INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



Africa. Native government*, 1 ; Egypt, 1 ; cities, 1 ; pop- 

 ulation, 1 ; Abyssinia, 1 ; its emperor, 1 ; Liberia, 1 ; 

 Madagascar, 1 ; Mauritius, 1 ; population, 1 ; Senegal, 1; 

 Catholics in Africa, 1 ; Protestants in Africa, 2 ; negro 

 tribes, 2. 



Agriculture. Crops in 1S63, 2; frosts, 2; crops of England 

 and France, 2 ; crops of 1S62 and 1863 compared, 2 ; grape 

 culture, 2 ; amount of each of the principal crops in the 

 northern States and Territories, 8; varieties of grapes, 

 4; California grape culture, 4; wine making, 4 ; cotton 

 in the Western States, 4; flax, 4; wool manufacture, 4; 

 sheep, 4; agricultural fairs, 4; grants of land by Govern- 

 ment, 5; foreign agriculture, 5 ; crops in Sweden, 5; ex- 

 ports, 5. 



Alabama. Military affairs, 6; disturbances, 6; appeal of 

 the governor to the planters to raise provisions, 6 ; ad- 

 dress to the people by members of Congress, 7 ; extra 

 session of the Legislature, 7 ; its object, 7 ; Gov. Short- 

 er's message, 7; resolutions on independence, 7; on the 

 employment of slaves, 7; State election, 7; letter of 

 Gov. Watts on reconstruction, 7 ; address of Jefferson 

 Davia at Mobile, 8 ; commerce of the State, 8. 



America, Political subdivisions, 8; important events, 8; 

 Central America, 8; Colombia, 8; Venezuela, 8; en- 

 croachments of European powers, 9 ; France, 9 ; Amer- 

 ican continental alliance, 9 ; changes in relation to 

 slavery, 9. 



Anglican Churches. Summary of them, 10 ; bishops, 10 ; 

 . Metropolitans, 10 ; Church of Liberia, 10 ; its organi- 

 zation, 10 ; do. Hayti, 11 ; Confederate Episcopal Church, 

 11; dioceses and missions in United States, 11; Board 

 of Missions, 11 ; American Church Missionary Society, 

 11; Church Union Society, 11 ; Church of England, 12 ; 

 works of Bishop Colenso, 12 ; proceedings relative there- 

 to, 12; controversy on the "Essays and Reviews," 12 ; 

 attempt to establish a monastic order, 12 ; Brother Ig- 

 natius, 12 ; movement to open communication with the 

 Eussian Church, 18 ; its success, 18. 



ANTHON, JoHN.-Jiirth, 13; death, 18; education, 13 ; pub- 

 lic services, 18. 



ANTHONY, HENRY B., Senator from Khode Island, 188 ; on a 

 resolution of inquiry, 259. 



Anthropology (see Ethnology). 



Arkadelphia, in Arkansas, 14; position, &c., 14. 



Arkansas. Military operations in, 14 ; capture of Little 

 Kock, 14 ; letter of the mayor surrendering the city, 14 ; 

 behavior of the troops, 14 ; effect of the capture of Lit- 

 tle Kock, 15; address of Gen. Blunt, 15; feeling of the 

 people, 15 ; proclamation of President Lincoln, 16. 

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Arkansas Post. Its position, 16 ; capture, 16. 



Arkansas River. Course, 16; outlet, 16. 



Army, Confederate. Acts of Congress, 16; proclamation 

 of Jefferson Davis, 18 ; number estimated from conscrip- 

 tion, 17; who were residents in Richmond and liable to 

 conscription, 17 ; report of the Conscript Bureau, 17 ; 

 order of Gen. Pemberton relative to paroled prisoners, 

 17 ; source of weakness, 17 ; address of Jefferson Davis 

 to the soldiers, 17 ; bounties, 18 ; numbers in the army, 

 18 ; pay of soldiers, IS ; ages of conscripts, 18 ; debate in 

 Congress on the exemption of farmers; 18 ; supplies of 

 the army, IS ; desertion, &c., IS ; three-years' men re- 

 enlist, 19 ; officers who formerly belonged to the army 

 of the United States, 19, 20. 



Army of the United States. Its numbers, 20 ; rate of deple- 

 tion, 20 ; the conscription measure, 21 ; call for troops 

 in June, 21 ; do. in October, 21 ; different from previous 

 ones, 21; strength of the army in October, 1868, 21; 

 volunteering, 22 ; folly of recruiting by new regiments, 

 22 ; order of the War Department relative to bounties, 

 22 ; furlough to veterans, 23 ; means nsed to promote 

 the efficiency of the army, 23; orders to consolidate 

 regiments, 23 ; difficulties, 24 ; deserters, 24 ; procla- 

 mation of pardon to deserters, 24 ; its effects, 24 ; con- 

 scription act relative to deserters, 25. 



Colored troops, 25 ; employed at Hilton Head and New 

 Orleans, 25 ; acts of Congress relative thereto, 25 ; rela- 

 tive to freedmen, 25 ; action in the House of Represent- 

 atives, 25 ; order of Secretary of War to enlist, 26 ; move- 

 ments in various States under the order, 26 ; Gen. 

 Thomas sent to the southwest, 26; his speech to the 

 troops, 26 ; its effects, 26 ; orders of Gen. Banks to raise 

 a corps tfAfrique, 27 ; order of the Secretary of War to 

 systematize the enlistment, 27 ; Gen. Thomas again sent 

 southwest, 27 ; new policy, 28 ; recruiting in States ex- 

 empted from the emancipation proclamation, S3 ; how 

 managed, 28; number of colored soldiers, 28; pay, 

 28; officers, 28; character of the troops, 23; bravery, 28; 

 testimony of Gen. Banks, 28 ; do. of Gen. Hunter, 99. 



Invalid corps, 29 ; its object, 29 ; numbers, 29 ; exam- 

 ination of officers, 29. 



Ambulance corps, 29 ; orders for, 29 ; organization, 80. 

 Signal corps, 80; telegraph corps, 80; pensioners, SO ; 

 expenditures for fortifications, 30 ; army material pro- 

 vided, 80 ; ordnance material on hand, 80 ; officers re- 

 lieved, 81 ; army corps commanders, 81 ; departments, 

 81 ; officers of the army, 82, 33 ; casualties, 88. 

 Army Operations.~r\sm of the movement against Vicksbnrg, 

 84; surrender of Holly Springs, 84; Gen.Grant's order, 84; 



