the President informing him that he had left the Department in charge of Gen. E. D. Townsend.

May 29. The Senate confirmed the appointment of Gen. Schofield by the following resolution: Resolved, That the Senate advise and consent to the appointment of John M. Schofield to be Secretary of War. The Grand Army of the Republic made preparations to observe Decoration Day.

June 19. The Senate Bill of Thanks to Edwin M. Stanton was passed by the House.

June 24. The treaty with China was ratified by the Senate.

July 17. Congress voted an appropriation of $7,200,000 in specie for the purchase of Alaska. Secretary Seward had concluded a treaty with Russia whereby that power transferred all her possessions in North America to the United States, on March 29, 1867. The Senate ratified this treaty on April 9, and on the 20th of June, 1867, a formal exchange and transfer of title was made. By this purchase about 550,000 square miles were added to the public domain.

The Indian war, which had been continued in the southwest, Southern Colorado, and Indian Territory, since 1864, was brought to a close in the fall of this year by the battle of the Wacheta, in which Black Kettle and many of his warriors were slain.

July 21. It was resolved by the Senate, (the House of Representatives concurring), That the said fourteenth Article is hereby declared to be a part of the Constitution of the United States. The following is the text in full:

ART. 14. SEC. 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States, and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of

the laws.

SEC. 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, representatives in Congress, the executive and judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.

SEC. 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State Legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

SEC. 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned, But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave, but all such debts, obligations, and claims shall be held illegal and void.

SEC. 5. That Congress shall have power to inforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

November 23. Gen. Howard announced that the Freedman's Bureau, except the branches relating to education and collection of money due to soldiers, would be discontinued after January 1, 1869.

February 19. Jefferson Davis and his Sureties were released.

February 26. The Capital of West Virginia was located at Charleston.

VIII. ENGAGEMENTS OF THE REBELLION.

1861.

April 12. Bombardment of Fort Sumter.

April 19. Riot in Baltimore. Three soldiers of the 6th Mass. Reg. were killed, and eight wounded. The troops fired on the mob and killed 11 and wounded quite a number. The first bloodshed in the civil war occurred on the anniversary of the Battle of Lexington.

June 10. Big Bethel, Va.
June 17. Booneville, Mo.

July 10.

July 11.

National repulse. Confederate defeat. Laurel Hill, Va. Confederate defeat.

Rich Mountain, W. Va. Union victory. July 21. Bull Run, Va. Union defeat.

August 10. Wilson Creek, Mo.

victory. Gen. Lyon killed.

Confederate

August 26-30. Forts Hatteras and Clark, N. C., captured.

Sept. 10. Carnifex Ferry, Va. Rosecrans defeated Floyd.

Sept. 12. Cheat Mountain, Va. Union victory. Sept. 20. Lexington, Mo., taken by Gen. Price.

Oct. 9. Santa Rosa Island, Fla. Union victory. Oct. 21. Ball's Bluff, Va. Col. Baker defeated and killed.

Nov. 7. Forts Walker and Beauregard, S. C., captured by Com. Dupont and Gen. T. W. Sherman. Belmont, Mo., indecisive.

1862.

Jan. 19. Mill Spring, Ky. Zollicoffer defeated and killed.

Feb. 6. Fort Henry, Tenn., captured by Com. Foote.

Feb. 7, 8. The Roanoke Island expedition, N. C., -captured by Com. Goldsborough and Gen. Burnside.

Feb. 16. Fort Donaldson, Tenn., surrendered to Gen. Grant.

March 7, 8. Pea Ridge, Ark. Confederate defeat. March 8. Hampton Roads, Va. Merrimac sank the U. S. war ship Cumberland, while the Congress ran ashore to escape capture.

March 9. The Monitor engaged the Merrimac in Hampton Roads and drove her back to Norfolk-the Merrimac was blown up by the Confederates, May 11. April 6, 7. Pittsburgh Landing, or Shiloh, Tenn. Indecisive.

April 7. Island No. 10, with 6,000 prisoners, taken by Gen. Pope.

April 25. New Orleans, La., captured by Com. Farragut; taken possession of, by Gen. Buttler, May 1.

May 5. Williamsburg, Va. Confederate defeat.

May 27. Hanover Court-House, Va. Confederate repulse.

May 31-June 1. Seven Pines and Fair Oaks, Va. Confederate repulse.

June 6. Memphis, Tenn., captured by the Union troops.

June 26-July 1. Mechanicsville, Cold Harbor, Savage's Station, Frazier's Farm, and Malvern Hill, Va., the so-called seven days battles,-Gen. McClelland in his advance on Richmond was compelled to fall back. Confederate victory.

August 5. Baton Rouge, La. feated.

August 9. Cedar Mountain, Va.

Breckinridge de

Banks defeated. August 30. Second Battle of Bull Run, Va. Pope defeated by Lee, who was invading the North. Sept. 14. South Mountain, Md. Union victory. September 15. Harper's Ferry, Va., surrendered with 10,000 to Gen. "Stonewall" Jackson.

Sept. 17. Antietam, Md. * Lee defeated by Gen. McClelland and compelled to give up the invasion of the North.

Sept. 19-20. Iuka, Miss. Confederate defeat. Oct. 3. Corinth, Miss. Confederate defeat. Dec. 13.

ed by Lee.

Fredericksburg, Va. Burnside defeat

1863.

Jan. 3. Stone River, or Murfreesborough, Tenn., (from December 31, 1862.) Confederate defeat.

"I made a solemn vow before God, that if Gen. Lee was driven back from Maryland, I would crown the result by the declaration of freedom to the slaves."-President Lincoln.