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The British fleet on Lake Champlain, 95 guns, Commodore Downie, captured by the American fleet, of 86 guns, Com- modore MacDonough, and their army defeated at Plattsburg, by Gen. Ma- comb, Sept. 11.
British expelled from Pensacola, by Jack- son, Nov. 7.
Battle on Lake Borgue, La., Dec. 14. Battle below New Orleans, Dec. 22. Jethro Wood patents his own plow. Perkins makes first steel plates for en- graving.
Massacre at Fert Dearbern, (Chicago) by Indians.
Attack on Baltimore.
Bombardment of Fort McHenry. British defeated, and Gen. Ross killed, Sept. 14.
Treaty of peace with Great Britain signed, at Ghent, Dec. 24.
1815 Battle of New Orleans. Defeat of the British, with the loss of
their leader, Gen. Packenham, by Gen. Jackson, Jan. 8.
Capture of the frigate "President" by the British squadron, Jan. 15. Treaty of Ghent ratified by the Senate, Feb. 17.
the "Cyane"
"Constitution" captures and "Levant," Feb. 20.
War declared with Algiers.
The "Penguin" captured by the "Hor- net," March 23.
Commodore Decatur sent against Algiers. Decatur captures Algerine frigate, June 17.
Hunt first manufactures axes.
Terrific gale and flood in New England, Sept. 23.
1816 Indiana admitted as a State.
Second United States bank chartered. Steam first applied to paper making. Election of James Monroe, President. Mrs. Emma Willard opens her girls' school at Troy.
This was known as the year without a summer.
1817 Illinois admitted into the Uriun.
Pensions granted revolutionary soldiers. Alabama.
Mississippi admitted into the Union. Harper Bros, publishing house founded. Clymer invents Columbian printing press.
New England Deaf and Dumb Asylum founded.
1818 Foundation of the new Capitol laid, at Washington, Aug. 24.
Pensacola, Fla., captured from the Spanish. by Jackson.
1819 The "Savannah," the first steam packet that crosses the Atlantic, makes a voy- age to Liverpool. The first permanent Lodge of Odd Fel- lows founded, in Baltimore, April 26. Alabama admitted into the Union, Dec. 14
1820 Passage of the Missouri Compromise. Florida ceded to the United States by Spain for $5,000,000 Maine admitted into the Union, March 15. Heated discussion in Congress on the slavery question. Percussion caps for guns first intro- duced.
Re-election of James Monroe as Presi- dent.
Petroleum first discovered in Ohio. Macadamized roads first introduced. Death of Daniel Boone.
1821 Missouri admitted into the Union, Aug. 10 Jackson takes possession of Florida, July 21 Burnett first introduces lithography. Straw hats first made from American straw.
1822 The United States acknowledge the inde- pendence of the South American Re- publics.
First English firm in California opens house at Monterey. Death of Maj .- Gen. Stark. First cotton mill built in Lowell. Elliott makes first platform scales. War with the Cuban pirates.
Gas first successfully introduced in Bos- ton.
1823 The Monroe doctrine, June 18. First gas company in New York: First teachers' seminary opened in Con- cord, Vt.
1824 The principles of Robert Owen preached. Pins first made by machinery. First reformatory school founded in New York.
Act passed to protect and encourage cot- ton manufactures.
Convention with Great Britain to sup- press slave trade, March 13.
Convention with Russia in relation to northwest boundary, April 5. Arrival of Lafayette on a visit to the U. S.
Election of John Quincy Adams as Presi- dent.
1825 The Capitol at Washington completed. First edge tool manufactory established, Smith, a trapper, performs the first over- land journey to California, and found Folsom.
Departure of Lafayette for France, Sept. 7.
1826 Deaths of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. Convention with Great Britain concern- ing indemnities.
Fiftieth anniversary of American Inde- pendence, July 4.
Great anti-mason excitement. Abduction of. William Morgan.
Baron Von Humboldt visits the United. States.
Opening of the Erie Canal, Oct. 26. Duel between Henry Clay and John Randolph.
Delano's first fire-proof safes.
1827 Treaty with Creek Indians concluded. Treaty with the Kansas Indians, and the great and little Osages.
Treaty with the Republic of Colombia. Continued intense excitement over the "Morgan affair"
1828
"the First locomotive introduced from Eng- land, by the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company.
Baltimore and Ohio railroad commenced. Congress makes provision for officers of the revolutionary war.
