1862. 15.-Drafting in Boston and Baltimore.-Fighting near Lexington, Ky. 19.-Skirmish near Nashville. 20.-Morgan (rebel) captures a wagon train near Bardstown, Ky. 21.-Attack on the rebels near Nashville.-Rebels leave Western Virginia. 23.-Rebels defeated at Maysville, Ark. 24.-Gen. Buell deprived of the command and Gen. Rosecrans put at 25. Skirmish near Manassas. 26.-Advance of McClellan's army begun. 27.-Battle of Labadieville, La. 29. Great fire at Harper's Ferry. 30.-Gen. Mitchel died at Port Royal of yellow fever. 31.-Skirmish at Maysville, Ky. NOVEMBER. 1.—Artillery fight at Phillomont, Va. 2.-Union troops possess Snicker's Gap.-Gen. Foster's expedition left 3.-Upperville, Piedmont, and Thoroughfare Gap, Va., in Union pos- session. 4.-Ashby's Gap occupied; engagement at Markham, Va.-Gen. Grant's 5.-Order issued for the removal of Gen. McClellan.-Engagements at 6.-McClellan's advance occupy Warrenton, Va. 7.-Gen. McClellan removed from command; Gen. Burnside appointed. 8.—Skirmish at Little Washington, Va.-Gen. Bayard holds Rappahan- 9.-Rebels routed near Moorfield, Va.-Gen. Butler's sequestration order issued. 10.-Gen. Bayard's cavalry dash into Fredericksburg.-Gen. Rosecrans 12.-Gen. Halleck visits the army of the Potomac.—Gen. McClellan ar- 1862. 13. Skirmish near White Sulphur Springs, Va.-Holly Springs, Miss., occupied by Union forces. 14.-Gen. Stahel's forces pass Snicker's Gap. 15.—Artillery fight at Fayetteville, Va.-Rebels evacuate Warrenton. 16-Order issued for observance of the Sabbath in the army. 17.-Burnside's headquarters at Catlett's Station.-Artillery skirmish near Fredericksburg. 18.-Burnside's left wing advance reaches Falmouth, opposite Fredericksburg.-Skirmish at Rural Hill, Tenn. 20.-Skirmish at Charlestown, Va. 21.-Surrender of Fredericksburg demanded, and notice given to remove non-combatants. 22.-General order for the release of all State prisoners. 25.-Raid of rebels into Pooleville, Md.-Rebels attack Newbern. 26.-President Lincoln visits Burnside.-Gen. Sherman's forces leave Memphis. 28.-Battle of Cone Hill, Ark. 28.-Rebel cavalry cross the Rappahannock and capture two companies of Union cavalry, not far from Fredericksburg. 29.-Union expedition a few days before invaded Mob Jack Bay, Va., and destroyed rebel salt works.-Rebels defeated at Frankfort, West Virginia; 108 captured. DECEMBER. 1.-A rebel battery captured near Suffolk, Va. 1-3.-Rebels in Tenn. and Miss. retreating before Gen. Grant's army. 3.-Gen. Geary takes possession of Winchester, Va. 7.-Battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas. 11.-Bombardment of Fredericksburg commenced; our troops cross the river in the course of the afternoon. 13.-Battle of Fredericksburg, resulting in a total defeat to the Union forces under Burnside. 15.-Gen. Burnside's army retreated to the north side of the Rappahannock, during the night. 20.-Gen. Foster returns to Newbern, after defeating the rebels in four battles, taking Kingston and Goldsboro, and destroying several bridges and miles of the track of the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad. 1863. JANUARY. 1.-The Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln, declaring slaves in the insurrectionary States and Districts forever and henceforward free, issued.—The Battle of Murfreesboro, Tenn., commenced Dec. 31, 1862, continued. The engagement opened at dawn by Gen. Rosecrans. The battle was hotly contested, and the losses great on both sides. The rebel guerrilla Morgan defeated in Kentucky.-The rebel Gen. Forrest defeated at Hunt's Cross Roads, Tenn., by Gen. Sullivan.-Galveston, Texas, recaptured by the rebels, who also took the steamer Harriet Lane. The steamer Westfield blown up to prevent its capture. 2.-Battle of Stone River or Murfreesboro, Tenn., continued; the rebels were repulsed in an attack on our left wing.-Gen. Sherman's force, operating against Vicksburg, Va., withdrawn from the Yazoo River.-Dumfries, Va., entered by Stuart's cavalry. 3. The rebels retreated from the battle-field of Murfreesboro.-Arrival in N. Y. of a cavalry company from Cal.-Our forces at Moorefield, West Va., attacked.-Part of the Monitor's crew picked up on Hatteras Shoals.— Department of the East, (New York and New England States) created, and Gen. John E. Wool assigned to its command. 5.-Murfreesboro, Tenn., occupied by a national force.-J. P. Usher, of Indiana, nominated as Secretary of the Interior.-Gen. Milroy, in Wes. Va., issued an order concerning the President's Emancipation Proclamation. 6.-Gen. Carter's Union force reached Manchester, Ky., on its return from a raid into East Tennessee; bridges were destroyed and prisoners taken. 7.-Successful reconnoissance of Union troops in the neighborhood of West Point, Va. 8.-Springfield, Mo., attacked by the rebels.-Rebel camp at Huntoon's Mills, near Fort Pillow, surprised.-Steamer Mussulman burned by guerrillas near Memphis, Tenn. 9.-Order issued by Gen. Halleck, thanking Gen. Rosecrans and his army for the victory of Murfreesboro.-The rebels repulsed at Providence Church, on the Blackwater, Va. 10.-Cavalry skirmish at Catlett's Station, Va.-Battle at Arkansas Post commenced.-English steamer Rising Dawn captured.-Brig J. P. Ellicott captured by the privateer Retribution. 