NAUGURATION.-Rumors of

a plan to assassinate Lincoln impelled him to come to Washing

ton secretly. He was inaugurated, March 4, 1861, surrounded by troops, under General Scott.

Condition of the Country.-All was now uncertainty. Southern officers in the army and navy of the United States were daily resigning, and linking their fortunes with the Confederate cause. There was still, however, a

Questions on the Geography of the Fifth Epoch.-Locate the following places noted as battle-fields. (Maps of the Richmond campaigns are on pages 236 and 261.) Philippi. Big Bethel. Boonville (Booneville). Carthage. Rich Mountain. Bull Run. Wilson's Creek. Hatteras Inlet. Lexington, Mo. Ball's Bluff. Belmont. Port Royal. Mill Spring. Fort Henry. Roanoke Island. Fort Donelson. Pea Ridge. New Bern (Newberne). Winchester. Pittsburg Landing. Island No. 10. Fort Pulaski. Fort Jackson. Fort Macon. Beaufort. Yorktown. Williamsburg. Corinth. Mechanicsville. Cedar Mountain. South Mountain. Antietam. Freder icksburg. Holly Springs. Murfreesboro. Galveston. Fort Sumter. Chancellorsville. Vicksburg. Gettysburg. Port Hudson. Chickamauga. Chattanooga. Knoxville. Fort de Russy. Sabine Cross Roads. Fort Pillow. Wilderness. Spottsylvania Court House. Resaca. Dallas. Lost Mountain. Petersburg. Atlanta. Mobile. Fort Gaines. Fort Morgan. Cedar Creek. Fort McAlister. Nashville. Fort Fisher. Columbia. Goldsboro. Fort Steadman. Five Forks. Appomattox Court House.

* Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky, February 12, 1809; died in Washington,