GERARD, JAMES W. 



GERMAN-FRENCH WAR. 211 



Legislature, 354 ; adjournment, 355 ; census 

 statistics of 1870, 355, 356. 



XII. Session of the Legislature, 344; legisla- 

 tion, 344; reports of investigating committees, 

 844 ; amount of bonds indorsed by the State, 

 344 ; summary of the important statements of 

 the committee concerning the bonds, 344 ; bills 

 submitted by the committee, 345 ; resolutions 

 submitted, 345; report of the committee ap- 

 pointed to investigate the management of the 

 Atlantic & Western Railroad, 345, 346 ; report 

 of the committee on the official mismanage- 

 ment of Governor Bullock, 346 ; Democratic 

 Convention and resolutions, 346 ; action of the 

 Liberal Republicans, 347; Republican State 

 Convention and resolutions, 347 ; convention 

 of "Straight-outs," 347; resolutions, 347 ; re- 

 sults of the election, 347; riot in Savannah, 

 847, 348; finances, 348; State University, 

 848 ; State institutions, 348 ; statistics of agri- 

 culture, 348; of manufactures, 348 ; of churches, 

 349 ; of libraries, 349 ; of newspapers and pe- 

 riodicals, 349. 



XIII. Session of the Legislature, 319 ; acts 

 passed, 319; interest bonds, 819; appropria- 

 tions, 319 ; products, 319; meeting of Govern- 

 ors, 319; plan proposed for cheap transpor- 

 tation, 320 ; railroads, 320 ; decisions, 320 ; 

 finances, 320; university, 320; movement of 

 cotton in the State, 321. 



XIV. Session of the Legislature, 350 ; ques- 

 tion of a Constitutional Convention, 351 ; Ma- 

 con, 351 ; Commissioner of Agriculture, 351 ; 

 resolutions of the Lower House on civil-rights 

 bill, 351 ; Senate amendment, 352 ; convict- 

 labor leased, 352 ; State University, 352 ; geol- 

 ogist, 352 ; schools and school-fund, 352 ; State 

 finances, 352 ; illegal bonds, 352 ; remarks of 

 the Governor on revision of the State consti- 

 tution, 353; direct trade with Europe, 353; 

 railroads, 353 ; parties in the Legislature, 353 ; 

 congressional election, 353. 



XV. Session of the Legislature, 341 ; ques- 

 tion of a revision of the constitution, 842; 

 usury, 342 ; resolutions, 342 ; Treasurer's ac- 

 counts, 342 ; discrepancy, 342 ; management 

 of the Treasury, 343 ; further report of com- 

 mittee, 343 ; new Treasurer, 344 ; state of the 

 Treasury, 344; Brunswick Railroad, 344; in- 

 tended negro rising, 344 ; charges of indict- 

 ment, 345 ; trials, 345 ; geological survey, 

 345. 

 GERARD, JAMES W. XIV. Decease of, 625. 



GERARD, JULES. Birth, 407; adventures, 

 407 ; death, 407. 



GERMAN-FRENCH WAR. X. Declaration of 

 Ollivier, 342 ; candidature of Prince Leopold 

 as King of Spain, and action of France, 343 ; 

 Count Benedetti insults King William at Ems, 

 343 ; declaration of war by France, 343 ; let- 

 ter of Pope to King William, 844; reply of 

 the King, 344 ; neutrality of European powers, 

 344 ; secret treaty in regard to Belgium, 344 ; 

 organization of the two armies, 344 ; battle of 

 Saarbriicken and Emperor's dispatch to Em- 

 press, 345 ; map of vicinity, 845 ; Moltke's 

 plan of campaign, 345 ; battle of Weissenburg, 

 346; of Worth, 346; map of vicinity, 346; 

 general war-map, 347; German success at 

 Saarbrucken, 348; French army falls back, 

 348; Germans converge on Metz to shut in 

 Bazaine, 348 ; battle of Courcelles, 349 ; map 

 of vicinity of Metz, 349 ; Bazaine attempts 

 to retire from Metz, 349 ; Napoleon's farewell 

 to citizens of Metz, 350 ; battle of Vionville, 

 350 ; removal of King's headquarters to Pont- 

 a-Mousson, 350 ; battle of Gravelotte and shut- 

 ting up of French in Metz, 351 ; German forces 

 in France, 352 ; army of investment at Metz, 

 852 ; abandonment of Chalons by French, 352 ; 

 attempt of MacMahon to relieve Bazaine, and 

 action of Germans thereon, 352; battle of 

 Beaumont, 353 ; MacMahon surrounded at 

 Sedan, 353 ; capture of Bazeilles, 353 ; of Se- 

 dan, 354; map of vicinity of Sedan, 354; 

 wounding of MacMahon, 355 ; De Wimpffen 

 in command, 355 ; note of Napoleon to Wil- 

 liam, proposing surrender, 355 ; reply of King, 

 355 ; negotiations for surrender, 356 ; signing 

 of capitulation, 356 ; Napoleon's interview 

 with William, 356 ; prisoners taken, 356 ; 

 affairs at Metz meantime, 356 ; effect in Paris 

 of surrender at Sedan, 356 ; establishment of 

 a republic, 357; recognition of, by United 

 States and other countries, 357 ; proceedings 

 of Provisional Government, 357; Germans 

 march on Paris, 357 ; removal of Steinmetz, 

 358 ; surrender of Strasbourg, 358, 361 ; ca- 

 pitulation of Metz, 358 ; French Government 

 accuse Bazaine of treason, 358 ; surrender of 

 Verdun, 359 ; investment of Paris, 359 ; map 

 of vicinity, 359 ; circulars of Favre to French 

 diplomatic agents, 360 ; Bismarck's circular 

 defining condition upon which peace might be 

 made, 360 ; negotiations between Favre and 

 Bismarck, 360; surrender of Toul, 360; or- 



