelet, drinking\\nNow crowding in the narrow road\\nIn thick and struggling masses.\\nThey glare upon the teamster s load,\\nOr rattling coach that passes.", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "AND THE CORVETTE.\\nThe night is falling, comrades mine\\nOur footsore beasts are weary,\\nAnd through yon elms the tavern sign\\nLooks out upon us cheery\\nTo-morrow, eastward with our charge\\nWe ll go to meet the dawning,\\nEre yet the pines of Kearsarge\\nHave seen the sun of morning.\\nThe region could spare much that belongs to it\\nin story, and still much would remain but the\\npeople who dwell around the mountain have ob-\\nserved for four years a persistent attempt to filch\\nits name and historic renown, and have kept silence\\nas long as silence is proper. This attempt at his-\\ntorical theft is stated, in the language of its would-\\nbe perpetrator, in Johnson s Cyclopaedia, in the\\nfollowing words\\nKearsarge Mount, a conspicuous mountain in\\nCarroll Co., N. H. On the suggestion of the wife\\nof the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, a daughter\\nof Levi Woodbury, of New Hampshire, the Sec-\\nretary, in 1 86 1, named the vessel which sunk the\\nAlabama in 1S64 after this mountain. Another\\none of the same name in Merrimack Co., N. H.,\\nformerly called Kya-Sarga, has been erroneously\\nclaimed for this honor.\\nG. V. FOX.\\nThis attempt to garble minor history is said to\\nhave its origin in two purposes, one, to gratify a\\npersonal pique at AdmiralWinslow, who will be", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "Q AS TO KEARSARGE MOUNTAIN,\\nhereafter mentioned and the other, to endeavor to\\nconnect the family of Levi Woodbury with the\\nexpression of just one sentiment akin to loyalty\\nduring the years of the Rebellion. Whatever the\\npurpose, it has been followed with audacity and\\nperseverance, and time and money have been ex-\\npended in its behalf. It is therefore expedient to\\nset forth in opposition thereto the following collec-\\ntion of facts and opinions, incomplete though it be.\\nAt the outset the compiler may be permitted to\\nsay, that neither Secretary Welles nor Mr. Fox,\\nformerly of the Navy Department, ever lost any\\npersonal fame, however petty, by reason of not\\nclaiming it. For example, Mr. Welles, in the let-\\nter referred to on page 24, says,\\nAt the commencement of our civil war, when\\nwe were building a number of vessels, it seemed\\na favorable opportunity to give our naval vessels\\nAmerican names, instead of imitating the English,\\nand copying from their Naval Register.\\nThis is a claim, by implication, that, prior to the\\nwar and his secretaryship, our naval vessels had\\nno American names. The truth is, that in the\\nNaval Register for 1S60 are, among others, the\\nfollowing: Ohio, Delaware, Alabama, Potomac,\\nSaratoga, Niagara, Roanoke, Colorado, Merrimack,\\nMinnesota, Susquehanna, Powhatan, Saranac, Iro-\\nquois, Wyandotte, Dacotah, and Pocahontas; and,\\nin fact, more than half the names of vessels then in", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "And the corvette. 9\\nthe navy were of distinctive American origin.\\nThe busiest vessel at the outbreak of the Rebellion\\nwas the Pawnee.\\nMr. Welles, in the letter above referred to, dated\\nSept. 27, 1875, recites the pretensions of Mr. Fox\\nin regard to the name of the corvette Kearsarge,\\nand half favors them but he says, with obvious\\ntruthfulness, although after the lapse of fourteen\\nyears I may not recollect them. He wrote to like\\npurport in this respect at other times, but it is ap-\\nparent that he did so at the solicitation of Mr. Fox,\\nand that he depended upon the presumed knowl-\\nedge and memory of the latter person, who, on or\\nabout Sept. 17, 1S75, paid the venerable ex-secre-\\ntary a visit, for the purpose of coloring his recol-\\nlections on this subject. It is, therefore, fair to\\nsay, that this old sailor s yarn in behalf of tlie\\nCarroll county mountain rests on the testimony of\\nMr. Fox alone and it can be determined how much\\nreliance to place on his memory if, indeed, it be a\\nmatter of memory in affairs of this nature, when\\nit is known that in some studied remarks to the\\ncity council of Boston, Jan. iS, 1S75, in an unsuc-\\ncessful attempt to attach the name of Farragut to\\na public square, he declared the name of the great\\nAdmiral to have been Loyal Farragut, when all\\nthe world, except himself, knows it to have been\\nDavid Glascoe Farragut. and that Loyal Farragut\\nis a son of the Admiral.", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "to AS TO KEARSARGE MOUNTAIN,\\nMr. Fox s stories seem to be of that kind usually\\ntold to the marines.\\nLet us glance at history and topography for some\\nmention of Kearsarge mountain.\\nOn Gardner s map of a survey of Merrimack\\nriver, ordered by the General Court of Massachu-\\nsetts in 1638, and made by Nathaniel Woodward\\nin the spring of 1639,* only nineteen years after the\\nlanding of the pilgrims, Kearsarge is shown in its\\ncorrect position, and is called Carasaga. The\\noriginal of this map, attested by John Gardner s\\nautograph, was discovered in 1876, in the archives\\nof the Essex (Mass.) County Commissioners, by\\nGeo. E. Emery, Esq., of Lynn. It has since been\\nphotographed. In Woodward s surveying party\\nwere two Natick Indians, and Carasarga is thought\\nto mean, in the dialect of that race. Notch-pointed\\nMou7itain of Pines. This is believed to be the\\nmeaning of the name in its successive forms, the\\ndifterences springing from different Indian dialects.\\nUntil 179S Kearsarge was covered with a dense\\ngrowth of pine and spruce, but in August of that\\nyear a great fire swept over the mountain, the\\nsummit of which has a notched appearance from\\npoints in the upper Merrimack valley, and as far\\nnorth as East Andover. Woodward s surveying\\nparty appear to have ascended Kearsarge, because\\nSome authorities say this map was made in 1652.", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "And the corvette. it\\nLake Winnipiseogee is shown on the map as it\\nappears from the summit of that mountain.\\nIn a journal of a scouting party, commanded\\nby Samuel Willard, of Lancaster, Mass., in July,\\n1725, the mountain was seen and spoken of as\\nCu-sh-gee.\\nOn a map of New Hampshire, b}^ Joseph\\nBlanchard and Samuel Langdon afterward Pres-\\nident of Harvard college published in 1761, the\\nsame mountain is called Kya-sa-ge, and no name\\ngiven to the mountain in Carroll county.\\nOn a map of a survey made by Samuel Hol-\\nland, Esq., the King s surveyor of Northern New\\nHampshire, 1773-4, and published 1784, the same\\nmountain is accurately laid down and called Kyar\\nSarga, by Indians, Cowissewaschook. On this\\nmap the mountain in Carroll county is distinctly\\nmarked, but no name given to it.\\nIn June, 1793, the legislature of New Hamp-\\nshire passed an act to set oti sundry lots of land\\nfrom a place called Kear Sarge Gore, in the county\\nof Hillsborough (since within Merrimack county),\\nand to annex the same, with the inhabitants there-\\non, to New London, in said county. This act\\nconclusively proves that the said mountain was\\nrecognized and publicly known at that time by\\nthe name of Kearsarge.\\nOn all maps, geographical surveys, histories,\\nand registers of New Ilampshire since that time,\\nthe said mountain has been described or referred\\nto, invariably, as in the same localit} bearing the\\nsame name, the variations in spelling being of no\\naccount.", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "12 As TO KEARSARGE MOUNTAIN,\\nRev. Dr. Bouton, the State Historian, in a com-\\nmunication to the Concord (N. H.) Statesman^ of\\nAug. 3, 1S76, recites most of the above facts (the\\nquoted words being his ow^n), decides that the true\\nname of the Carroll county mountain is Pigwacket,\\nand concludes as follow^s\\nOn the settlement of the Pigwacket country,\\nby people from towns in the immediate vicinity of\\nthe true, old, and venerable mountain in Merrimack\\ncounty, by a natural law of association they trans-\\nferred and appropriated tlie name, which they held\\nin honor, to the most conspicuous one of the hills\\nin the region of their new residence. Rising be-\\nfore them in grandeur and beauty, somewhat like\\ntheir own \u00e2\u0080\u00a2peerless Kearsarge, they gave to this\\neminence the same cherished name.* Hence, when\\nDr. Belknap published his histor} of New Hamp-\\nshire, with his new map, he gave it the local name\\nwhich the people living there had begun to call it.