DATE

1863. January 26. Hooker appointed to command

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310

293

of the Army of the Potomac.
February 3. Mediation offered by France 358, 370
February 25. National Bank Act passed.
March 3. Conscription Act passed
April 7. Battle of Sabine Cross Roads .
April 30. Bailey's dam constructed at Alex-

andria

293, 322

May 1. Grand Gulf taken

May 1. The Confederate Congress ordered
death penalty for Union officers captured
in command of negro troops

396

396

294

326

375

May 2. Port Gibson taken

June 13. Battle of Winchester

June 19. West Virginia admitted into the

June 27. The Confederates reached Carlisle,

Pa.

June 27. Hooker succeeded by Meade
June 29. Early began operations before Har-

July 1-3. Battle of Gettysburg

318

309, 451

318

319

319

320

DATE

PAGE

1863. September 6. Fort Wagner captured

September 15. The writ of habeas corpus sus

September 19-20. Battle of Chickamauga
October 8. Great Britain ordered the deten-
tion of Confederate vessels built at
Liverpool

October 17. Lincoln called for three hundred

thousand troops

November 24. Battle of Lookout Mountain
December 8. Proclamation of Amnesty and

Reconstruction issued

December 20. Joseph E. Johnston appointed

to command of the Confederate armies
in the West

1864. February 1. Call issued for two hundred
thousand troops

March. The Confederate vessel Japan cap

tured off the Tagus .

March 2. Grant appointed lieutenant-general
April 11. Slavery abolished in Louisiana

396

385

383

361

385

384

437

April 11. Slavery abolished by the Pierpoint
government in Virginia

May 5. Naval battle in Albemarle Sound
May 5-6. Battle of the Wilderness

428

402

June 3. Battle of Cold Harbor.

June 13.

Battle of Kenesaw Mountain.

June 17. Hood appointed to succeed Johnston

June 19. The Alabama destroyed off Cher

bourg

June 23. McPherson killed

June 24. State Constitutional Convention

of Maryland proposed abolition of slav

ery

452

DATE

1864. August 5. Naval battle in Mobile Bay September 3. Atlanta surrendered. September 19. Third Battle of Winchester

PAGE

September 22.

Battle of Fisher's Hill.

403

October 31. Nevada admitted into the Union
November 16. Sherman began his "March to

453

Lee's army

Savannah captured

1865. January 9. Missouri abolished slavery January 14. Tennessee adopted constitutional amendment abolishing slavery

January 15. Fort Fisher captured

January 31. Thirteenth Amendment abolish

ing slavery passed

February 3. Hampton Roads Conference

held on the River Queen .

February 18. Charleston evacuated.
February 22. Wilmington taken
February 23. J. E. Johnston re-appointed to
command the Army of the Tennessee
March. The Confederate Congress author-
ized the enlistment of negroes

April 1.

Battle of Five Forks

April 2. Petersburg and Richmond evacuated
April 7. Grant demands the surrender of

April 9. The Army of Northern Virginia

444

463

463

464

surrendered

467

April 26. Johnston surrendered his army 491
May 4. Taylor surrendered the Confederate
forces East of the Mississippi.

May 26. Kirby Smith surrendered the Con-
federate army West of the Mississippi
May 10. Jefferson Davis captured at Irwins-
ville
November 6. The Confederate privateer
Shenandoah surrendered by Great Britain
December 18. Ratification of Thirteenth
Amendment proclaimed

1868. The indictment of Jefferson Davis dismissed

492

492

492

429

456

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

VOLUME XV

FACING PAGE

Mary Todd Lincoln. From a photograph made in 1862, in the collection of Julius F. Sachse, Esq.

Abraham Lincoln. From a copy of a photograph made in January, 1861, at Springfield, Illinois, now in the Newberry Library, Chicago.

Map showing free and slave soil, 1820.

Map showing expansion of the United States, 1783-1867

Caricature of the "Secession Movement," published in 1861.
From a print in the Library of Congress, Washington
Winfield Scott, major-general, U. S. A.

title

17

32

37

44

Simon Cameron's call on the Governor of Virginia for troops.
From the original in possession of the Historical Society of
Pennsylvania.

48

Edwin McMasters Stanton. From the painting by H. Uhlke in the War Department, Washington

65

65

69

Gideon Welles. From the painting by Matthew Wilson in the
Navy Department, Washington .

The long bridge over the Potomac at Washington in 1864 .
Broadside calling for action addressed to Major-general Halleck,
Lincoln, etc., dated June 30, 1863. From an original in
the New York Public Library, Lenox Branch

Philip Henry Sheridan, major-general, U. S. A.

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