Democrat and Republican first chosen by their respective political parties .. General Jackson elected President.
Treaty of Peace with Brazil and Buenos Ayres.
Planing mill first patented.
1829 Andrew Jackson, President, opposes the project to recharter the Bank of the United States.
Independence of Mexico recognized. Webster's great speech in Congress, Jan. 26.
Virginia passes resolution against Tariff bill.
First Asylum for the Blind established. First Horticultural Society formed.
Removal of 700 officeholders by Jackson.
1830 Commercial treaty with Turkey. South Carolina asserts "States Rights". The Mormon church founded by Joseph Building of the South Carolina railroad. Smith, April 6. American Institute of Learning founded. Great debate between Webster and Hayne.
1831 Intense Tariff and Free trade excitement. Garrison starts the "Liberator" anti- slavery paper.
Death of James Monroe, July 4. Manning mowing machines patented. Guthrie discovers chloroform.
Howe invents first practical pin machine. Buttons first made by machinery.
Western College of Teachers established. President Jackson vetoes the Bank Bill. New protective tariff measure, passed. South Carolina nullification movement.
U. S. frigate "Potomac," attacks Qualla Batoo, Feb. 6.
First case of asiatic cholera in U. S. June 21.
Black Hawk war, and his capture, Aug. 27.
University of New York organized, Sept. 26. Re-election of Andrew Jackson as Presi- Death of Charles Carroll, last surviving dent. signer of Declaration of Independence.
1832 Morse invents electric magnet telegraph. Cholera in New York, 3,400 deaths.
Fairbank's Scale first patented.
1833 The President removes the public de- posits from the Bank of the United States. President Jackson begins his second term, March 4.
The Southern States hold a states-right Convention.
Clay's Compromise Tariff law passed. Gayler invents first practical safe. Death of John Randolph, May 24.
Removal of several Indian tribes west of the Mississippi. Hoe's double-cylinder printing-press con- structed.
First successful reaper patented.
Ericsson invents the caloric engine.
1834 Congress passes a vote of censure against the President for removing bank de- posits; subsequently expunged. Lucifer matches first made.
Walter Hunt invents first sewing ma- chine, but fails to perfect and patent. Dr. Howe invents raised alphabet for use of the blind.
1835 Great fire in New York.
Congress establishes branch mints in ana. Georgia, North Carolina, and Louisi- Government purchase Cherokee bonds for $5,200,000.
New York Herald established by Ben- nett. Death of Chief Justice Marshall, July 6. Roger Brooks Taney, appointed Chief Justice.
Seminole Indian war renewed.
Gas first introduced into Philadelphia. Brown makes first gold pens with dia- mond points. Guano becomes an article of commerce in the U. S.
Massacre of Maj. Dade and his command in Florida.
1836 The national debt virtually paid. Arkansas admitted into the Union, Battle of San Jacinto, Texas; Santa Anna defeated and a prisoner, April 21. Bequest of James Smithson to the U. S. of $515,169.
Smithsonian Institute at Washington founded.
Death of James Madison, June 28. Governor Call, of Georgia, invades Sem- inole country.
Sam Houston elected President of Texas, Oct. 22.
Martin Van Buren elected President. Burning of the Patent and General Post- office at Washington.
Texas declared independent.
Sam Colt invents the revolver.
First National Temperance Convention held at Saratoga.
Adams' great debate for the right of petition. Death of Aaron Burr.
Sioux and Winnebago Indians removed beyond the Mississippi.
Scott subdues the Creek Indians.
1837 Great financial crash and panic through- out the country.
Harnden originates the express business. Michigan admitted into the Union.
1838 First zinc produced in the country Wilkes' exploring expedition to the South Pole.
United States Bank suspends specie pay- ment, Oct. 5.
Mormon war in Missouri.
1840 Intense political excitement.
The Log Cabin campaign.
Election of William Henry Harrison as President.
Goodyear invents vulcanized rubber. The first steam fire engine constructed by Ericsson. Sub-Treasury bill becomes a law, June 30. First Washingtonian Society founded. Adams' Express Company organized. Wilkes discovers Antarctic continent. William H. Harrison inaugurated, March 4, dies April 4; John Tyler, Vice-Presi- dent, inaugurated President, April 6. McLeod difficulty.
Webster's (Noah) Dictionary first pub- lished.