\\nBy so lending his authority to a local partiality, he\\nconfused both our geography and history for, on\\nthe same map in which he introduced this new\\nname to one of the Pigwacket hills, he had\\nalready marked, in its proper locality and with its\\ntime-honored name, the true and onl}- Kearsarge\\nof New Hampshire. Hence it was both proper\\nand important that Mr. Carrigain, in his new map,\\nSingularly enough, the name of Kearsarge has been\\ncarried to California, and given to two peaks in that\\nstate, one, not far from the Nevada line where it crosses\\nthe 36th parallel the other, near the town of Independ-\\nence.", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "AND THE CORVETTE. 1 3\\npublished by authority of the legislature, should give\\nthe mountain in Carroll county its just and appro-\\npriate name, Pigwacket, a name, I may add, of\\ngreat historic significance and honor. It commem-\\norates the fact that that section of country was\\nonce the head-quarters of a powerful Indian tribe,\\nand still more, the great fight in 1735, in which\\nthe heroic and honored Capt. Lovewell fell, as did\\nalso Paugus, the bold Sagamore of the Pequakett\\ntribe. That fight opened that fertile country to\\na prosperous civilization.\\nWe need only add, that the rightful claim of\\nthe name Kearsarge to the mountain in Merrimack\\ncounty being established by priority of unbroken\\nusage for more than three-score years, other ques-\\ntions incidental thereto may easily be settled. The\\nhonor of the name, for example, given to our vic-\\ntorious ship of war, the Kearsarge, that sunk the\\nAlabama, even though claimed by mistake for the\\nmountain in Carroll county, would seem rightfully\\nto belong to the ancient and only true mountain of\\nthat name in New Hampshire. So, also, should it\\nbe deemed wise and expedient to clear our moim-\\ntain geography of duplicate names so as to accord\\nwith the records of history, it would be most suit-\\nable to restore to that conspicuous eminence the\\nname given it on Carrigain s map, alike honora-\\nble to the ancient name and to the heroic deeds\\nfor which that section of the country will ever be\\ncelebrated.\\nThe Committee on Towns and Parishes of the\\nNew Hampshire Legislature had the subject under\\nconsideration in 1876, and reported as follows:", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "14 AS TO KEARSARGE MOUNTAIN,\\nFrom the evitlence submitted, it appears that\\nthere are two mountains in New Hampshire now\\nknown by the name of Kearsarge, one in Merri-\\nmack, and the other in Carroll county, and the or-\\nthography of the word, like that of others derived\\nfrom the Indians, has undergone various changes.\\nOn the elaborate English map by Blanchard and\\nLangdon, from surveys made in 1761, and pub-\\nlished in 176S, the name Kyasage is given to the\\nmountain in Merrimack county. The Holland\\nmap of 17S4 gives the name of Kyar-Sarga to the\\nmountain in Merrimack county, and no name to\\nthat in Carroll county and your committee are\\nunanimously of the opinion that the mountain in\\nMerrimack county is justly entitled to the name of\\nKearsarge.\\nGEO. C. GILMORE,\\nFor the Committee.\\nIn regard to the Carroll county mountain, Dr.\\nBouton says\\nIt should be understood that the entire section\\nof coimtry where that mountain is located, has,\\nfrom its first discovery by white men, been known\\nand called by the name of the Figwacket country\\nso called from a tribe of Indians, Pequaketts, that\\nlived on the rich meadows along the Saco river,\\nhaving the adjacent hill country for hunting-\\ngrounds. It was so called in 1642, when the first\\nvisit was made by Darby Field, and soon after by\\nothers, to the White Hills. In the Figwacket coun-\\ntry the great fight took place, May, 1725, between\\nthe company commanded by Capt. John LoveweU", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "AND THE CORVETTE. 1 5\\nand the Pequakett Indians under Paugus. In\\nevery period since, at least till within a few years,\\nin historical and geographical accounts of that\\ncountry, including Fryeburg, Brownfield, Conway,\\nand Chatham, the region has always been spoken\\nof under the same name. Accordingly we tind,\\nI. That in the journal of Capt. Samuel Wil-\\nlard, before referred to, he says he saw Pigwack-\\nett in a north-eastern direction from the Grand\\nMonadnock.*\\n2. In 1 741, Walter Bryant, Esq., surveyed the\\neastern line of New Hampshire, and went as far\\nas Pigwaket, where he saw the Pigwaket plain\\nor intervale land, as also Pigwaket river.\\n3. On a map by Mitchell and Hazzen, survey-\\nors of New Hampshire, 1750, the Pigwakket\\nhills are laid down in a group in the north part of\\nthe Pigwacket country.\\n4. Settlements were commenced in that region\\nabout 1 765-1 770. When a grant was made of the\\ntownship of Conway, Sept. 30, 1765, of six miles\\nsquare, it was described as at a place called Pig-\\nwacket. The settlements at Conway, Chatham,\\nand Fryeburg were made chiefly by emigrants from\\nConcord, Boscawen, Salisbury, and Andover\\npersons who had always lived in sight and under\\nthe shadow of the Kearsarge mountain in Merri-\\nmack count}^\\nIn a memorial of committees of inhabitants\\nof Conway, Fryeburg, and Brownfield, dated July\\nThe Appalachian Mountain Club has demonstrated the\\npossibility of this by two unsuccessful attempts, said to\\nhave been made at the expense of Mr. Fox, to prove the\\ncontrary.", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "1 6 AS TO KEARSARGE MOUNTAIN,\\n8, 1776, presented to the General Court of New\\nHampshire, asking for aid and protection against\\nthe Indians, they say, The said new plantations\\nconsist of about one hmidred and thirty families,\\nsituated at a place called Pigwacket, upon Saco\\nriver.\\n6. Several years after the settlement of Con-\\nway and Fryeburg was begun, the Rev. Timothy\\nWalker, of Concord, made an annual visit thither,\\nto preach and administer ordinances to families of\\nhis former charge, and always in his journal called\\nthe region Pigwacket.\\nIn a letter dated Sept. 25, 1875, Dr. Bouton\\nsays,\\nThe true and only mountain in New Hamp-\\nshire which can rightfully claim the name of Kear-\\nsarge, is that in our county of Merrimack.\\nThe Atlantic JSIonthly^ for July, 1S78, says,\\nThe Conway Kearsarge, so often sung by Bos-\\nton bards and climbed by Boston boots, was really\\nchristened after the Merrimack county Kearsarge,\\nboth morally and chronologically. The towns ad-\\njoining and including the southern mountain (which\\nis situated almost exactly in the geographical centre\\nof New Hampshire), Warner, Boscawen, Ando-\\nver, and New London, were nearly all settled in\\nthe earlier half of the last century, while the Con-\\nway tract was first occupied late in the seventeen\\nhundreds by emigrants from the Merrimack coun-\\nty region. They must have named the northern", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "AND THE CORVETTE. 1 7\\nmountain for the southern one, on account of a re-\\nsemblance of outline, which is remote enough from\\nsome points of view, but rather striking from\\nothers.\\nCitations similar to the foregoing might be mul-\\ntiplied, and maps, gazetteers, and other works\\nquoted, but it is believed that if the careful re-\\nsearch of a painstaking historian can settle any-\\nthing, the quotations from Dr. Bouton are suffi-\\ncient to establish the fact that the mountain in Mer-\\nrimack county is the noted Kearsarge.\\nAs to the name of the corvette, a little research\\nhas discovered the following\\nCONTEMPORARY NEWSPAPER MENTION.\\nDispatches from Washington give the names of\\nthe new sloops of war the Kearsarge, Ossipee,\\nHousatonic, Wachusett, Adirondack, Juniata, and\\nTuscarora. Kearsarge is a well known mountain\\nin Merrimack county, New Hampshire, about\\ntwenty miles north-west of Concord. There is\\nanother mountain north of Lake Winnipiseogee\\nwhich modern tourists have confounded with the\\ntrue one. Boston yournal^ yunc iS6i.