11.-Fort Hindman and Arkansas, on the Arkansas River, surrendered by the rebels.-Union gunboat Hatteras sunk by the Alabama, off Texas.Gen. Weitzel crossed Berwick Bay and attacked the rebel gunboat Cotton in the Bayou Teche. 12.-Gen. John E. Wool assumed command of the Department of the 1863. East, Headquarters at N. Y. city.-Jeff. Davis' message sent to the rebel congress.-Gen. John A. McClernand congratulated his army on the capture of Arkansas Post. 13.-Peace resolutions introduced into the New Jersey Legislature. 14.-Col. James W. Wall elected United States Senator from New Jersey-Engagement at the Bayou Teche, La.-Lieut. Commander (Union) Thos. McKeon Buchanan killed. 15.-Union gunboat Columbia destroyed by rebels near Wilmington, N. C. 16.-Rebel privateer Oreto ran the blockade out of Mobile. 17.-Steamer Vanderbilt arrived at Fortress Monroe after an unsuccessful cruise after the Alabama.—Rebel privateer Oreto destroyed the brig Estelle. 18.-Gen. Hunter arrived at Hilton Head.—A large fleet sailed from Napoleon and Memphis for Young's Point and Milliken's Bend, near Vicksburg, on this and the following days. 20.-Gen. Burnside announced to the army of the Potomac that it was about to meet the enemy again.-Gen. Hunter assumed command of the Department of the South.-The rebel privateer Alabama arrived at Jamaica. 21.—The expedition under Gen. Grant, from Napoleon, arrived at Young's Point, nine miles from Vicksburg.-Engagement near Sabine Pass, Galveston, Texas; gunboat Morning Light and the bark Velocity, captured by the rebels off Sabine Pass, Texas. 24. Gen. Burnside relieved of the command of the Army of the Potomac, and the command assigned to Gen. Hooker. 25.-Cars on the railroad, between Nashville and Franklin, Tenn., destroyed by rebels.-The iron-clad Montauk arrived off Fort McAllister, Ga. 26.—Gen. Burnside took leave of the command of the Army of the Potomac.-Gen. Hooker, in general orders, assumed command.-Gens. W. B. Franklin and Sumner relieved of their commands in the army of the Potomac.-Bark Golden Rule burned, and ship Washington captured by the Alabama. 27.—Gen. Hooker visited Washington.-Cavalry skirmish at Middleburg, Va.-A. D. Boileau, of the Phila. Journal, arrested by order of the Government.—Bombardment of Fort McAllister, on the Ogeechee River, Ga., by the Montauk.-Brig Chastelaine burned by the Alabama. 29.-Excitement in Phila. over the arrest of the editor of the Evening Journal.--Charge of Judge Ludlow to the Grand Jury on the subject.— English steamer Princess Royal captured off Charleston, S. C. 30.-Victory of Gen. Corcoran over Gen. Roger A. Pryor's force near the Blackwater, the engagement being called the Battle of the Deserted House.-Union gunboat Isaac Smith, captured in the Stono River, S. C. 31.-The fleet blockading Charleston, S. C., attacked by the rebel iron 1863. clads Chicora and Palmetto State; Union gunboat Mercedita surrendered.— Gen. Beauregard and Flag-Officer D. N. Ingraham (rebel), formally declared by proclamation that the blockade of Charleston, S. C., was raised.-J. P. Benjamin, Secretary of State of the Confederate States, gave official notice that the blockade was broken.-Schooner Hanover destroyed by the privateer Retribution. FEBRUARY. 1.—Franklin, Tenn., occupied by Federal forces.-A. J. Boileau, editor of the Phila. Evening Journal, released from Fort McHenry.-Fort McAllister, Ga., again attacked.-Gunboat New Era attacked Island No. 10. 2.-A bill providing for the employment of negro soldiers passed the United States House of Representatives.-Rebel camp at Middletown, Tenn., surprised.-Department of Washington constituted under command of Gen. Heintzelman. The Union ram Queen of the West ran past the rebel batteries at Vicksburg, and attacked the rebel steamer City of Vicksburg. 3. The rebels repulsed in an attack on our forces at Dover, Tenn., by Union gunboats.—Fort Donelson, Tenn., invested by the rebels. 4.-Engagement at Fort McAllister, Ga. 5. Our forces repulsed a rebel attack on Fort Donelson, Tenn.-Union ram Queen of the West returned from her expedition past the batteries of Vicksburg, having destroyed three rebel transports and an immense quantity of rebel stores. 6.-Raid of Union cavalry to Middleburg and Aldie, Va. 7.-Reconnoissance from the right wing of the army of the Potomac.Engagement near Williamsburg, Va. 8. Our forces entered Lebanon, Tenn., capturing a number of rebels. 9.-Collision between the transport North Star and the steamer Ella Warley, near Sandy Hook. 10.-Gen. Rosecrans issued an order declaring that all rebel soldiers found in national uniforms should not be treated as prisoners of war, or receive quarter in battle.-Official denial that the blockade at Charleston, S. C., had been raised. 11. Secretary Seward transmitted to the Senate a communication relative to the visit of the French Minister to Richmond. 12.-Passage of the National Currency bill by the Senate.-Slight skirmish near Smithfield, Va.-Great fire at Norfolk, Va.-Ship Jacob Bell, from China, captured and burned by the Florida.-Rebel fort on Pelican Island, near Galveston, Texas, shelled by the Brooklyn. 13.-A Court of Inquiry, relative to cotton and other traffic on the Mis |