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NINETEENTH CENTURY, IMPORTANT EVENTS OP THE. 



June 26, the six days' battle on the Virginia 

 peninsula began. 



July 24, Martin Van Buren died. 



Sept. 14, the battle of South Mountain, Md., was 

 fought. 



Sept. 17, the battle of Antietam, Md., was fought. 



Sept. 22, President Lincoln's preliminary procla- 

 mation of emancipation was issued. 



Oct. 3, the battle of Corinth, Miss., began. 



Oct. 8, the battle of Perryville, Ky., was fought. 



Dec. 13, the battle of Fredericksburg, Va., was 

 fought. 



Dec. 31, the battle of Murfreesboro, Tenn., began. 



1863. 



Jan. 1, President Lincoln's final emancipation 



proclamation was issued. 

 April 21, the State of West Virginia was officially 



proclaimed by the President. 

 May 2, the battle of Chancellorsville, Va., began. 

 July 1, 2, 3, the battle at Gettysburg, Pu., was 



fought. 

 July 4, Vicksburg, Miss., was surrendered to Gen. 



Grant, with its garrison of more than 31,000 



Confederate soldiers. 

 July 13, the draft riots broke out in New York 



city. 

 Nov. 2, the great organ in the Music Hall, Boston, 



was first heard by the public. 

 Nov. 23, 24, 25, the battle at Chattanooga was 



fought. 

 Dec. 24, William Makepeace Thackeray died. 



1864. 



Feb. 20, the battle of Olustee, Fla., was fought 

 April 18, Diippel, in Schleswig, was captured by 



the Prussians, and this ended the short war by 



which the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein 



were taken from Denmark. 

 May 2, Giacomo Meyerbeer died. 

 May 5, 6, the battle of the Wilderness' was fought, 



in Virginia. 

 May 12, the battle of Spottsylvania, Va., was 



fought. 



May 14, the battle of Resaca, Ga., began. 

 May 18, Nathaniel Hawthorne died. 

 June 3, the battle of Cold Harbor, Va., was fought. 

 June 7, the Philadelphia Sanitary Fair was opened. 

 June 13, the fugitive slave law was repealed by 



the House of Representatives. 

 June 19, the Confederate cruiser Alabama was 



sunk off Cherbourg, France, by the United 



States steamer Kearsarge. 

 July 9, the battle of the Monocacy was fought, for 



the protection of Washington. 

 July 22, the battle of Atlanta, Ga., was fought. 

 Aug. 5, the battle of Mobile Bay was fought. 

 Sept. 2, Sherman's army captured Atlanta. 

 Sept. 18, the battle of Opequan, Va., was fought. 

 Oct. 11, the people of Maryland voted to abolish 



slavery. Chief-Justice Roger B. Taney, a native 



of that State, who was the author of the Dred 



Scott decision, died the next day. 

 Oct. 19, the battle of Cedar Creek, Va.. was fought. 

 Oct. 27, the Confederate ram Albemarle was blown 



up with a torpedo by Lieut, dishing. 

 Oct. 31, Nevada was admitted as a State. 

 Nov. 8, President Lincoln was re-elected. 

 Nov. 15, Gen. Sherman began his march to the sea. 

 Nov. 30, the battle of Franklin, Tenn., was fought. 

 Dec. 15, 16, the battle of Nashville, Tenn., was 



fought. 



1865. 



Jan. 11, Missouri passed a law freeing all its 

 slaves. 



Jan. 15, Fort Fisher, N. C., was captured by 

 United States troops commanded by Gen. Terry 

 and a fleet commanded by Admiral Porter. 



Jan. 20, Gen. Sherman began his march through 

 the Carolinas. 



March 19, the battle of Bentonville, N. C., was 

 fought. 



April 1, the battle of Five Forks, Va., was fought. 



April 3, Richmond, Va., was captured by forces 

 under Gen. Godfrey Weitzel. 



April 9, Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his army 

 at Appomattox, Va., to Gen. Grant. 



April 14, President Lincoln was assassinated. 



April 26, Gen. Joseph E. Johnston surrendered 

 his army to Gen. Sherman at Durham Sta- 

 tion, N. C. 



Nov. 2, a national peace thanksgiving was held. 



Dec. 18, the ratification of the thirteenth amend- 

 ment to the United States Constitution was 

 officially announced. 



William Booth organized the Salvation Army. 



1866. 



April 6, the first post of the Grand Army of the 



Republic was formed at Decatur, 111. 

 April 10, Henry Bergh organized the Society for 



the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 

 May 29, Gen. Winfield Scott died. 

 June 2, an engagement took place at Limestone 



Ridge between Fenians and Canadians. 

 June 13, the fourteenth amendment to the United 



States Constitution was proposed by Congress. 

 June 25, a commercial convention betw y een the 



United States and Japan was signed. 

 July 3, the battle of Koeniggratz, in Bohemia, 



was fought. 



July 4, a great fire occurred in Portland, Me. 

 July 27, permanent telegraphic communication 



was established between Europe and America 



by Atlantic cable. 



1867. 



Jan. 30, the Evangelical Alliance of the United 

 States was organized in New York. 



Feb. 5, the city of Mexico was evacuated by the 

 French. 



March 1. Nebraska was admitted as a State. 



March 29, the British North American act, which 

 provided for federation of the Canadian colonies, 

 received the Queen's assent. 



April 1, a world's fair was opened in Paris. 



Oct. 9, Alaska was formally transferred from Rus- 

 sia to the United States. United States forces 

 took possession of the country on the 18th. 



1868. 



May 30, this date was established and first ob- 

 served as Memorial or Decoration Day. 



June 1, James Buchanan died. 



July 28, the ratification of the fourteenth amend- 

 ment to the United States Constitution w:i-< 

 officially announced. 



Nov. 13, Gioacchino Rossini died. 



1869. 



March 8, Hector Berlioz died. 



May 10, the Union and Central Pacific Railroads 

 were joined at Promontory Point, Utah, making 

 the first transcontinental line. 



June 15, a great musical jubilee of five days, com- 

 memorating the restoration of peace, was begin 

 in Boston. 



July 23, the American end of the Franco-Amer- 

 ican cable was landed at Duxbury, Mass. 



Oct. 8, Franklin Pierce died. 



Nov. 16, the Suez Canal was opened for commerce;. 



Nov. 25, Giulia Grisi died. 