\\nOf the new sloops of war built at Portsmouth,\\none will be named Ossipee, and the other Kear-\\nsarge. These are Indian words, but, imlike many\\nof that dialect, pass easily over the tongue. Kear-\\nsarge was suggested to the naval department by\\n2", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "1 8 AS TO KEARSARGE MOUNTAIN,\\none of the publishers of this paper. He wrote that,\\nas the Merrimack was burned at Norfolk, it would\\nbe gratifying to New Hampshire folks to be again\\nremembered in this matter of names of national ves-\\nsels, and, in presenting Kearsarge, said it was an\\nisolated and imposing eminence in the centre of the\\nstate, in the midst of a loyal people, and that young\\nLadd, who fell at Baltimore, crying All hail to\\nthe stars and stripes, was buried almost within its\\nshadow, at Alexandria. Asa JMcFai land^ in New\\nHampshire Statesman^ ytine 8, 1861.\\nKearsarge mountain, from which Capt. Wins-\\nlow s vessel receives its immortal name, is the\\nhighest mountain in the county of Merrimack,\\nNew Hampshire. Its summit is a mass of granite,\\npresenting an irregular and broken surface. The\\nprospect from the mountain is very wide and beau-\\ntiful. Army and Navy yournal^ 1864.\\nIt was a happy inspiration that gave the name of\\nKearsarge to one of the most beautiful and fortu-\\nnate of our ships of war. The appropriateness of\\nthe name was from the first apparent to those who,\\nlike the writer, have been familiar with the old\\nmountain from earliest recollection. It is, as late-\\nly stated, situated very near the centre of the old\\nGranite state, and stands there high above the\\nmany surroimding hills, in a country where all is\\nhill and valley, for all the world as if it were the\\ngreat heart of that hard old state. It is in the towns\\nof Salisbury, Sutton, Andover, Wilmot, New Lon-\\ndon, and Warner. The moimtain is great as well\\nas hard. It is rich in association, tradition, and\\nstor}!^, and rich, above all, in the character of the", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "AND THE CORVETTE. I 9\\npopulation which lives and grows about and upon\\nthe sides of this, to me, the most beautiful of all the\\nmountains of my native state. Like the land they\\ninhabit, though kind, honest, generous, even patri-\\notic, they are in one sense very hard they are a\\nrace not easily conquered. I know them well, and\\nknow this is true. And when Kearsarge was first\\nannounced as the name of the new ship, it seemed\\nlike an appropriate recognition of and compliment\\nto this last quality of its hardy sons. New York\\nEvening Post, ynly 14, 1S64.\\nThe sinking of the Alabama by the Kearsarge\\nhas given great joy to the soldiers. They are as\\nmuch gratified as if they had won a victory. The\\nmen of the Kearsarge were mainly from New\\nHampshire. Their ship was built there, and bears\\nthe name of the grand old mountain beneath the\\nshadow of which Daniel Webster passed his child-\\nhood. The name was selected for the ship by one\\nof the publishers of the New Hampshire States-\\nman. The tourist passing through the Granite\\nstate will look with increased pleasure upon the\\nmountain, whose name, bestowed upon a national\\nvessel, will be prominent in the history of the na-\\ntion. Petersburg Va.) correspondence to Bos-\\nton yonrnai^ y^ ^y ^^1 1864.\\nThe purport of the following letter was printed\\nin the Boston Transcript ^oi^ww^ 24, 1878. Some\\nsentences omitted then have been restored, and\\nothers added but for convenience sake the origi-\\nnal form is preserved\\nTo the Editor of the Transcript When you", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "20 AS TO KEARSARGE MOUNTAIN,\\nopen this communication you will say, Fudge\\nsomething more about Kearsarge You will be\\nright. The topic may be too small rightfully, to\\nprovoke so much controversy, but as with all the\\nrivers of ink which have been shed lately on the\\nsubject only half the truth is told, and as your cor-\\nrespondent F., in his letter published Thursday,\\nhas lugged me into the discussion, I will write\\nsuch facts as are within my knowledge with tol-\\nerable brevity, and as impersonally as the narrative\\nwill permit. I know how tedious such contro-\\nversies are to the general reader, and have never\\nheretofore written a word on this subject for publi-\\ncation therefore it cannot be said that I have been\\na common brawler in the dispute.\\nHaving had from boyhood a high degree of ad-\\nmiration for the Kearsarge of Merrimack county, I\\noften wondered why its name had not been given\\nto some ship. When the war of the Rebellion\\nbroke out, with a consequent increase of the navy,\\nit appeared that a fit time had come. On May 31,\\nor June i, 1861, I wrote a letter to the assistant\\nsecretary of the navy (G. V. Fox), suggesting that\\none of the sloops of war then ordered to be built\\nat Portsmouth be called Kearsai-ge. This letter\\nstated the location of the mountain distinctly (near\\nthe centre of the state) that it was a bold, isolated\\neminence that its euphonious name had never\\nbeen given to a ship that the soldier of the 6th\\nMassachusetts regiment, who was reported to have\\nexclaimed with his dying breath, as he fell in Bal-\\ntimore, All hail to the stars and sti ipesT was\\nthen buried in its shadow that the adoption of\\nThis incident was commemorated in verse by Geo.", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "AXD THE CORVETTE. 21\\nthe name would gratify the loyal people of the\\nvicinity, who regretted that the frigate Merrimack\\nhad fallen into rebel hands and closed by asking\\nthe assistant secretary, if the suggestion met with\\nhis own favor, to bring it to the notice of the sec-\\nretary. The assistant secretary once stated to me\\nthat he remembered receiving and carrying to his\\nresidence that letter. It is not now, if it ever was,\\nin the files of the department. It would probably\\nhave been more suitable, and the event has proved\\nthat it would have been wiser, to have addressetl\\nthe letter to the secretary of the navy himself. It\\nwas written at the office of the New Hampshire\\nStatesman^ a publication in which I was then con-\\ncerned, and is said to be now stowed away\\namong papers in Lowell, Mass., from which re-\\ntirement there is probably no reason to hope that\\nit will be called.\\nIt will be noticed that the foregoing statement in\\nregard to the mountain would not apply in any re-\\nspect to the Pequawket-Kiarsarge of Carroll county.\\nIf anything more had been needed to establish\\nthe propriety of otiering the name, it might have\\nbeen found in the fact that on a little territory near\\nthe foot of the eastern slope of Kearsarge, Daniel\\nT. Bourne, of New York. The soldier, Luther C. Ladd,\\nwas first buried at Alexandria, his birthplace, afterward\\nat Lowell, where the commonwealth of Massachusetts\\nand the city of Lowell dedicated a handsome monument\\nto the memory of his dead comrade and himself. It was\\nof these men that Gov. Andrew telegraphed to the mayor\\nof Baltimore,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 I pray you to cause the bodies of our\\nMassachusetts soldiers, dead in Baltimore, to be immedi-\\nately laid out, preserved in ice, and tenderly sent to me.\\nAll expenses will be paid by this commonwealth.", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "22 AS TO KEARSARGiS MOUNTAIN,\\nWebster, John A. Dix, and William Pitt Fessen-\\nden were born.\\nThe Kearsarge happened to become famous by\\nsinking the Alabama long ago (on June 19, 1864).\\nAfter that event a large hotel was built on the side\\nof the Merrimack county mountain, and named, in\\nhonor of the ship s captain, the Winslow House.\\nThat hotel was destroyed by fire in 1S67, and re-\\nbuilt on a larger plan. Admiral Winslow was\\ngiven a reception in the first house, and was pres-\\nent at the opening of the second (Aug. 12, 1868),\\nwhen he gave the owner a stand of colors and a\\npicture of the battle. Notable people were there\\non those occasions, such as the governor of the\\nstate, the ex-solicitor of the navy department and\\nassistant secretary of the U. S. treasury, the ser-\\ngeant-at-arms of the U. S. house of representatives,\\nPaymaster J. A. Smith of the Kearsarge, our ex-\\nminister to Switzerland, army officers, and promi-\\nnent citizens, who took part in the festivities and\\naddresses of congratulation.\\nThese things were not done in a corner they\\nwere published far and wide, and, so far as I know,\\nno one challenged the existing general belief that\\nthe corvette was named for that mountain. In\\nprocess of time Admiral Winslow died, and a\\nboulder was taken from the side of that Kearsarge\\nto serve as his monument; but just here the con-\\ntroversy as to the origin of the ship s name was be-\\ngun, and, as part of the scheme, an attempt was\\nmade to worry the family of the admiral into dis-\\nuse of the boulder. This impertinence failed of its\\npurpose, and the boulder stands on Orange path.