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Louise Morgan Sill
Louise Morgan Smith Sill (December 18, 1867 – March 31, 1961) was an American poet, writer, translator, and editor. Early life and education Smith was born in Honolulu, and raised in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Morgan Lewis Smith and Louise Genella Smith. Her father was a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.Leonard, John William, ed. Woman's who's who of America' (1914): 746. At the time of her birth, her father was the United States ambassador to Hawai'i, then an independent kingdom. Career Sill wrote poems that appeared in several major magazines, including ''Scribner's'' and ''The Atlantic''. "Almost everyone writes nowadays," wrote one reviewer of her 1906 collection ''In Sun and Shade,'' "but few have written anything very much better in serious poetry than Louise Morgan Sill." She was an editor on the staff of ''Harper's Magazine'' from 1905 to 1910. During World War I she worked at a hospital in France. She translated works from Frenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giles Alexander Smith
Giles Alexander Smith (September 29, 1829 – November 8, 1876), was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Biography Smith was born in Jefferson County, New York. When he was 18, he moved to southwestern Ohio, and for a decade engaged in business in Cincinnati. In the late 1850s, he moved to Bloomington, Illinois, where he was proprietor of a hotel. At the beginning of the Civil War, he joined the 8th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Union), 8th Missouri Infantry Regiment, in which he became a Captain (United States O-3), captain. He took part in the capture of Fort Donelson, the Battle of Shiloh, and the operations against Siege of Corinth, Corinth, becoming, later in 1862, Colonel (United States), colonel of a regiment which he led at battle of Chickasaw Bayou, Chickasaw Bayou. After the Battle of Vicksburg, final campaign against Vicksburg, on August 4, 1863 he was appointed Brigadier general (United States), brigadier general of volunteers to rank from Augu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
