Halleck
Halleck names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Halleck HENRY WAGER, an American military officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HENRY WAGER, an American military officer; born in Westernville, N. Y., Jan. 16, 1815. He was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1839. During the Mexican War he was employed in the operations on the Pacific coast, and for services was 451 HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS breveted captain in 1847. He took a leading part in organizing the State of California, became captain of engineers in 1853, left the service in 1854, and for some time practiced law in San Francisco. On the outbreak of the Civil War he reentered the army, and in November, 1861, was appointed Commander of the Department of the Missouri, which in a few weeks he reduced to order. In March, 1862, the Confederate first line had been carried from end to end, and Halleck's command was extended so as to embrace, under the name of the Department of the Mississippi, the vast stretch of territory between the Rocky Mountains and the Alleghenies. His services in the field ended with the capture of Corinth, with its 15 miles of intrenchments, in May, 1862. In July he became General-in- Chief of the armies of the United States; and henceforth he directed from Washington the movements of the generals in the field, till, in March, 1864, he was superseded by General Grant. Halleck was chief of staff till 1865, commanded the Military Division of the Pacific till 1869, and that of the South till his death, Jan. 9, 1872. His "Elements of Military Art and Science" (1846; new edition 1861) was much used during the Civil War; and he also published books on mining laws, etc.
Halleck FITZ-GREENE, an American poet
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
FITZ-GREENE, an American poet; born in Guilford, Conn., July 8, 1790. By his mother he was descended from John Eliot, "the apostle of the Indians." He became a clerk in a bank in New York in 1811, and in 1832 the private secretary of John Jacob Astor; in 1849 he retired, on an annuity of $200 left him by Astor, to his native town, where he spent the remainder of his days. From his boyhood Halleck wrote verses, and in 1819 he contributed, with Joseph Rodman Drake, a series of humorous satirical papers in verse to the New York "Evening Post." In the same year he pubhis longest poem, "Fanny" (2d lished edition, enlarged, 1821), a satire on the literature, fashions, and politics of the time. He visited Europe in 1822, and in 1827 published anonymously an edition of his poems (3d edition, enlarged, 1845). In 1865 he published "Young America," a poem of 300 lines. His His complete "Poetical Writings" was published in 1869. He died in Guilford, Conn., Nov. 19, 1867.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's in 1921 gives Henry Wager Halleck a broadly respectable notice, crediting him with reducing Missouri to order and taking Corinth; later historians have been harsher on his caution in the field while giving him more credit as the administrator who built the Union army's supply and staff machinery, an argument made at length in John Marszalek's 2004 biography, Commander of All Lincoln's Armies. The bigger reversal is Fitz-Greene Halleck. In 1877 he became the first American poet honored with a statue in Central Park, unveiled before a crowd that included President Hayes, and Collier's could still assume readers knew Fanny and Marco Bozzaris; today the statue stands on the Literary Walk beside a poet almost nobody reads, and most recent scholarly interest has turned to the intensity of his attachment to Joseph Rodman Drake, the collaborator the 1921 entry mentions only in passing.
Written for this edition, 2026.