\\nForest Hill Cemetery, Boston, supporting a bronze\\ntablet with the following inscription", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "AND THE CORVETTE. 2^\\nRear Admiral\\nJohn Ancrum Winslow,\\nU. S. Navy,\\nBorn in Wilmington, N. C,\\nNov. 19, 1811,\\nDied in Boston, Mass.,\\nSept. 29, 1873.\\nHe conducted the memorable\\nSea fight in command of\\nU. S. S. Kearsarge,\\nWhen she sunk the Alabama in the\\nEnglish Channel, June 19, 1864.\\nThis boulder from\\nKearsarge Mountain, Merrimack county, N. H.,\\nIs the gift\\nOf citi/iens of Warner, N. H.,and is erected\\nto his memory by his wife and\\nsurviving children.\\nI never heard of any dispute about the origin of\\nthe corvette s name until July, 1875, fourteen years\\nafter she was built, and eleven years after she sunk\\nthe Alabama, when I received a note from your\\ncorrespondent F., asking me to inform him\\nabout the naming of the Kearsarge and I stated to\\nhim the facts narrated in the second paragraph of\\nthis letter. He replied that I was in error in sup-\\nposing my letter furnished the earliest suggestion\\nof the name that it had been proposed verbally by\\na member of his own family that he did not at\\nthat time know there were two mountains in New\\nHampshire bearing names so nearly alike and\\nthat he did not ascertain this fact until after the\\nsinking of the Alabama, when he obtained the in-\\nformation from Senator James \\\\V. Grimes, of Iowa,\\na native of New Hampshire.", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "24 As TO KEARSARGE MOUXTAIX,\\n(It is to be hoped he may never know that there\\nare two Monadnocks in New England, or that the\\nrivers Soucook and Suncook both flow in the town\\nof Pembroke, N. H.)\\nA letter from J. C. Howell, acting secretary of\\nthe navy, Sept. 28, 1S75, says, The files and\\nrecords of the department have been examined, but\\nthe department is unable to inform you how the\\nname came to be selected. This is quoted here,\\nbecause it is impossible to say what future altera-\\ntions a ruthless hand, disposed to distort historical\\nfacts, may not be able to eft ect in the records of the\\ndepartment.\\nThe name which the records of the navy show\\nto have been first given to the corvette was Kear-\\nsage, omitting the final r but a few days later,\\non June 15, 1S61, the correct name of Kearsarge\\nwas applied to her. Secretary Welles, in a letter\\nwdiich is before me, dated Sept. 27, 1875, says he\\nthought Keai sage was right, but that Secretary\\nChase corrected his orthography and pronuncia-\\ntion, and after a dispute convinced him that Kear-\\nsarge was right. Mr. Welles s exact language is\\nas follows\\nI first directed that the corvette should be\\ncalled Kearsage but Mr. Chase, a New Hamp-\\nshire man, corrected my pronunciation and orthog-\\nraphy. We had, I recollect, a little dispute, and\\nthat I quoted Gov. Hill, but Mr. Chase convinced\\nme he was correct.\\nThe corvette appears to me to have been named\\nwhen she received the precise designation which\\nshe defiantly carried through storm and battle. It", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "And tiik corvetti^. 25\\nwill be well to remember here tliat Mr. Chase was\\na native of Cornish, a New Hampshire town\\nwhich has the Kearsarge of Merrimack county in\\nview.\\nMr. Welles says, quoted Gov. Hill. This is\\nfurther good evidence that it was the mountain in\\nMerrimack county for which he named the cor-\\nvette. Gov. Hill having been a citizen of Concord,\\na large land-owner on the side of that mountain,\\nand enthusiastic with word and pen in regard to it.\\nIn the Fa7-mers Monthly Visitor^ conducted by\\nIsaac Hill, Vol. i, No. 5, printed at Concord, May\\n15, 1S39, two-page description of Kearsarge,\\nfrom his own pen, illustrated with a view of the\\nmountain from Putney s hill in Hopkinton, a no-\\nticeable piece of enterprise for those times. He\\nwrote the name as Kearsarge, and not as Mr.\\nWelles understood it.\\nIt is also a fact, that at the time the corvette\\nwas named the Carroll county mountain was gen-\\nerally known as Kiarsarge, a spelling ditTerent\\nfrom the other. This was the name in common\\nuse at North Conway (although Kiarsarge was\\nsometimes changed to Pequawket), as I can testify\\nfrom personal knowledge, having been a somewhat\\nfrequent visitor to that place before it became a\\nnoted summer resort. That was the na^me on the\\nvillage guideboard. It was the name borne on the\\nsign of Mr. Thompson s hotel. It was the name\\nused by the oldest and best informed townspeople.\\nResidents there have adopted the other spelling\\nsince the naval battle, and since this controversy\\nbegan, a concession which has great significance,\\nespecially since it appears that the change has been\\nmade at the entreaty of your correspondent F.", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "26 As TO KEARSARGE MOUNTAI\\\\%\\nNine tenths of all that has within three years\\nbeen written on the other side of this subject,\\nsuch as communications to newspapers, an article\\nin Johnson s Cyclopsedia, essays for club meetings,\\na pamphlet, correspondence with the coast survey\\nand with historical societies, has been from the\\npen of your correspondent F. So much writing,\\nwith references in one series of these productions\\nto those of another, might, in the absence of knowl-\\nedge of this fact, be mistaken for cumulative testi-\\nmony. In these contributions to literature, what-\\never else is said or left unsaid, one is reasonably\\nsure to find it declared of Pequawket-Kiarsarge,\\nwith an aiV of portentous wisdom, that it looks\\ndown on the beautiful valley of North Conway.\\nIt has never seemed to most people, that the\\npoint as to whence the suggestion of the name\\ncame was of very great public consequence. If it\\nbe important to know for which of the mountains\\nthe corvette was named, it certainly ought to be\\nconsidered which mountain bore precisely that\\nname, and had borne it and no other almost a cen-\\ntury, at the time the corvette was built, and which\\none Secretary Chase probably had in mind when\\nhe, after a dispute, caused the correct name to\\nbe adopted.\\nThe fact is beyond all controversy, that at the\\ndate when the corvette was named, the Merrimack\\ncounty mountain was always called Kearsarge,\\nwhile the Carroll county mountain was at the same\\ntime called, in its immediate vicinity, indifferently\\nPequawket, or Kiarsarge,* by careful and studi-\\nHistory of the White Mountains, by Rev. Mr.\\nWilley, a native of the White Mountain region, published", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "AXD THE CORVETTE. ^7\\noiis persons generally Pequawket, and seldom by\\nanybody called Kearsarge. I presume tbat in re-\\nspect to this part of the question the professors of\\nDartmouth college may be considered as good au-\\nthority, at least, as any person who did not know,\\nuntil 1S64, that there were two mountains in New\\nHampshire bearing similar names (and could not\\nspell the name of either correctly) and the raised\\nat North Conway in 1870, p. 205 Standing upon the\\nsummit of Pequawket mountain, one beholds/- c.\\nStarr King s White Hills Their Legends, Land-\\nscape, AND Poetry, published in i860, pp. 12, 14, and\\n16; also, p. 150 The true Indian name of this charm-\\ning pyramid is Pequawket.\\nNew Hampshire as It Is, by E. A. Charlton and Geo.\\nTicknor, published at Claremont in 1855, p. 469 Kear-\\nsarge mountain is a conspicuous elevation in Warner;^ p.\\n470, Pequawket mountain is situated in Bartlett.\\nHarper s Statistical Gazetteer of the World,\\nHarper Bros., New York, 1855 Kearsarge mountain,\\nSalisbury, Merrimack county, N. H.\\nPronouncing Gazetteer of the World, J. B. Lip-\\npincott Co., Philadelphia, 1855 Kearsarge (Keer-\\nsarj) mountain in Merrimack county. New Hampshire.\\n[Neither of the last two works makes any mention of Pe-\\nquawket-Kiarsarge. Either was accessible to the navy\\nand treasury departments when Mr. Welles and Mr.\\nChase had their dispute.]\\nDaniel Webster s Letter to R. M. Blatchford, dat-\\ned at Franklin, May 3, 1846 West from the river, nine\\nmiles off, is the Kearsarge mountain.\\nThe White Mountain Guide Book, Concord, E. C.\\nEastman, edition of 1872, and all subsequent editions, p.