CONTENTS. Number of Regiments organized in the States of Massachusetts, New - - Interesting letter from a Southern lady, . Doings at the Norfolk Navy Yard-raising of the ships of war by the Interesting letter of a member of the Massachusetts Fifth Regiment,. 200 President Lincoln's proclamation calling for volunteers. -Privateer Savannah captured. — Union meeting in Preston, Va., and Louis- General Butler took possession of the Relay House. — Virginia and Arkansas pass an ordinance of secession. - Official correspond- ence between Minister Faulkner and the French Minister at Paris, 215 The Southern Congress pass an act legalizing piracy, Steamer "Daniel Webster" escapes from New Orleans. Major Anderson accepted the command of Kentucky Volunteers. -De- parture of the first troops from New Hampshire (Second Reg- Jefferson Davis authorized to raise an army. - Departure of the First Connecticut Regiment for the seat of war. — First Vermont Vol- 218 The Winans' steam-gun captured. — Blockade of Charleston com- menced. Great Union demonstration in San Francisco, . Terrible tragedy in St. Louis, and proclamation by General Harney, 224 Union troops under General Butler entered Baltimore and en- camped. General Butler issued a proclamation concerning his Departure of the Second Maine Regiment (the first troops that left the Bridges on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad destroyed. - Congress at Montgomery authorized the issue of Confederate bonds. Military department of Virginia created. - United States steamers attacked the rebel battery at Sewell's Point. · Arkansas admitted North Carolina passed an ordinance of secession. Seizure of tele- graphic despatches by Government. - General Butler took com- mand at Fortress Monroe - General Sanford at Washington, and General Patterson at Fort McHenry.- Occupation of Alexandria by Union troops. - Death of Colonel Ellsworth - Death of Jack- The Harriet Lane engaged the Pig Point batteries, Winthrop and Lieutenant Grebble, Harper's Ferry burnt and evacuated by the rebels, The First Regiment for three years' service. Skirmish at Vienna, General Patterson's advance into Virginia. — Battle near Martinsburg, 259 President calls for four hundred thousand men.-Fight at Buck- Engagement at Carracksford, and death of General Garnett, Occupation of Fairfax Court House, Germantown, and Centreville,- interesting incidents of the march, First Battle of Bull Run-Federal troops commanded by General Tyler-fall back to Centreville, General McClellan in command of the Army of the Potomac. — Pri- vateer Petrel sunk by the St. Lawrence.—War tax-bill passed Battle of Wilson's Creek, Mo.- General Lyon and McCulloch again engaged-death of General Lyon. -Official report of General Fremont.-Retreat of Sigel to Rolla. - Terrible panic at Spring- Ex-minister Faulkner arrested for treason.-Return from Richmond of Union soldiers, captured at Bull Run, Skirmish near Grafton, Va.- Mutiny in the Seventy-ninth New York Skirmish at Boone Court House, Va.- Terrible railroad disaster, Occupation of Paducah, Ky., and proclamation by General Grant, Battle of Lexington, and surrender of Colonel Mulligan, THE REBELLION IN THE UNITED STATES. CHAPTER XI. Our foreheads both sprinkled in Liberty's name FROM Headquarters "United States military depot," Annapolis, Md., we receive the following statement of troops which had arrived there up to April 27 (inclusive), and the disposition made of the same, this, of course, does not include any of those who passed through Baltimore, only thirteen days since the surrender of Fort Sumter : 780 men, Lawrence, 780 66 Maj. Cook, 66 Devens, 100 66 Col. Lefferts, 991 66 Hartvaupt, 390 Annapolis. 66 71st Penn. 4th 66 5th 66 66 10th (6 R. I. 1st Rifles, N. Y. 8th Regiment, 66 Smith, 1045 66 |