Knights of the Golden Circle at Reading Pa.-4. Town of Palmyra, on the Cumberland, destroyed by National gunboats.-5. Confederate vessels detained at Liverpool by order of the British government.-6. President Lincoln and family visited the Army of the Potomac.-7. Combined attack of iron-clad vessels on Fort Sumter; five out of seven National vessels disabled. Emperor of the French intimates his abandonment of the European intervention policy in our national affairs.-8. Raid of Nationals through Loudon county, Va.14. Engagement at Kelly's Ford, on the Fort Donelson by Confederates repulsed. 6. The Emancipation Proclamation published in Louisiana.-7. Mutiny of the 100th Illinois Regiment. Confederates declare the blockade at Galveston and Sabine Pass opened.-8. Circulation of the Chicago Times suppressed.-10. Official denial that the blockade at Charleston had been raised.-11. Confederates attempt to assassinate General Banks on his way to the Opera-house in New Orleans.-12. Na tional currency bill passes the Senate. The Jacob Bell, from China, with a cargo of tea worth $1,000,000, captured and burned by the Confederate cruiser Florida. Rappahannock.-20. Great mass-meeting -14. National cavalry defeated at An- at Union Square, New York, in commemonandale, Va.-15. Confederates defeated ration of the uprising of the loyal people at Arkadelphia, Ark.-16. Conscription in 1861.-24. National forces defeated at bill passed the United States Senate.-20. Beverly, Va. Confederates defeated on the National currency bill passed the United Iron Mountain Railroad near St. Louis. States House of Representatives.-23. National forces rout the Confederates at United States Senate authorized the sus- Tuscumbia, Ala.-26. Destructive Union pension of the privilege of habeas corpus. raid on Deer Creek, Miss. Confederates -25. English-Confederate steamer Peter- defeated at Rowlesburg, Va.-27. Conhoff captured by the Vanderbilt. Na federate "Texan Legion" captured near tional currency act approved by the Franklin, Ky.-28. Cavalry engagement President.-26. Cherokee national council at Sand Mountain, Ga.; Confederates derepeal the ordinance of secession.-28. feated.-29. Fairmount, Va., captured by Confederate steamer Nashville destroyed Confederates.-30. Fast Day in the United by the Montauk in Ageechee River. States. Artillery engagement at ChancelMarch 4. Palmyra, Mo., burned by lorsville, Va. Confederates defeated at Union gunboats. 6. General Hunter Williamsburg, Va.-May 1. Battle at ordered the drafting of negroes in the Monticello, Ky.; Confederates defeated.Department of the South. Confeder- 3. Mosby's guerillas routed at Warrenates capture Franklin, Tenn.-8. Briga- ton Junction.-4. Admiral Porter takes dier - General Stoughton captured by possession of Fort de Russy, on Red River. Moseby's cavalry at Fairfax Court-House, 6. Confederates put to flight near TuVa. Twenty-three Confederate steamers pelo, Miss. Battle near Clinton, Miss.captured on the Yazoo River.-11. Gov- 15. Corbin and Grau hung at Sandusky ernor Cannon, of Delaware, declared the for recruiting within the Union lines.— national authority supreme.-18. House 18. Democratic convention in New York of Representatives of New Jersey pass City expresses sympathy with Vallandigpeace resolutions.-19. Mount Sterling, ham.-22-23. Battle of Gum Swamp, N. C., Ky., taken by Confederates, and retaken --28. First negro regiment from the by Nationals on the 23d. English-Con- North left Boston.-June 1. Democratic federate steamer Georgia, laden with convention in Philadelphia sympathized arms, destroyed near Charleston.-25. Im- with Vallandigham.-3. Peace party meetpressment of private property in the Con- ing in New York, under the lead of Ferfederacy authorized.—31. General Herron nando Wood.—8. Departments of Mononappointed to the command of the Army gahela and Susquehanna created.-12. of the Frontier. Jacksonville, Fla., burn- Darien, Ga., destroyed by National forces. ed by Union colored troops and evacuated. Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania, calls -April 1. Cavalry fight near Drainesville, out the militia and asks for troops from Va.-2. Farragut's fleet ravaged in Red New York to repel threatened Confederate River. Serious bread-riot in Richmond; invasion. General Gillmore in command the mob mostly women.-3. Arrest of of the Department of the South.—14. I The consuls of England and Austria dis- barded Chattanooga, Tenn., from Lookout Mountain.-7. The British government seized the Confederate rams building in the Mersey, and forbid their de missed from the Confederacy.-15. Presi- government in a speech in Georgia.-11. Lord Lyons, the British minister, officially informed the United States government of a contemplated Confederate raid from Canada, to destroy Buffalo, and liberate Confederate prisoners on Johnson's Island, near Sandusky. A fleet of French steamers arrived off Brazos, Tex.-15. Corpus Christi Pass, Tex., captured by National troops.-18. Mustang Island, Tex., captured by the Nationals.-19. Gettysburg battle-field consecrated as a national cemetery for Union soldiers who fell in the July battles.