Sub-Treasury bill repealed, Aug. 9. Bankruptcy Act becomes a law, Aug. 18. Imprisonment for debts due the govern- ment abolished.
Greeley establishes the New York Tri- bune.
1842 Kingford produces the first sample of pure corn starch. Mutiny on United States. brig of war "Somers" instigated by Midshipman
Spencer.
The Fourier community excitement. Fremont's expedition to the Rocky Moun- tains.
Ashburton or first Washington Treaty signed, with England, Aug. 9. Bunker Hill monument completed. Termination of war with Seminoles. Lucifer matches first made by machinery. President vetoes bill for National Bank. Dorr rebellion in Rhode Island. Bankrupt Act repealed, March 3. Death of Dr. Channing, Oct. 2.
1843 William Miller and the "Millerites." $30,000 voted by Congress to aid Morse to establish telegraph lines.
Fremont exprores Columbia River, Wil- lamet Valley, and Klamath Lake. Great comet visible during the day. Death of Noah Webster.
Wilder's patent for fire-proof safe.
1844 Explosion of the gun, the "peace-mak-
er," killing the Secretaries of Navy and State.
Commercial treaty with China. First telegraph line from Washington to Baltimore.
First anti-slavery candidate nominated for the presidency.
The "Midas," first American steamboat, rounds Cape of Good Hope .. James K. Polk elected President. Mormon war in Illinois, murder of Joseph Smith; Brigham Young se- lected as his successor.
First telegraph line.
1845 Texas annexed by Act of Congress, Mex- ico takes offense.
Florida and Iowa admitted into the Union.
War declared.by Mexico, June 4. Naval school at Annapolis opened. Elias Howe produces his first sewing machine. Great fire in Pittsburgh.
Serious fire in New York, 300 buildings burned. Death of Justice Joseph Story. First manufacture of files.
Zachary Taylor, with 4,000 troops, ad- vanced to Corpus Christi, Texas. Negotiations toward purchase of -San Domingo.
Death of Andrew Jackson, June 8. Free Soil party originated.
1846 Northwestern boundary fixed at 498. Hostilities begin in Mexico. Battles of Palo Alto, May 8, and Resaca de la Palma, May 9; victory of Gen. Taylor.
Matamoras taken, May 18.
New Tariff bill passed, July 28. President vetoes River Harbor bill, Aug. 3. "Wilson Proviso" against extension of slavery passes the House.
Gun-cotton invented. Great fire in Louisville. Ether first used as an anesthetic by Dr. Jackson.
1846 Gen. Kearney takes possession of New Mexico, Aug. 18. Commodore Stockton blockades Mexican ports on Pacific coast. Monterey taken by Gen. Taylor, Sept. 24. Eight days' armistice granted. California expedition, under Stephenson, sails from New York, Sept. 26. Tobasco, Mexico, bombarded by Perry, Oct. 25.
Tampico taken by Gen. Conner, Nov. 14. Kearney defeats Mexicans at San Pas- qual, Dec. 6.
Col. Doniphan defeats Mexicans at Bra- zito, Dec. 25.
Gen. Taylor relieved by Gen. Scott. The Mormons driven from Nauvoo, Ill. Iowa admitted as a State.
1847 Kearney victorious at San Gabriel and Mesa, Cal., Jan. 8, 9.
Mexican Congress resolves to raise loan of $15,000,000 on property of the clergy, Jan. 8.
Revolt of Mexicans in New Mexico against United States, Jan. 14.
Defeat of insurgents at Canada, New Mexico, Jan. 24. Battle of Buena Vista, Feb. 23; Taylor defeats Santa Anna. Battle of Sacramento; defeat of Mex- icans, Feb. 28.
Gen. Kearney declares California a part of the United States, March 1. Vera Cruz taken by army and navy, March 28.
Alvarado capitulates, April 2.
Battle of Cerro Gordo, April 8; Scott defeats Mexicans; also at Contreras, Aug. 20.
Molino del Rey taken, Sept. 8.
Gen. Scott enters the city of Mexico, Sept. 15.
1848 Death of John Quincy Adams, Feb. 21. Gold discovered in California, March, Oneida Community, New York, estab- lished.
Wisconsin admitted into the Union, May 29
Missouri Compromise repealed. Election of Zachary Taylor as President. Corner stone of Washington Monument laid.
Oregon Territorial bill passed, Aug. 13. First receipt of California gold at United States mint, Dec. 8.