\\n190 At Potter Place maybe seen, on the left of the", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "2B As TO KEARSARGE MOUNT AIX,\\nmap of the state, prepared under their direction,\\nnow in the state-house at Concord, calls the Merri-\\nmack county mountain Kearsarge, and the Carroll\\ncounty mountain Pequawket.\\nWhether the proposal in ni}- original letter to the\\nassistant secretary met with so much favor as to be\\nbrought to the attention of the secretar}^ of the navy\\nas that of another person, is a query which pre-\\nsents itself, but cannot be considered in this com-\\nmunication. My conclusion is, that either with or\\nwithout the aid of that letter, either intentionally or\\nunintentionally, the name of the mountain in Mer-\\nrimack CQunty was, and ought to have been, given\\nto the corvette and it can never be obliterated.\\ntrack, Kearsarge. This is the mountain for which the\\nsteamer was named that was immortalized by the destruc-\\ntion of the Alabama. On p. 165, speaking of North\\nConway Mt. Pequawket, or Kiarsarge, is about three\\nmiles from the village.\\nColton\\\\s General Atlas of the World (editions of\\n1871, 1877, and 1878, and others). On the map of New\\nHampshire, Kearsarge will be found where it belongs,\\nand the Carroll county mountain is called Pigwacket.\\nThe Geology of New Hampshire, by Prof. C. H.\\nHitchcock, State Geologist, with J. H. Huntington and\\nothers, assistants, published by authority of the state, at\\nConcord, in 1874, i three royal octavo volumes, invariably\\ncalls the Merrimack county mountain Kearsarge, and the\\nCarroll county mountain Pequawket.\\n[These are high authorities. Others might be cited to\\nan indefinite extent, but the writer would not underrate\\nthe intelligence of readers who know that any attempt to\\nprove that the mountain in Menimack county was not,\\nand that the Carroll county mountain was, always known\\nas Kearsarge, in the year 1861 and contiguous years, has\\nno color of truth in it.]", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "AND THE CORVETTE. 39\\nIt hardly need be said that I am writing in the\\nbelief that your correspondent F., and the as-\\nsistant secretary above alluded to, are one and the\\nsame person.\\nIt is assuredly true that the corvette Kearsarge\\nwas, to a remarkable degree, a New Hampshire\\nenterprise. She was built by Portsmouth ship-\\nwrights. New Hampshire oak was in her frame.\\nAt least one third of her crew came from our gran-\\nite hills. The Piscataqua was the first water on\\nwhich she floated. Four of her officers were from\\nour state. James S. Thornton, her first lieutenant,\\nwho prepared her for battle, stringing chain cable\\nalong her sides to protect her boilers (a device he\\nlearned by service in Farragut s flag-ship at New\\nOrleans), who trained her gunners so that those of\\nHer Majesty s ship the Excellent, who served on\\nthe Alabama, were no match for them, was from\\nMerrimack, and a great grandson of Matthew\\nThornton, a signer of the Declaration of Indepen-\\ndence and it is worth mentioning here, that the\\nsame Matthew Thornton was one of the original\\ngrantees of the town of \\\\A ilmot, within which\\ntown Kearsarge mountain partially lies. John M.\\nBrowne, the surgeon, was from some town in Coos\\ncounty. VVm. II. Yeaton and Ezra Bartlett, both\\nof Stratham, were master s mates, the last named\\na great grandson of Josiah Bartlett, another signer\\nof the Declaration of Independence. Charles II.\\nDanforth, a son of Mr. Isaac Danforth, formerly of\\nthis city, was a master s mate on board of her, and\\nfired the first gun of the battle, at least from our\\nside. The gallant fellow opened a literary as well\\nas naval coinbat when he pulled the lanyard of that\\ncannon. Thornton, Browne, Bartlett, and Dan-", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "30 AS TO KEARSARGE MOUNTAIN.\\nforth, as well as Paymaster Smith, above mention\\ned, were highly commended for good conduct.\\nMark G. Ham, of Portsmouth, carpenter s mate,\\nwas named for promotion.\\nH. M F.\\nConcord, N. H., June 7-i, 1S7S.\\nP. S. The receipt of the letter mentioned in the\\nsecond paragraph of the foregoing is established by\\nthe following notes addressed to the writer of thi\\nthe first of which certainly does not give evidence\\nof having been written by a person in possession of\\nany accurate information as to the subject in dis-\\npute\\nBoston, July 10, 1875.\\nDear Sir Hon. Daniel Barnard, of Franklin,\\nN. H., informs me that he understands that you\\nhad the honor of naming the sloop-of-war Kear-\\nsarge, and it is stated to have been named from\\nthe Kearsarge in Merrimack county. Please in-\\nform as to the above, and oblige\\nYours, G. V. Fox,\\nNaval Asst. Sec y during the war.\\nBoston, July 13, 1875.\\nDear Sir Referring to our conversation Tues-\\nday have you a copy of the letter you addressed\\nto me at Washington, and the reply?\\nYours truly, G. V. Fox.\\nBoston, July 26, 1S75.\\nDear Sir: I have yours of the i6th inst., but\\nhave not yet received a copy of your letter, the\\noriginal of which is amongst my papers, I suppose,\\nbut they are stowed away at Lowell.\\nVery truly, G. V. Fox.", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "THE CORVETTE.\\nThe corvette Kearsarge was built at the navy\\nyard near Portsmouth, under the supervision of Na-\\nval Constructor Hanscom, and eight months after\\nher keel was laid went to sea (Feb. 5, 1S62) in\\ncharge of Commander C. W. Pickering. Between\\nthe above date and June, 1S64, she visited about\\nthirty foreign ports, some of them several times,\\nseeking rebel privateers and blockade runners.\\nCapt. John A. Winslow took command of her at\\nFayal, April 8, 1863. This officer, under whose\\ncontrol the Kearsarge was destined to become\\nfamous, was of the distinguished Massachusetts\\nfamily bearing that name, but born in North Caro-\\nlina, where his parents some time resided. He\\nwas appointed to the navy through the favor and\\ninfluence of Daniel Webster, Feb. i, 1827, and\\nwas in constant service until 1S43, when, as a\\nlieutenant, he joined the steam-frigate Missouri,\\nwhich, being one of the first ships of that class in\\nour navy, was sent for exhibition to the principal\\nports of the United States also to Havana and", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "32 AS TO KEARSARGE MOUNTAIN, i\\nVera Cruz, and in 1S43 Europe, with Hon. 1\\nCaleb Cashing, Minister to China. The Missouri\\nwas burned at Gibraltar, and Lieut. Winslow was\\nsent home by our Minister to Spain, with intelH-\\ngence of the disaster, returning to Spain with dis-\\npatches from our government. In December,\\n1845, he sailed for Mexico in the Cumberland, and\\nwas engaged in several boat expeditions up the\\nRix) Grande. In the attack on Tobasco he landed\\nwith a division of men, and for his gallantry on\\nthat occasion was publicly complimented by Com-\\nmodore Perry, and offered the command of any\\nvessel he might choose out of fourteen captured.\\nHe selected the Morris (named for a son of Com-\\nmodore Morris, who was shot by the side of Wins-\\nlow, in a boat, on the way to Tobasco), and sailed\\nto join the fleet at Vera Cruz, taking part in the\\nsubsequent naval operations of the war with Mex-\\nico. He was attached to the frigate St. Lawrence,\\nof the Pacific squadron, from 1851 to 1855, and\\nwas on shore duty afterwards until 1861. At the\\noutbreak of the Rebellion, making application for\\nmore active service, he was ordered to report to\\nCommodore Foote on the Mississippi river, and\\nwas engaged in the formidable task of creating the\\ngunboat flotilla. He took the first division of that\\nflotilla down the river to join Gen. Grant at Cairo,\\nand on his return was assigned to the command of\\nthe Benton. While getting this vessel off a shoal,", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "AND THE CORVETTE. 33\\na heavy chain parted under tremendous strain, and\\nhe received a wound from a flying link which dis-\\nabled him for months. He conmianded the expe-\\ndition up the White river for the relief of Gen.\\nCurtis s army and in October, 1S63, being then a\\ncaptain, and having asked for more active duty on\\nthe Atlantic coast, he was recalled from the West,\\nand in the following December sent to take com-\\nmand of the Kearsarge. Henceforward he was\\nin constant pursuit of Confederate vessels, or cruis-\\ning on the dangerous coasts of France and Eng-\\nland in the stormiest seasons, and harassed with\\nstrict observance of their neutrality laws.