New York Sanitary Commission fair (receipts $1,200,000) opened. April 4, 1864 Battles of Sabine Cross-roads, Pleasant Grove, and Pleasant Hill, La. April 8-9, 1864 Fort Pillow, Tenn., captured by Confederates under Forrest, and colored garrison slaughtered... . April 12, 1864 Enabling act to admit Nebraska approved.... . April 19, 1864 Motto" In God We Trust" first stamped upon the bronze 2-cent coins authorized by act.... ..April 22, 1864 Hon. Daniel Clark, of New Hampshire, elected president of the Senate pro tem. April 26, 1864 Army of the Potomac, 130,000 strong, crosses the Rapidan....... . May 4, 1864 Sherman advances southward from Chattanooga.... May 4, 1864 Sassacus defeats the Confederate ram Albemarle in Albemarle Sound May 5, 1864 Battle of the Wilderness, Virginia May 5-6, 1864 Battle of Spottsylvania Court - house, Va.... . May 10, 1864 Battle at New Market, Va.; Sigel repulsed by Confederates.. . May 15, 1864 Confederates under Johnston evacuate Resaca, Ga..... . May 15, 1864 Act for a postal money-order system May 17, 1864 Offices of the New York Journal of Commerce and World, which had published a forged proclamation of the President, calling for 400,000 troops, seized and held several days by order of the Secretary of War... . May 19, 1864 [On July 1 Gen. John A. Dix and others were arrested, in accordance with a letter from Governor Seymour to District Attorney A. Oakey Hall, for seizing these offices.] Nathaniel Hawthorne dies at Plymouth, N. H., aged sixty..... May 19, 1864 Battles near Dallas, Ga. May 25-28, 1864 Act creating Montana Territory out of part of Idaho approved.... May 26, 1864 Convention of radicals at Cleveland, O., protests against the government's policy, and nominates Gen. John C. Frémont for President, and Gen. John Cochrane for Vice-President, by acclamation May 31, 1864 Currency bureau of the treasury established, with a comptroller of the currency, appointed by President by act. June 3, 1864 Philadelphia sanitary fair (receipts, $1,080,000) opens... ..June 7, 1864 Union National Convention meets at Baltimore, Md., on call of the national executive committee, Feb. 22; appoints Hon. William Dennison, of Ohio, president; admits delegates from Virginia and Florida to seats without votes, and rejects delegates from South Carolina..June 7, 1864 National Republican Convention meets at Chicago.... ...June 7, 1864 [On the first ballot for President, Lincoln received all the votes except those of Missouri for Grant, which were changed to Lincoln before the result was announced. First ballot for Vice-President, Andrew Johnson 200, D. S. Dickinson 108, H. Hamlin 150, scattering 61; after many changes the vote was announced: Johnson 494, Dickinson 17, Hamlin 9.] Vallandigham returns to Dayton, O., from Canada.... ...June 15, 1864 General assault of Federals on Petersburg, Va..... ..June 16-18, 1864 Confederate cruiser Alabama fights the United States ship Kearsarge off Cherbourg, France, and surrenders in a sinking condition..... .June 19, 1864 Battle of Weldon Railroad, Va. June 21-22, 1864 Lincoln accepts the renomination by letter, dated Washington......June 27, 1864 Battle of Kenesaw Mountain, Ga. June 27, 1864 Repeal of fugitive slave law of 1850 approved... .June 28, 1864 Act authorizing the issue of bonds not to exceed $400,000,000, or treasury notes not to exceed $200,000,000 and bonds for same amount.... .June 30, 1864 Congress grants Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Big Tree grove to California for a public park...... June 30, 1864 Secretary Chase resigns June 30; William P. Fessenden appointed. .July 1, 1864 Confederates evacuate Marietta, Ga. July 1, 1864 Act prohibiting the coastwise slavetrade forever approved......July 2, 1864 First session adjourns....July 2, 1864 President suspends the habeas