-26. National Thanksgiving Day observed.-Dec. 8. President Lincoln issued a proclamation of amnesty. Congress thanked General Grant and his army, and ordered a gold medal to be struck in honor of the general.-12. Notice given that the Confederate authorities refused to receive more supplies for the starving Union prisoners in Richmond, Va. bilt for the gift to the government of the steamer Vanderbilt, worth $800,000.-26. The United States Circuit Court at Louisville, Ky., decided that guerillas were" common enemies," and that carriers could not recover at law goods stolen by such.-27. Ladies' Loyal League, New York, sent a petition for general emancipation, bearing 100,000 signatures. Confederate cavalry de- erate camp on the Weldon road, and defeated at Sevierville, Tenn. Three hundred stroyed $500,000 worth of property at Confederate salt-kettles destroyed at St. Jarratt's Station.-7. To this date, one Andrew's Bay, Fla.-28. Battle at Fair lieutenant-general, five major-generals, Garden, Tenn.; Confederates defeated.- twenty-five brigadiers, 186 colonels, 146 Feb. 1. The President ordered a draft, on lieutenant-colonels, 214 majors, 2,497 capMarch 10, for 500,000 men, for three tains, 5,811 lieutenants, 10,563 non-comyears or the war.-4. Colonel Mulligan missioned officers, 121,156 privates of the drove Early out of Moorefield, W. Va. Confederate army, and 5,800 Confederate -13. Governor Bramlette, of Kentucky, citizens had been made prisoners by Naproclaims protection to slaves from claims tional troops. General Crook defeated the by Confederate owners.-22. Michael Hahn Confederates at Cloyd's Mountain, W. Va., elected governor of Louisiana by the loyal and fought an artillery duel on the 10th. vote. Moseby defeats Union cavalry at -16. Sortie from Fort Darling upon GenDrainesville.-23. Admiral Farragut began eral Butler's besieging force.-18. General a six days' bombardment of Fort Powell, Howard defeats a Confederate force at below Mobile.-March 2. Ulysses S. Grant Adairsville, Ga. Nationals defeat Confedmade lieutenant-general.-6. Confederates erates at Yellow Bayou, La., the latter hung twenty-three Union prisoners of war led by Prince Polignac. A forged Presi(one a drummer - boy aged fifteen) at dential proclamation, calling for 400,000 Kinston, N. C.-7. Vallandigham advises more troops, was published for the purforcible resistance to United States au- pose of gold speculation. The perpetrathority.-8. New York State voted by tors (Howard and Mallison) were sent over 30,000 majority for the soldiers' to Fort Lafayette.-26. Major-General voting law.-9. Colored troops under Colonel Cole captured Suffolk, Va.-15. President Lincoln calls for 200,000 men in addition to the 500,000 called for Feb. 1. -16. Governor of Kentucky remonstrates against employing slaves in the army. Arkansas votes to become a free-labor State.-17. General Grant assumes command of all the armies of the republic. Fort de Russy blown up by the National forces.-28. Louisiana State Constitutional Convention met at New Orleans.-31. Longstreet's army, after wintering in eastern Tennessee, retired to Virginia.-April 10. Confederates seized and blew up Cape Lookout light-house, N. C.-13. New York Senate passes the soldiers' voting bill by Foster takes command of the Department of the South. Louisiana State Constitutional Convention adopts a clause abolishing slavery.-27. Eight steamers and other shipping burned at New Orleans by incendiaries.-30. McPherson had a sharp encounter at the railroad near Marietta, Ga., taking 400 prisoners, with a railroad train of sick and wounded Confederates.June 1. To this date the Nationals had taken from the Confederates as naval prizes, 232 steamers, 627 schooners, 159 sloops, twenty-nine barks, thirty-two brigs, fifteen ships, and 133 yachts and small craft; in all, 1,227 vessels, worth $17,000,000.-2. Heavy artillery firing and skirmishing at Bermuda Hundred. United unanimous vote.-16. Ohio Superior States gunboat Water Witch surprised and Court decides the soldiers' voting law captured in Ossabaw Sound, Ga.-6. Genconstitutional. Surprise and defeat of eral Hunter occupied Staunton, Va.-9. Confederates at Half Mountain, Ky., by Blockade-runner Pervensey run ashore by Colonel Gallup.-17. Women's bread riot the supply-steamer Newbern, and taken; in Savannah, Ga.-21. Nationals destroy worth, with cargo, $1,000,000.-13. The the State salt-works near Wilmington, N. United States House of Representatives C., worth $100,000.-25. The offer of repealed the Fugitive Slave law.-17. 85,000 100-days' men by the governors of Near Atlanta 600 Confederate conscripts Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Iowa accepted by the President.-May 2. Ohio National Guard, 38,000 strong, report for duty.-4. Colonel Spear, 11th Pennsylvania Cavalry, departed on a raid from Portsmouth, Va., captured a Confed a fled to the Union lines.-22. Battle of Culp's Farm, Ga.-24. Maryland Constitutional Convention passed an emancipation clause.-25. General Pillow, with 3,000 Confederates, repulsed at Lafayette, Tenn. -27. General Carr defeated the Confeder |