DATE 1863. January 26. Hooker appointed to command PAGE 310 293 of the Army of the Potomac. andria 293, 322 May 1. Grand Gulf taken May 1. The Confederate Congress ordered 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 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 17. Lincoln called for three hundred thousand troops November 24. Battle of Lookout Mountain Reconstruction issued December 20. Joseph E. Johnston appointed 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 396 385 383 361 385 384 437 April 11. Slavery abolished by the Pierpoint May 5. Naval battle in Albemarle Sound 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 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. April 1. Battle of Five Forks April 2. Petersburg and Richmond evacuated April 9. The Army of Northern Virginia 444 463 463 464 surrendered 467 April 26. Johnston surrendered his army 491 May 26. Kirby Smith surrendered the Con- 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. title 17 32 37 44 Simon Cameron's call on the Governor of Virginia for troops. 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 The long bridge over the Potomac at Washington in 1864 . Philip Henry Sheridan, major-general, U. S. A. 76 97 |