corpus in Kentucky, and proclaims martial law July 5, 1864 President, under resolution of Congress, appoints the first Thursday of August as a day of humiliation and prayer July 7, 1864 July 12, 1864 English-built cruiser Georgia captured at sea by the Niagara......Aug. 15, 1864 General Grant seizes the Weldon Railroad...... ..Aug. 18, 1864 Democratic National Convention meets at Chicago, Aug. 29; Horatio Seymour chosen president of the convention and platform adopted, Aug. 30. On first ballot for President, Gen. George B. McClellan, of New Jersey, has 174 votes (as revised and declared, 2021⁄2); nomination made unanimous. George H. Pendleton, of Ohio, nominated on the second ballot for Vice-President....Aug. 31, 1864 Battles of Jonesborough, Ga. Aug. 31-Sept. 1, 1864 Hood evacuates Atlanta, Ga. Sept. 1, 1864 Gen. John H. Morgan killed at Greenville, Tenn.. .Sept. 4, 1864 General McClellan's letter accepting nomination, dated Orange, N. J. Sept. 8, 1864 Frémont withdraws in favor of Lincoln and Johnson, by letter...... Sept. 17, 1864 Battle of Winchester, Va. Sept. 19, 1864 Battle of Fisher's Hill, Va. Sept. 22, 1864 General Price invades Missouri Sept. 24-Oct. 28, 1864 English-built cruiser Florida captured in the Brazilian harbor of Bahia by the United States war-ship Wachusett, and taken to Hampton Roads, where she is sunk by a collision a few days after Hood supersedes Johnston in defence of Atlanta.... .....July 17, 1864 President calls for 500,000 volunteers for one, two, or three years. . July 18, 1864 On July 5 Horace Greeley received a letter from George N. Sanders, Clifton, Canada, averring that Clement C. Clay, of Alabama; James P. Holcombe, of Virginia, and the writer, Confederates in Canada, would proceed to Washington in the interest of peace if full protection were accorded them. Greeley referred this letter to the President, suggesting with it a plan of adjustment. The President requested him to proceed to Niagara Falls and communicate with the parties in per..July 18, 1864 [A fruitless conference was the result.] Battle of Peach Tree Creek, Ga. July 20, 1864 Battle of Decatur, or Atlanta, Ga. July 22, 1864 Battle of Ezra's Church, Ga. July 28, 1864 Chambersburg, Pa., raided and mostly burned.... ...July 30, 1864 Unsuccessful mine explosion under a Confederate fort, near Petersburg, Va., conducted by General Burnside..July 30, 1864 Confederate steamer Tallahassee, built in England, destroys many United States outh, N. C... merchantmen.........July-August, 1864 son..... Successful attack on the harbor of Mobile; Forts Gaines, Morgan, and Powell captured by fleet under Farragut and land forces under Granger... Aug. 5-22, 1864 Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan appointed to the Army of the Shenandoah Oct. 7, 1864 Battle of Cedar Creek, Va. Oct. 19, 1864 .Oct. 19, 1864 Raid on St. Albans, Vt., by Confederates Battle of Hatcher's Run, Va. Oct. 27, 1864 Nevada, the thirty-sixth State in order, admitted into the Union by proclamation of the President.. Oct. 31, 1864 Mr. Seward telegraphs the mayor of New York of a conspiracy to burn the Aug. 7, 1864 principal cities of the North.. Nov. 2, 1864 Second session of second Confederate Amendment to the Constitution, abolishCongress convenes at Richmond ing slavery, passes the House, 119 to 56 Jan. 31, 1865 Nov. 7, 1864 McClellan resigns his command in the Sherman leaves Savannah and starts army.. Nov. 8, 1864 northward.......... . Feb. 1, 1865 At the general election, Lincoln and President and Secretary Seward meet Johnson, Republican, carry twenty-two Alexander H. Stephens, Vice-President of States; McClellan and Pendleton, three the Confederacy, and commissioners R. (New Jersey, Delaware, and Kentucky); M. T. Hunter and Judge Campbell, to eleven not voting.. . Nov. 8, 1864 treat for