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Newport, Rhode Island, 1861, artist's impression
    Record Data
    Place Unit Type
    City or Town
    Containing Unit
    Newport County, RI
    Events
    Date Type
    08/06/1860 American Scientific Association closes its fourteenth annual meeting in Newport, Rhode Island Science/Technology
    05/29/1866 Major-General Ambrose Everett Burnside is inaugurated as the thirtieth governor of Rhode Island. Campaigns/Elections
    04/05/1865 Republicans successful in Rhode Island elections, re-electing the governor and both congressmen Campaigns/Elections
    09/20/1906 Robert Roberts Hitt dies in Newport, Rhode Island Personal
    08/01/1860 - 08/05/1860 The American Scientific Association meets in Newport, Rhode Island Science/Technology
    People
    Birthplace of

    Lomax, Lunsford Lindsay

    Lunsford Lindsay Lomax, detail

    Shaw, Henry Marchmore

    No image yet available for this man

    Sherman, Thomas West

    Thomas West Sherman, detail
    Burial Place of

    Belmont, August

    August Belmont, detail

    Sheffield, William Paine

    William Paine Sheffield, circa 1862, detail

    Sherman, Thomas West

    Thomas West Sherman, detail

    Warren, Gouverneur Kemble

    Gouverneur Kemble Warren, detail
    Places
    Name Type
    State House, Newport, RI Location or Site
    Documents
    Date Title
    11/10/1857 “Old Brown and his Friends,” Richmond (VA) Dispatch, November 10, 1859.
    01/08/1858 Boston (MA) Liberator, "The Beauties of Personal Liberty Laws," January 8, 1858
    Images

    Newport, Rhode Island, 1861, artist's impression

    Newport, Rhode Island, 1861, artist's impression

    State House, Newport, Rhode Island, 1861, artist's impression

    State House, Newport, Rhode Island, 1861, artist's impression

    "Natural Effects of Sea-Bathing," cartoon, Harper's Weekly Magazine, July 27, 1867

    HD_Cbathing67_07HW039.jpg

    How to Cite This Page: "Newport, RI," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hddev.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/16364.

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