\\nWhile at Dover, on the English coast, June 13,\\n1864, Capt. Winslow received information that the\\nrebel privateer Alabama was at Cherbourg, for\\nwhich latter place he sailed. The Kearsarge was\\noft Cherbourg June 14, and the next day it was re-\\nported that the Alabama would soon come out and\\nengage but four days more elapsed before she ap-\\npeared, having in the meantime been put in fight-\\ning trim, the spoil of merchantmen left in a place\\nof safety, and a complement of renowed English\\ngunners received from Her Majesty s practice ship\\nthe Excellent. On Sunday morning, June 19?\\nthe commander of the Alabama having requested\\na French friend to have prayers said for him, as he\\ncould not attend church that day, took his ship\\nfrom her anchorage, and was convoyed by a French\\n3", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "34 AS TO KEARSARGE MOUNTAIN,\\nfrigate to a position three miles off shore. What\\nhappened thereafter is concisely told in Capt. Wins-\\nlow s report to the Secretary of the Navy\\nAt twenty minutes after ten the Alabama was\\ndescried coming out of the western entrance, ac-\\ncompanied by the Couronne. I had, in an inter-\\nview with the admiral at Cherbourg, assured him\\nthat in the event of an action occurring with the\\nAlabama, the position of the ship should be so far\\noff shore that no question could be advanced about\\nthe line of jurisdiction. Accordingly, to perfect\\nthis object, and with the further purpose of draw-\\ning the Alabama so far off shore that, if disabled,\\nshe could not return, I directed the ship s head sea-\\nward, and cleared for action, with the battery piv-\\noted to starboard. Having attained a point about\\nseven miles from the shore, the head of the Kear-\\nsarge was turned short around, and the ship steered\\nfor the Alabama, my purpose being to run her\\ndown, or, if circumstances did not warrant that, to\\nclose with her.\\nHardly had the Kearsarge come round before\\nthe Alabama sheered, presented her starboard bat-\\ntery, and slowed her engines. On approaching\\nher, at long range of about a mile, she opened her\\nfull broadside, the shot cutting some of our rigging,\\nand going over and alongside of us. Immediately\\nI ordered more speed, but in two minutes the Ala-\\nbama had loaded, and fired another broadside, fol-\\nlowing it with a third, without damaging us except\\nin rigging.\\nWe had now arrived within about nine hun-\\ndred yards of her, and I was apprehensive that\\nanother broadside nearly raking as it was would", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "AND THE CORVETTE. 35\\nprove disastrous. Accordingly I ordered the Kear-\\nsarge sheered, and opened on the Alabama. The\\nposition of the vessels was now broadside and broad-\\nside, but it was soon apparent that Capt. Semmes\\ndid not seek close action. I became fearful, lest,\\nafter some fighting, he would make for the shore.\\nTo defeat this I determined to keep full speed on,\\nand with a port helm to run under the stern of the\\nAlabama, and rake her, if he did not prevent it\\nby sheerin and keeping his broadside to us. He\\nadopted this mode as a preventive, and as a conse-\\nquence the Alabama was forced with a full head of\\nsteam into a circular track during the engagement.\\nThe effect of this manoeuvre was such that at the\\nlast of the action, when the Alabama would have\\nmade off, she was near five miles from shore had\\nthe action continued from the first in parallel lines,\\nwith her head in shore, the line of jurisdiction\\nwould have been reached. The firing of the Ala-\\nbama from the first was rapid and wild toward\\nthe close of the action her firing became better.\\nOur men, who had been cautioned against rapid\\nfiring without direct aim, were much more delib-\\nerate and the instructions given to point the\\nheavy guns below rather than above the water-\\nline, and clear the deck with the lighter ones, were\\nfi.dly observed.\\nI had endeavored, with a port helm, to close in\\nwith the Alabama but it was not until just before\\nthe close of the action that we were in a position\\nto use grape. This was avoided, however, by her\\nsurrender. The effect of the training of our men\\nwas evident nearly every shot from our guns was\\ntelling fearfully on the Alabama, and in the seventh\\nrotation on the circular track, she winded, setting", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "36 AS TO KEARSARGE MOUNTAIN,\\nfore trysail and two jibs, with head in shore. Her\\nspeed was now retarded, and by winding, her port\\nbroadside was presented to us with only two guns\\nbearing, not having been able, as I learned after-\\nward, to shift over but one. I saw now that she\\nwas at our mercy, and a few more well directed\\nguns brought down lier flag. I was unable to as-\\ncertain whether it had been hauled down or shot\\naway, but a white flag having been displayed over\\nher stern, our fire was reserved. Two minutes had\\nnot more than elapsed before she again opened on\\nus with the two guns on the port side. This drew\\nour fire again, and the Kearsarge was immediately\\nsteamed ahead and laid across her bows for raking.\\nThe white flag was still flying, and our fire was\\nagain reserved. Shortly after this her boats were\\nseen to be lowering, and an oflicer in one of them\\ncame alongside and informed us the sliip had sur-\\nrendered and was fast sinking. In twenty minutes\\nfrom this time the Alabama went down.\\nSemmes and forty of his men were picked up by\\nthe English yacht Deerhound, and landed in Eng-\\nland.\\nSoon after the battle, English newspapers pub-\\nlished accounts of it so false and mistaken, about\\ndamage to the Kearsarge, etc., that Capt. Winslow\\naddressed a short letter to the London Daily JVeivSj\\ncontradicting all such twaddle/ saying, I sup-\\nposed the action, for hot work, had just commenced\\nwhen it ended.\\nThe one-sided statements above alluded to in-\\nduced Mr. Frederick Milnes Edge, an English gen-", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "AND THE COR\\\\ ETTE. 37\\ntleman of high character, to prepare a complete\\nstory of the engagement, from which the following\\nis condensed\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2The importance of the engagement between\\nthe United States sloop-of-war Kearsargc, and the\\nConfederate privateer Alabama, cannot be esti-\\nmated by the size of tlic two vessels. The conflict\\noff Cherbourg on Snnda}^ the 19th of June, was\\nthe first decisive engagement between shipping\\npropelled by steam, and the first test of the merits\\nof modern naval artillery. It was, moreover, a\\ncontest for superiority between the ordnance of\\nEurope and America, whilst the result furnishes\\nus with data wherefrom to estimate the relative\\nadvantages of rifled and smooth-bore cannon at\\nshort range.\\nPerhaps no greater or more numerous misrep-\\nresentations were ever made in regard to an en-\\ngagement than in reference to the one in question.\\nThe first news of the conflict came to us enveloped\\nin a mass of statemnts, the greater part of which,\\nnot to use an unparliamentary expression, was\\ndiametrically opposed to the truth.\\nWithin a few days of the fight, the writer of\\nthese pages crossed from London to Cherbourg for\\nthe purpose of obtaining, by personal examination,\\nfull and precise information in reference to the en-\\ngagement. It would seem as though misrepresen-\\ntation, if not positive falsehood, were inseparable\\nfrom everything connected with the Alabama, for\\non reaching the French naval station he was pos-\\nitivel}^ assured by the people on shore that nobody\\nwas permitted to board the Kearsarge. Preferring,\\nhowever, to substantiate the truth of these allega-", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "38 AS TO KEARSARGE MOUNTAIN,\\ntions from the officers of the vessel themselves, he\\nsailed out to the sloop, receiving on his arrival\\nan immediate and polite reception from Captain\\nW inslow and his gallant subordinates. During\\nthe six days he remained at Cherbourg, he found\\nthe Kearsarge open to the inspection, above and\\nbelow, of anybody w^ho chose to visit her and he\\nfrequently heard surprise expressed by English and\\nFrench visitors that representations on shore were\\nso inconsonant with the truth of the case.