Treaty signed with Mexico, Feb. 2. Upper California ceded to United States. Mexicans unsuccessfully besiege Pueblo, held by Americans, Sept. 13 to Oct. 12 Huamantia taken by Americans, Oct. 9. Guyannes captured, Oct. 20. Great excitement at Rochester, N. Y., caused by "Spirit rappings." Food sent to starving Ireland.
Los Angeles, Cal., taken by Kearney, and a system of government organ- ized. '
1848 Great fire in St. Louis.
Prof. Webster murders Dr. Parkman, Nov. 23. United States gold dollar first coined. California adopts a constitution prohib iting slavery.
Death of James K. Polk, June 15.
1849 Filibustering expeditions against Cu. forbidden by the President.
Visit of Father Mathew, the tempera oc. advocate. Capt. Minie invents the Minie conical bullet.
Mason and Dixon's line surveyed.
Cholera visits the United States, severe at Cincinnati and St. Louis.
California Constitution formed at Mon-" terey.
Great riot at Astor Place Opera House, New York.
1850 Treaty with England for a transit way across Panama.
French Ambassador dismissed frem Washington.
Death of John C. Calhoun, March 31. Congress passes the Oregon Donation Law.
Uncle Tom's Cabin first published. Watches first made by machinery. Fugitive Slave Law passed. Death of Zachary Taylor, July 9. Grinnell Arctic Expedition sails. California admitted as a Free State, Sept 9.
New Mexico and Utah organized as ter- ritories, Sept. 9.
Visit of Jenny Lind to America, Sept. 12. Dahlgren invents the cast-iron gun.
1851 Appearance of the great sea serpent. Completion of Erie railroad. Corner-stone of Capitol extension laid, July 4.
First Asylum for Idiots established in New York.
California Vigilance Committee formed. American yacht victorious at regatta in London, Eng. Frightful catastrophe at .public school building, New York.
Congressional Library destroyed by fire, Dec. 24.
1852 Dispute with England about the fish- eries. Expedition to Japan, under Com. Perry. First street-railway in New York. Deaths of Henry Clay, June 26, and Daniel Webster, Oct. 24. Treaty of Commerce with Chili. Branch mint established in San Fran- cisco.
Franklin Pierce elected President.
1853 Crystal Palace, New York, opened. Treaty with Mexico, for purchase of Arizona. Treaty with Russia ..
Explorations for a transcontinental rail- way. Children's Aid Society, New York, Walker's filibustering expedition to So- Yellow fever in New York. nora, Mexico. founded.
1864 Commercial Treaty with Japan signed, March 31.
American, or Know-Nothing Society formed.
Loss of the steamship Arctic.
Cubans seize American mail-steamer Black Warrior, Feb. 28.
First railway from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi, the Rock Island.
American ship "Cayne" bombards Grey- town, Central America, on refusal to pay for property destroyed, June 12. Invention of the Iron Tower for iron- clad vessels, by Ericsson.
Reciprocity Treaty with England; settle- ment of the Fishery question, Aug. 2. Bill passed organizing Kansas and Nebraska as Territories, repealing the Compromise of 1820, which excluded slavery from the entire Louisiana pur- chase, May 24.
Massachusetts Aid Society send out set- tlers to Kansas.
A. H. Reeder, of Pennsylvania, ap- pointed Governor of Kansas.
1855 Territorial Legislature of Kansas meets at Shawnee, July; great emigration to Kansas.
Free State men meet in convention at Topeka and form a Free State constitu- tion, Oct. 23.
Hostilities between the Free and. Slave State settlers begin.
Sioux Indians defeated by Gen. Harney. Paraguayans attack United States steamer, "Water-Witch."
Suspension Completion of Niagara
Bridge
Court Claims established.
William Walker unsuccessfully invades Nicaragua.
Dispute with Great Britain concerning recruiting for the Crimea army.
Copyright, 1906, by Geo. A. Ogle & Co.
1841
First railroad built at Quincy, Massa- chusetts, and operated by horse power. Passage of the Protective Tariff Bill. Sandpaper and emery first made.
Copper discovered in Michigan. Texas asks for annexation.
3802
Resignation of George Washington. John Adams inaugurated as President. Treaty with France annulled. War with France threatened.
1832
Jackson subdues Indians in Georgia and Erie Canal commenced.
SUPPLEMENT XXI.
