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...Confederates at once determined to invade the state. Gen Leonidas Polk entered at the west, and established himself in a strongly fortified position at Columbus. The Confederate line extended from here to the Cumberland Gap, far to the east, under the command of Gen. A. S. Johnston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DR. FISKE'S LECTURE. | 12/11/1895 | See Source »

...Polk had attempted to get control of the Ohio river, but here Grant made his first appearance, and with characteristic promptness, occupied Cairo and Poducale, effectually keeping control of the Ohio and also of the Tennessee and the Cumberland. These two rivers made aneasy point of attack upon the Confederate line, as Grant was soon to show...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DR. FISKE'S LECTURE. | 12/11/1895 | See Source »

Graduation committee, A. N. Jerrems, J. M. Polk, C. B. Sturges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Class Officers. | 11/22/1895 | See Source »

...Green, Worcester, Mass., J. R. Trowbridge of Chicago, Robert Nichols, Binghamton, N. Y.; triennial committee, P. H. McMillan, of Detroit, Mich., Alonzo Potter of New York, John R. Howland of New York city; cup committee, H. P. Perkins, Warren, O., A. P. Harrington, Lyons, N. Y., and F. L. Polk, New York city; secretary, W. G. Van Nane, New Haven; historians, E. S. Reed, Holyoke, Mass., F. T. Davies, Jr., Detroit, Mich.; R. D. Paine, St. Augustine, Fla.; Arthur Judson, Montclair, N. J., A. N. C. Fowler, Glenn Falls, N. Y.; class day committee, P. F. Stillman of Brooklyn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Commencement Officers. | 10/19/1893 | See Source »

Scroll and Keys - C. R. Skinker, Litchworth Smith, J. C. Sawyer, Earl Sheffield, W. M. Raymond, H. Bishop Perkins. A. A. Bigelow, Arthur Judson, Guy B. Miller, Fred Perkins, Alonzo Potter, T. L. Polk, Calvin Burr, Thomas Arbuthnot, Casselbury Dunkerson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Society Elections. | 5/27/1893 | See Source »

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