DATE 1863. September 6. Fort Wagner captured September 15. The writ of habeas corpus sus pended October 17. Lincoln called for three hundred November 24. Battle of Lookout Mountain to command of the Confederate armies 1864. February 1. Call issued for two hundred March. The Confederate vessel Japan cap tured off the Tagus. March 2. Grant appointed lieutenant-general April 11. Slavery abolished by the Pierpoint PAGE 396 385 383 361 385 384 437 399 385 428 397 452 452 May 5. Naval battle in Albemarle Sound 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 October 7. PAGE . Battle of Fisher's Hill. The Florida captured in the harbor of Bahia 428 October 31. Nevada admitted into the Union 453 surrendered 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 23. J. E. Johnston re-appointed to command the Army of the Tennessee 462 March. The Confederate Congress authorized the enlistment of negroes Battle of Five Forks . 347, 353 463 April 1. Lee's army April 9. The Army of Northern Virginia 463 464 April 14. Anderson raised the old flag over April 14. Lincoln assassinated April 17. Negotiations opened for the sur- April 18. Articles of peace agreed between 477 480 485 April 26. Johnston surrendered his army 491 forces East of the Mississippi 492 492 492 429 456 495 November 6. The Confederate privateer Shenandoah surrendered by Great Britain 1868. The indictment of Jefferson Davis dismissed LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS VOLUME XV FACING PAGE Hiram Ulysses Grant. From the painting by A. Muller Ury in the Corcoran Gallery, Washington Map showing free and slave soil, 1820 . Map showing expansion of the United States, 1783–1867 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 Janu- Caricature of the "Secession Movement," published in 1861. title 17 32 49 49 64 Edwin McMasters Stanton. From the painting by H. Uhlke in the War Department, Washington . 97 Gideon Welles. From the painting by Matthew Wilson in the Navy Department, Washington . Philip Henry Sheridan, major-general, U. S. A. 97 112 George Gordon Meade, major-general, U. S. A. 112 Oliver Otis Howard, major-general, U. S. A. |