ANCIENT, MEDIEVAL AND MODERN HISTORY.
1855 British discovery ship "Resolute" aban- doned in Arctic sea, brought to New London.
1856 Hoosac Tunnel begun.
Victory of John Brown at Ossawatomie, Kan.
Republican party formed. Alden invents type-setting machine. Rock Island bridge, across the Missis- sippi, opened, April 11.
Affray at Panama between passengers and natives, April 15.
Page makes first wood type by ma- chinery.
President declares creation of free state government in Kansas an act of re- bellion.
Brooks' assault upon Charles Sumner. Dismissal of British envoy at Washing- ton, May 28.
Introduction of sorghum, or Chinese sugar-cane.
Dudley observatory, Albany, inaugur- ated, Aug. 28. The government purchases the "Reso- lute," refitted and presented to Brit- ish Government. Loom for weaving Axminster carpets first patented.
Election of James Buchanan as Presi- dent.
1857 Organization of the Fenian Brotherhood. Settlement of the Central American ques- tion.
Death of Elisha Kent Kane, Arctic ex- plorer, Feb. 16. Robert J. Walker appointed Territorial Governor of Kansas. Taney renders Dred Scott decision, March 6.
First attempt to lay Atlantic cable. Alden secures patent for condensed milk.
Great financial crash.
New York, Boston and Philadelphia banks suspend, Oct. 14, 15.
Banks resume specie payments, Dec. 12, 14.
Murder of Dr. Burdell; arrest and trial of Mrs. Cunningham, his mistress. Foundering of the "Central America" off Cape Hatteras; over 400 lives and $2,- 000,000 lost.
Great religious revival throughout the country.
Troubles with the Mormons in Utah; Col. Johnson, with a military force, sent out; Brigham Young forbids any armed force entering Salt Lake City; Mormon troops ordered to hold them- selves in readiness; martial law de- cleared, Sept. 15.
1858 Dispute with England respecting the right of search.
Completion of the first Atlantic tele- graph, Aug.
Death of Thomas H. Benton, April 15. Congress passes bill admitting Kansas under pro-slavery constitution, Aug. Exciting campaign of Lincoln and Doug- 30 las in Illinois. Minnesota admitted as a State, May 18. . Seward announces his "irrepressible con- flict" doctrine.
Kansas rejects the pro-slavery constitu- tion by overwhelming majority, Aug. 3. First message across the Atlantic cable, from Victoria to the President, Aug. 16. Peruvians capture two American ves- Burning of steamship "Austria," Ham- sels burg to New York; nearly 500 lives lost
1859
The Island of San Juan, near Vancouv- er's Island, occupied by United States troops.
The Fenian organization perfected. Treaty with Paraguay signed, Feb. 10. Oregon admitted at a State, Feb. 14. Drake bores first oil well at Titusville, Pa.
Great storm in the Northern and South- ern States.
Daniel E. Sickles shoots Philip Barton Key, Feb. 27. Kansas Free State party, frame a State constitution at Wyandotte.
Vicksburg Convention declares in favor of reopening slave trade, May 11. Publication of Worcester's Unabridged Dictionary.
San Juan Island occupied by General Harney, July 9.
Appearance of the potato bug.
Election of Republican officers in Kan- sas, Dec. 6. Comstock Great Bonanza Mine pur- chased for an Indian -pony and ' a quantity of whisky. Treaty with Mexico signed.
Grand Embassy from Japan, with treaty of peace, etc.
Tour of the Prince of Wales.
Hall's expedition to the Polar Sea.
Arrival at New York of the Great East- ern, June 28.
1860 Election of Mr. Pennington as Speaker of the House.
Abraham Lincoln elected President, Nov. 6. South Carolina passes the "Ordi- nance of Secession," being the first State of the Union to secede, Dec. 20. Meeting of Senatorial Committee of Thir- teen, Dec. 21.
Major Anderson transfers his command from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter. The Parrott Gun invented by Robert R. Parrott.
1861 Mississippi secedes, Jan. 9. Florida secedes, Jan. 10. Alabama secedes, Jan. 11.
South Carolina troops fire upon the "Star of the West."
Georgia secedes, Jan. 18. Louisiana secedes, Jan. 26. Texas secedes, Feb. 1.
Peace Convention assembled at Wash- ington, Feb. 4.
Provisional Government of Confederate States meet at Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 4th.
Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, Presi- dent, Feb. 8.
Abraham Lincoln inaugurated President of United States, March 4.
Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, bom- barded-being commencement of hostil- ities in the Civil War, April 12. Lincoln calls for 75,000 volunteers, April 15.
Proclamation announcing blockade of Southern ports, April 17.
Federal troops attacked in Baltimore, April 19.
Destruction of stores at Norfolk Navy Yard by Union Commander, April 20. Maryland refuses to secede, April 27. Ellsworth shot at Alexandria by Jack- son, May.
Missouri turns over to Confederates en- tire control of financial and military resources of the State, May 2.
Government call for 42,000 three years' volunteers, May 3.
Arkansas secedes from the Union, May 6. Capt. Lyon receives surrender of Fort Jackson, May 10.
Baltimore occupied by General Butler, May 13.
North Carolina secedes from the Union, May 20. Butler in command at Fortress Monroe, May 22. .
Advance of Union forces into Virginia, May 24.
Death of Stephen A. Douglas, June 3. Tennessee secedes from the Union, June 8, East Tennessee opposing it. Battle of Big Bethel, Va., June 10. Congress meets in extraordinary session, July 4.
Battle near Carthage, Mo., July 5.
1861 Privateer "Sumter" escapes to sea, from New Orleans, July 7. Battle of Carrick's Ford, W. Va .; Con- federate General Garnett killed. Battle at Romney, Va., June 11. West Virginia admitted as a State, June 11.
Battle at Rich Mountain; Confederates, under Pegram, defeated by Rosecrans, July 11.
Battle near Centreville, Va., July 18. Destruction of the Confederate "Petrel" by frigate "St. Lawrence."
Maryland invaded by Stonewall Jackson, July.
Battle of Bull Run; Union forces, un- der McDowell, defeated; Union killed
and wounded, 1,490; Confederates,
1,593 killed and wounded, July 21. Gen. Mcclellan assumes command of army in Virginia and on the Potomac. Battle of Laurel Hill, July 22. Battle of Drug Spring, Mo., under Gen- eral Lyon; Southern forces defeated. Battle of Athens, Mo., under Gen. Lyon; Confederates defeated, Aug. 5.
Battle of Wilson's Creek, Mo .; 5,200 men, under Gens. Lyon and Sigel, at- tack 24,000, under Gens. McCulloch, Price, etc .; Lyon killed; defeat of Si- gel, Aug. 10.
President Lincoln's non-intercourse proc- lamation, Aug. 16.
Gen. Butler and Commodore Stringham take Forts Hatteras and Clark on North Carolina coast, Aug. 28. Fort Morgan abandoned by Confederates, Aug. 30.
Fremont issues proclamation freeing slaves in Missouri, Aug. 31. Battle of Carnifex Ferry, Gens. Rose- crans and Floyd, Sept. 10. Destruction of privateer "Judah," Sept. 13
Repulse of Confederates at Cheat Moun- tain, W. Va.
Battle of Lexington, Mo .; Col. Mulli- gan defends for four days against 26,- 000 Confederates, but is forced to sur- render; loss, 2,500 prisoners, and a large amount of gold.
Battle of Greenbrier, Va .; success of Union forces, Oct. 3.
Confederate "Savannah" captured by U. S. brig "Perry."
Wilson Zouaves repulsed at Santa Rosa Island, Oct. 9.
Confederate privateer "Nashville" es- capes from Charleston, S. C., Oct. 11. Repulse of Confederate ram and five ships at South West Pass, Oct. 12. Escape of Mason and Slidell Charleston. from Battle of Fredericktown, Mo .; flight of Jeff Thompson, Oct. 21.
Recapture of Lexington, Mo., by Union troops.
Gen. Sherman appointed to the com- mand of Kentucky forces. Battle of Ball's Bluff; Col. Baker killed, Oct. 21.
Zagonyi defeats Confederates at Spring- field, Mo., Oct: 29.
Gen. Scott resigns command of army. Gen. Mcclellan succeeds him.
Soldiers' Aid Society formed at Detroit, Nov. 1.
Commodore Wilkes, of "San Jacinto," takes Southern Commissioners, Mason and Slidell, from British steamer "Trent," in West Indian waters.
Port Royal bombarded, Nov. 7.
Battle of Belmont; Grant's first fight. Capture of Tybee Island, commanding Savannah, taken Dec. 20.
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