\\nI found the Kearsarge lying under the guns of\\nthe French ship-of-the-line Napoleon, two cables\\nlength from that vessel, and about a mile and\\na half from the harbor she had not moved from\\nthat anchorage since entering the port of Cher-\\nbourg, and no repairs whatever had been eftected\\nin her hull since the fight. I had thus full oppor-\\ntunity to examine the extent of her damage, and\\nshe certainly did not look at all like a vessel which\\nhad just been engaged in one of the hottest con-\\nflicts of modern times.\\nThe Kearsarge, in size, is by no means the terri-\\nble craft represented by those who, for some reason\\nor other, seek to detract from the honor of her vic-\\ntory she appeared to me a mere yacht in compar-\\nison with the shipping around her, and disappoint-\\ned many of the visitors who came to see her. The\\nrelative proportions of the antagonists were as fol-\\nlows\\nAlabama. Kearsarge.\\nLength over all, 220 ft. 232 ft.\\nLength of keel, 210 ft. 1 98. J ft.\\nBeam, 32 ft. 33 ft.\\nDepth, 17 ft. 16J ft.\\nHorse power, 2 engines of 300 each 400 h. p.\\nTonnage, 1,040 i;03i", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "AND THE CORVETTE. 39\\nThe Alabama was a barque-rigged screw pro-\\npeller, and the heaviness of her rig, and, above all,\\nthe greater size and height of her masts, would give\\nher the appearance of a much larger vessel than\\nher antagonist. The masts of the latter are dis-\\nproportionately low and small she has never car-\\nried more than top-sail yards, and depends for her\\nspeed upon her machinery alone. It is to be ques-\\ntioned whether the Alabama, with all her reputa-\\ntion for vclocit} could, in her best trim, outsteam\\nher rival. The log-book of the Kearsarge, which\\nI was courteously permitted to examine, frequently\\nshows a speed of upwards of fourteen knots the\\nhour, and her engineers state that her machinery\\nwas never in better working order than at present.\\nI have not seen engines more compact in form,\\nnor, apparently, in tiner condition, looking in every\\npart as though thev were fresh from the workshop,\\ninstead of being, as they are, half through the\\nthird year of the cruise.\\nThe armaments of the Alal: ama and Kearsarge\\nwere as follows\\nARMAMENT OF THE ALABAMA.\\nOne 7-inch Blakely rifle.\\nOne 8-inch smooth-bore (68-pounder).\\nSix 32-poiniders.\\nARMAMENT OF THE KEARSARGE.\\nTwo ii-inch smooth-bore guns.\\nOne 30-pounder rifle.\\nFour 32-pounders.\\nIt will therefore be seen that the Alabama had\\nthe advantage of the Kearsarge, at all events in\\nthe number of her guns; whilst the weight of the\\nlatter s broadside was only some 20 per cent, great-", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "40 AS TO KEARSARGE MOUNTAIX,\\ner than her own. Tliis disparit}^, however, was\\nmore than made np by the greater rapidity of the\\nAhdjama s firing. Each vessel fought with all her\\nguns, with the exception in either case of one 33-\\npounder on the starboard side but the struggle\\nwas really decided by the two ii-inch Dahlgren\\nsmooth-bores of the Kearsarge against the 7-inch\\nBlakely rifle and the heavy 6S-pounder pivot of\\nthe Alabama.\\n^The Kearsarge lay oft Fayal towards the latter\\npart of April, 1S63, on the look-out for a notorious\\nblockade-runner named the Juno. Being short\\nof coal, which made her sit high out of water, and,\\nfearing some attempts at opposition on the part of\\nher prey, the first officer of the sloop, Lieutenant-\\nCommander James S. Thornton, suggested to Cap-\\ntain Winslow the advisability of hanging her two\\nsheet-anchor cables over her sides, so as to protect\\nher midship section. Mr. Thornton had served on\\nboard the flag-ship of Admiral Farragut, the Hart-\\nford, when she and the rest of the Federal fleet\\nran the forts of the Mississippi to reach New Or-\\nleans and he made the suggestion at Fayal through\\nhaving seen the advantage gained by it on. that\\noccasion. I copy the following extract from the\\nlog-book of the Kearsarg^e\\nHoRTA Bay, Fatal (May ist, 1863).\\nFrom 8 to Merid. Wind E. N. E. (F 2).\\nWeather b. c. Strapped, loaded, and fused (5 sec.\\nfuse) 13 Xl-inch shell. Commenced armor plat-\\ning ship, using sheet chain. Weighed kedge an-\\nchor.\\n(Signed)\\nE. M. Stoddard, Acthig Master", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "AND THE CORVETTE. 4t\\nThis operation of chain-armoring took three\\nclays, and was eflected without assistance from the\\nsliore, and at an expense of material of seventy-five\\ndoUars (\u00c2\u00a311^). In order to make the addition less\\nunsightly, the chains were boxed over with J-inch\\ndeal boards, forming a case, or box, which stood\\nout at right angles from the vessel s sides. This box\\nwould naturally excite curiosity in every port where\\nthe Kearsarge touched, and no mystery was made\\nas to what the boarding covered. Capt. Semmes\\nwas perfectly cognizant of the entire aftair, for he\\nspoke about it to his officers and crew several days\\nprior to the 19th of June, declaring that the chains\\nwere only attached together with rope-yarns, and\\nwould drop into the water when struck with the\\nfirst shot. I was so informed by his wounded men\\nlying in the naval hospital at Cherbourg. What-\\never might be the value for defence of this chain-\\nplating, it was only struck once during the engage-\\nment, so far as I could discover by a long and close\\ninspection. Some of the officers of the Kearsarge\\nasserted to me that it was struck tw^ice, wdiilst\\nothers deny that declaration in one spot, however,\\na 32-pounder shot broke in the deal covering and\\nsmashed a single link, two thirds of which fell\\ninto the water. The remainder is in my posses-\\nsion, and proves to be of the ordinary 5J-inch chain.\\nHad the cable been struck by the rifled i30-pound-\\ner instead of by a 33, the result might have been\\ndifierent but in any case the damage would have\\namounted to nothing serious, for the vessel s side\\nwas hit five feet above the water-line, and nowhere\\nin the vicinity of the boilers or machinery. Capt.\\nSemmes evidently regarded this protection of the\\nchains as little worth, for he might have adopted", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "42 As TO KEARSARGE mountain,\\nthe same plan before engaging the Kearsarge but\\nhe confined himself to taking on board 150 tons of\\ncoal as a p7-otectio7t to his boilers^ which, in addi-\\ntion to the 200 tons already in his bunkers, would\\nbring him pretty low in the water. The Kear-\\nsarge, on the contrary, was deficient in her coal,\\nand she took what was necessary on board during\\nmy stay at Cherbourg.\\nOn the morning of the battle an excursion train\\narrived from Paris, and visitors were received at\\nthe terminus of the railway by the boatmen of the\\nport, who offered them boats for the purpose of\\n%^Q\\\\\\\\\\\\ ga genuhie 7iaval battle which was to take\\nplace during the day. Turning such a memorable\\noccurrence to practical uses, Mons. Rondin, a cel-\\nebrated photographic artist on the Place d Armes\\nat Cherbourg, prepared the necessary chemicals,\\nplates, and camera^ and placed himself on the\\nsummit of the old church tower in happy juxta-\\nposition with his establishment. I was only able\\nto see the negative, but that was sufficient to show\\nthat the artist had obtained a very fine view of the\\nexciting contest. Five days, however, had elapsed\\nsince Captain Semmes sent his challenge to Cap-\\ntain Winslow through the Confederate agent. Mon-\\nsieur Bonfils, surely time sufficient for him to\\nmake pll the preparations which he considered\\nnecessary. Meanwhile the Kearsarge was cruising\\nto and fro at sea, outside the breakwater.\\nSo soon as the Alabama was made out, the\\nKearsarge immediately headed seaward and steam-\\ned otf the coast, the oijject being to get a sufficient\\ndistance from the land to obviate any possible in-\\nfringement of French jurisdiction and, secondly,\\nin case of the battle going against the Alabama,", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "AND THE CORVETTE. 