peace, in Hampton Roads Atlanta burned, and Sherman begins his march to the sea...... .Nov. 14, 1864 Blockade of Norfolk, Va., Fernandina, and Pensacola raised by proclamation of President.... . Nov. 19, 1864 Confederate incendiaries fire many hotels in New York..... .Nov. 25, 1864 Battle of Franklin. . Nov. 30, 1864 Second session convenes. . . . Dec. 5, 1864 Fourth annual message of President Lincoln.... Dec. 6, 1864 Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, LL.D., born 1793, dies at Washington, D. C. Dec. 10, 1864 Dec. 19, 1864 Dec. 21, 1864 Grade of vice-admiral established for the United States navy by act of Congress.... Dec. 21, 1864 Fort Fisher, N. C., bombarded by General Porter, Dec. 24, and unsuccessfully attacked by Generals Butler and Porter Dec. 25, 1864 Vice President Hamlin resumes the chair in the Senate... . . . . . . . Jan. 5, 1865 General Grierson's raid; after destroying 100 miles of railroad, taking 600 prisoners and 1,000 contrabands, he arrives at Vicksburg... Jan. 5, 1865 Fort Fisher captured.....Jan. 15, 1865 Edward Everett dies at Boston, aged seventy-one.. .Jan. 15, 1865 Monitor Patapsco sunk off Charleston by a torpedo.... .Jan. 15, 1865 Joint resolution, proposing a Thirteenth Feb. 2-3, 1865 Bennett G. Burley, the Confederate raider on Lake Erie, surrendered to the United States by the Canadian government... . Feb. 3, 1865 Battle of Hatcher's Run, Va. Feb. 5, 1865 Electoral vote counted..... Feb. 8, 1865 Gen. J. M. Schofield appointed to command Department of North Carolina, with headquarters at Raleigh...... Feb. 9, 1865 President calls an extra session of the Senate, March 4, 1865...... Feb. 17, 1865 Columbia, S. C., surrenders to General Sherman.. . Feb. 17, 1865 Lee takes command of the Confederate armies... Feb. 18, 1865 Charleston, S. C., evacuated and burned by General Hardee, Feb 17, is occupied by Federal troops.. . Feb. 18, 1865 Fort Anderson captured by Federals under General Cox.... ..... Feb. 18, 1865 Wilmington, N. C., captured by General Schofield........ Feb. 22, 1865 Secretary of the Treasury authorized to borrow $600,000,000 on bonds at not exceeding 6 per cent. in coin March 3, 1865 Act passed to establish a bureau for the relief of freedmen and refugees March 3, 1865 A tax of 10 per cent. imposed on notes of State banks paid out after July 1, 1866... March 3, 1865 Confederate debt disowned by United States Senate, Feb. 17; by House of Representatives... March 3, 1865 Andrew Johnson inaugurated Vice-President; oath administered by H. Hamlin in the Senate chamber......March 3, 1865 Thirty-eighth Congress adjourns March 3, 1865 TWENTIETH ADMINISTRATION - REPUBLICAN, March 4, 1865, to March 3, 1869. Abraham Lincoln, Illinois, President. Andrew Johnson, Tennessee, Vice-President. Special session of Senate adjourns Battle of Five Forks, Va. at the executive mansion at noon, and ap- Macon, Ga., occupied by Union forces March 31-April 1, 1865 son.. April 7, 1865 April 14, 1865 Secretary Seward and his son wounded in his own house by an assassin A.M.... April 14, 1865 President Lincoln dies at about 7.30 . April 15, 1865 Chief-Justice Chase administers the oath of office as President to Andrew Johnson April 15, 1865 April 26, 1865 Executive order for trial by military commission of alleged assassins of President Lincoln issued........ May 1, 1865 Reward of $100,000 offered for the capture of Jefferson Davis by proclamation of President... .. . May 2, 1865 Confederate Gen. Richard Taylor surrenders at Citronelle, near Mobile, Ala. May 4, 1865 Executive order re-establishing anthority of the United States in Virginia recognizes Francis H. Pierpont as governor... May 10, 1865 Jefferson Davis captured, with his wife, mother, Postmaster-General Reagan, Colonel Harrison, Johnson, and others, by 4th Michigan Cavalry, under Colonel Pritchard, at Irwinsville, Ga. May 10, 1865 [Davis taken to Fortress Monroe.] Last fight of the war near Palo Pinto, Tex.; a Federal force under Colonel Barret defeated by Confederates under General Slaughter...... . May 13, 1865 Confederate ram Stonewall surrenders to Spanish authorities in Cuba May 20, 1865 President Johnson proclaims Southern ports open.. ... May 22, 1865 Grand review of the armies of the Potomac, Tennessee, and Georgia at WashFuneral services of President Lincoln ington, D. C................ May 22-23, 1865 Gen. E. Kirby Smith surrenders his trans-Mississippi army..... May 26, 1865 President proclaims general amnesty to rebels, with exceptions, on taking oath of allegiance.. .May 29, 1865 William W. Holden proclaimed provisional governor of North Carolina by President Johnson.... . May 29, 1865 Day of humiliation and mourning on account of the assassination of Lincoln June 1, 1865 British government rescinds its recognition of the Confederates as belligerents June 2, 1865 Galveston, Tex., the last seaport held by the South, surrenders....June 5, 1865 French government rescinds its recog nition of the Confederates as belligerents June 6, 1865 Judge William L. Sharkey appointed provisional governor of Mississippi by President Johnson........June 13, 1865 Proclamation of President removing restrictions on trade east of the Mississippi after July 1, and declaring insurrection in Tennessee suppressed June 13, 1865 Gen. A. J. Hamilton appointed provisional governor of Texas by President June 17, 1865 James Johnson appointed provisional governor of Georgia......June 17, 1865 Lewis E. Parsons proclaimed provisional governor of Alabama......June 21, 1865 Proclamation of the President rescinding the blockade. .......June 23, 1865 Restriction of trade west of the Mississippi removed by proclamation of President..... ..June 24, 1865 Benjamin F. Perry proclaimed provisional governor of South Carolina June 30, 1865 Execution of Lewis Payne, G. A. Atzerodt, David E. Harold, and Mary E. Surratt, implicated in the assassination of Lincoln... July 7, 1865 William Marvin proclaimed provisional governor of Florida....July 13, 1865 Confederate privateer Shenandoah (Captain Waddell) destroys about thirty Federal vessels during......August, 1865 Mississippi nullifies the ordinance of secession.... .Aug. 22, 1865 All restrictions on Southern ports removed after Sept. 1 by proclamation of President.. .Aug. 29, 1865 South Carolina repeals ordinance of secession...... ...Sept. 15, 1865 Alabama annuls the ordinance of secession..... .....Sept. 25, 1865 North Carolina annuls the ordinance of secession.... .....Oct. 7, 1865 Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia; John H. Reagan, of Texas; John A. Campbell, of Alabama; George A. Trenholm, of South Carolina, and Charles Clark, of Mississippi, paroled by executive order Oct. 11, 1865 President proclaims end of martial law in Kentucky.... .....Oct. 12, 1865 Great Fenian meeting at Philadelphia; the Irish republic proclaimed Oct. 16-24, 1865 Florida repeals ordinance of secession Oct. 28, 1865 Georgia repeals ordinance of secession Oct. 30, 1865 National thanksgiving for peace Nov. 2, 1865 Shenandoah, Captain Waddell, reaches Liverpool, England, Nov. 6; he had first heard of the peace Aug. 2; vessel given up to British government, and crew paroled Nov. 8, and the vessel given to the American consul........ Nov. 9, 1865 Captain Wirz, after military trial, begun Aug. 21, is convicted of cruelty to Federal prisoners in Andersonville, and hung.... .Nov. 10, 1865 Ex-President Buchanan publishes a vindication of his administration November, 1865 Habeas corpus restored in the northern States by President's proclamation Dec. 1, 1865 Thirty-ninth Congress, first session, .Dec. 4, 1865 convenes.. |