Fort Donelson by Confederates repulsed.— Knights of the Golden Circle at Reading, 6. The Emancipation Proclamation pub- Pa.-4. Town of Palmyra, on the Cumberlished in Louisiana.-7. Mutiny of the land, destroyed by National gunboats.—5. 100th Illinois Regiment. Confederates de- Confederate vessels detained at Liverpool clare the blockade at Galveston and Sabine by order of the British government.-6. Pass opened.-8. Circulation of the Chi- President Lincoln and family visited the cago Times suppressed.-10. Official denial Army of the Potomac.-7. Combined atthat the blockade at Charleston had been tack of iron-clad vessels on Fort Sumter; raised.-11. Confederates attempt to as- fivc out of seven National vessels disabled. sassinate General Banks on his way to the Emperor of the French intimates his abanOpera-house in New Orleans.-12. Na- donment of the European intervention tional currency bill passes the Senate. policy in our national affairs.-8. Raid The Jacob Bell, from China, with a cargo of Nationals through Loudon county, Va.— of tea worth $1,000,000, captured and 14. Engagement at Kelly's Ford, on the 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 Gun 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.

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

Blue Springs, Tenn.-17. The President orders a levy of 300,000 men, announcing that if not furnished by Jan. 1, 1864, a draft for the deficiency would be made. -30. Union meeting at Little Rock, Ark.

federates defeated.-Nov. 1. Plot to liberate Confederate prisoners in Ohio discovered.—2. Landing of General Banks's army in Texas.-3. Confederate cavalry defeated near Columbia, and at Colliersville, Tenn. Battle of Bayou Coteau, La.-4. Banks takes possession of Brownsville on the Rio Grande.—9. Gen. Robert Toombs denounces the course of the Confederate 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.

missed from the Confederacy.-15. President Lincoln calls for 100,000 men to repel invasion.-19. Confederate invasion of Indiana.-21. Confederate cavalry defeat- parture.-10. Confederates defeated at ed at Aldie Gap, Va.-28. General Meade succeeded General Hooker in the command of the Army of the Potomac. Bridge over the Susquehanna burned. The authorities of the city of Philadelphia petition the President to relieve General McClellan -31. Battle of Shell Mound, Tenn.; Conof command.-30. Martial law proclaimed in Baltimore.-July 1. Battle at Carlisle, Pa.-10. Martial law proclaimed at Louisville, Ky. Cavalry engagement on the Antietam battle-field.-11. Conscription under the draft begins in New York City.—12. Martial law proclaimed in Cincinnati.—13. Yazoo City, Miss., captured by the Nationals.-14. Draft riots in Boston.-15. Riots in Boston, Brooklyn, Jersey City, Staten Island, and other places. -23. Engagement at Manassas Gap; 300 Confederates killed or wounded, and ninety captured.-30. President Lincoln proclaims a retaliating policy in favor of negro soldiers. Defeat of Confederates at Winchester, Ky.-Aug. 1. Heavy cavalry fight at Kelly's Ford, Va., and Confederates defeated.-3. Governor Seymour, of New York, remonstrated against the enforcement of the draft, because of alleged unfair enrolment. On the 7th President Lincoln replied and intimated that the draft should be carried out.-6. National Thanksgiving Day observed.-12. Gen. Robert Toombs exposes the bankruptcy of the Confederacy. -15. The Common Council of New York City voted $3,000,000 for conscripts.-21. National batteries opened on Charleston. -22. Beauregard protests against shelling Charleston.-25. Many regiments in the squares of New York City to enforce the draft; removed Sept. 5.-28. The Supervisors of New York county appropriate $2,000,000 for the relief of conscripts.Sept. 4. Bread-riot at Mobile, Ala.—11. One-half of James Island, Charleston Harbor, captured by National troops.-13. Brilliant cavalry engagement at Culpeper Court-House, Va.-21. Sharp cavalry fight and National victory at Madison Court-House, Va.-24. Port of Alexandria. Va., officially declared to be open to trade. -Oct. 5. Confederates under Bragg bom

1864. Jan. 11. General Banks issued a proclamation for an election in Louisiana, Feb. 22. A provisional free-State government inaugurated at Little Rock, Ark.25. Congress thanked Cornelius Vanderbilt 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

tains, 5,811 lieutenants, 10,563 non-commissioned officers, 121,156 privates of the Confederate army, and 5,800 Confederate citizens had been made prisoners by National troops. General Crook defeated the Confederates at Cloyd's Mountain, W. Va., and fought an artillery duel on the 10th.

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 years or the war.-4. Colonel Mulligan drove Early out of Moorefield, W. Va. -13. Governor Bramlette, of Kentucky, proclaims protection to slaves from claims by Confederate owners.-22. Michael Hahn elected governor of Louisiana by the loyal 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 a unanimous vote.-16. Ohio Superior Court decides the soldiers' voting law constitutional. Surprise and defeat of Confederates at Half Mountain, Ky., by Colonel Gallup.-17. Women's bread riot in Savannah, Ga.-21. Nationals destroy the State salt-works near Wilmington, N. C., worth $100,000.-25. The offer of 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

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 States gunboat Water Witch surprised and captured in Ossabaw Sound, Ga.-6. General Hunter occupied Staunton, Va.-9. Blockade-runner Pervensey run ashore by the supply-steamer Newbern, and taken: worth, with cargo, $1,000,000.-13. The United States House of Representatives repealed the Fugitive Slave law.-17.

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