43\\nthe latter could not retreat into port. When this\\nwas accomplished, the Kearsarge was turned short-\\nly round and steered immediately for the Alabama,\\nCaptain Winslow desiring to get within close\\nrange, as his guns were shotted with five-seconds\\nshell. The interval between the two vessels being\\nreduced to a mile, or thereabouts, the Alabama\\nsheered and discharged a broadside, nearly a rak-\\ning lire, at the Kearsarge. More speed was given\\nto the latter to shorten the distance, and a slight\\nsheer to prevent raking. The Alaljama fired a sec-\\nond broadside, and i^art of a third, while her antag-\\nonist was closing; and, at the expiration of ten or\\ntwelve minutes from the Alabama s opening shot,\\nthe Kearsaroe discharored her first broadside. The\\naction henceforward continued in a circle, the dis-\\ntance between the two vessels being about seven\\nhundred yards this, at all events, is the opinion of\\nthe Federal commander and his officers, for their\\nguns were sighted at that range, and their shell\\nburst in and over the privateer. The speed of the\\ntwo vessels during the engagement did not exceed\\neight knots the hour.\\nAt the expiration of one hour and two minutes\\nfrom the first gun, the Alabama hauled down her\\ncolors and fired a lee gun (according to the state-\\nments of her officers), in token of surrender. Cap-\\ntain Winslow could not, however, believe that the\\nenemy had struck, as his own vessel had received\\nso little damage and it was only when a boat came\\nofi from the Alabama that her true condition was\\nknown. The ii-inch shell from the Kearsarge,\\nthrown with fifteen pounds of powder at seven hun-\\ndred yards range, had gone clean through the star-\\nboard side of the privateer, bursting in the port side", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "44 AS To keArsarge mountain,\\nand tearing great gaps in her timber and planking.\\nThis was phunly obvious when the Alabama set-\\ntled by the stern and raised the forepart of her hull\\nhigh out of water.\\nThe Kearsarge was struck twent3^-seven times\\nduring the conflict, and fired in all one hundred\\nand seventy-three (173) shots. The trifling damage\\nreceived by the Kearsarge proves the exceeding!}-\\nbad fire of the Alabama, notwithstanding the num-\\nbers of men on board the latter belonging to our\\nNaval Reserve, and the trained hands from the\\ngunnery ship ^Excellent. I was informed by\\nsome of the paroled prisoners on shore at Cher-\\nbourg that Captain Semmes fired rapidly at the\\ncommencement of the action in order to frighten\\nthe Yankees, nearly all the officers and crew being,\\nas he was well aware, volunteers from the mer-\\nchant service. At the expiration of twenty min-\\nutes after the Kearsarge discharged the first broad-\\nside, continuing the battle in a leisurely, cool man-,\\nner, Semmes remarked, Confound them they ve\\nbeen fighting twenty minutes, and they re as cool\\nas posts. The probabilities are, that the crew of\\nthe Federal vessel had learnt not to regard as dan-\\ngerous the rapid and hap-hazard practice of the\\nAlabama.\\nFrom the time of her first reaching Cher-\\nbourg until she finally quitted the port, the Kear-\\nsarge never received the slightest assistance from\\nshore, with the exception of that rendered by\\na boiler-maker in patching up her funnel. Every\\nother repair was completed by her own hands, and\\nshe might have crossed the Atlantic immediately\\nafter the action witliout difficulty.\\nSuch are the facts relating to the memorable", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "AND THE CORVETTE. /|5\\naction off Cherbourg on the 19th of June, 1864.\\nThe Alabama went down riddled through and\\nthrough with shot and, as she sank beneath the\\ngreen waves of the Channel, not a single cheer\\narose from the victors. The order was given,\\nand in perfect silence this terror of American com-\\nmerce plunged to her last resting-place.\\nThere is but one key to the victory. The two\\nvessels were, as nearly as possible, equals in size,\\nspeed, armament, and crew, and the contest was\\ndecided by the superiority of the ii-inch Dahlgren\\nguns of the Kearsarge over the Blakely rifle and\\nthe vaunted 68 -pounder of the Alabama, in con-\\njunction with the greater coolness and surer aim of\\nthe former s crew. The Kearsarge was not, as rep-\\nresented, specially armed and manned for destroy-\\ning her foe, but is in every respect similar to all\\nthe vessels of her class (third-rate) in the United\\nStates Navy.\\nIt appears that out of one hundred and sixty-\\nthree officers and crew of the sloop-of-war Kear-\\nsarge, there are only eleven persons foreign born.\\nThe men of the Alabama, almost without exception,\\nare subjects of Her Majesty the Qiieen.\\nWilliam Smith, a quartermaster of the Kear-\\nsarge, was captain of one of the eleven-inch guns,\\nwhich did such execution that vSemmes offered his\\nmen a reward to silence it. One shell, which\\nwas believed to have been fired from Smith s gun,\\nkilled and wounded eighteen men in the Alabama,\\nand disabled a cannon.\\nThe thunder of the battle w^as heard across the", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "46 AS TO KEARSARGE MOUNTAIN,\\nchannel in churches on the south coast of Eng-\\nland.\\nCapt. Winslow was publicly thanked by the\\nNavy Department for the ability displayed in this\\ncombat, was advanced to the grade of commo\\ndore, received the thanks of congress, and an exten-\\nsion of ten years on the active list of the navy. Be-\\ncause of the renown which this affair gave him in\\nEurope, he was, in 1S66, on the recommendation\\nof Secretary Seward, given command of the Gulf\\nSquadron, while the question of the withdrawal\\nof the French army from Mexico was pending. He\\nreached the grade of admiral in July, 1S70.\\nLieut. Commander Thornton was advanced ten\\nnumbers on the naval register, and ultimately\\nreached the rank of captain. He died in Philadel-\\nphia, May 14, 1875, in consequence of injuries re-\\nceived at sea while in command of a naval vessel\\nin the South Pacific ocean.\\nIt will be observed, by reference to various date s\\nin this collection, that Mr. Fox s claim as to the\\nnaming of the Kearsarge was not broached until\\nafter the death of both Admiral Winslow and Capt.\\nThornton, but immediately thereafter.\\nSecretary Welles, in his letter of Sept. 27, 1875,\\nwhich has been referred to in the foregoing pagos,\\nmakes the suggestion that the honor to which the\\ntrue Kearsarge is entitled should be waived as an\\naward to the fair and the brave. The time may", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "AND THE CORVETTE.\\n47\\ncome when it will be in order to consider that\\nsuggestion. It will be, if ever, when persons edu-\\ncated at their country s expense, found doing bu-\\nreau duty in time of war, tying and unt} ing red\\ntape, and higgling with contractors, are deemed\\nfairer and braver than the men who fought and\\nsunk the Alabama.", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "LETTERS\\nThe following letter was received in reply to an\\ninquiry, which stated the writer s hope and belief\\nthat in the references to Kearsarge, in the Bridal\\nof Penacook and The Drovers, the poet had the\\nINIerrimack county mountain in mind\\nOak Knoll,\\nDanvers, 12 mo., 20, 1S77.\\nMy Dear Friend\\nThou art right as regards my mention of Kear-\\nsarge. The other Mt. is not properly Kearsarge.\\nI mention the real Kearsarge in The Drovers.\\nEre yet the pines of Kearsarge\\nHave seen the sun of morning.\\nThanking thee for thy kind words,\\nI am very truly thy friend,\\nJohn G. Whittier.\\nBoston, Aug. 15, 1878.\\nDear Sir In reply to your inquir}^, I take\\npleasure in saying that it was always understood\\n4", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "50 AS TO KEARSARGE MOUNTAIN.\\nby the officers and crew of the Kearsarge, from the\\ncaptain down, that the corvette was named for the\\nmountain in Merrimack county. That was our\\nbelief when we left Portsmouth; when we fought\\nthe Alabama, and all through the cruise.\\nWe knew there was a mountain bearing the\\nname of Pequawket, or Kiarsarge, in Carroll\\ncounty.\\nYours truly,\\nEzra Bartlett,\\nFor77ierly Master s Mate of Kea7 sarge.\\nConcord, N. H., Ma^^ 15, 1879.\\nDear Sir: My father invariably called the\\nmountain in Merrimack county, Kearsarge.\\nWhen I was a mere boy he took me on a\\njourney to the White Mountain region, and at\\nNorth Conway he pointed out the mountain near\\nthat village, and told me its name was Pigwacket,\\nor Pequawket 1 never heard him say it was en-\\ntitled to any other name.\\nYours truly,\\n_ Isaac A. Hill.\\nH 106 89", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": ",1\\n\\\\$k 1", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "v^*\\nHECKMAN\\nBINDERY INC.\\n#OCT 89\\nN. MANCHESTER.\\nINDIANA 46962", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3005", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "astokearsargemou00conc_0060.jp2"}}