CHART X.

1861

ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President. Hannibal Hamlin, Vice-President. 61. Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia,

Louisiana and Texas secede. 61. Kansas admitted. 61. Southern Confederacy formed. 61. Attack on Sumter.

61. Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina and Arkansas secede and join the Confederacy. 61. Seizure of Harper's Ferry and Norfolk. 61. Baftle of Philippi. 61. Union repulse at Big Bethel. 61. Battle of Bull Run. 61. Battle of Wilson's Creek. 61. Battle of Ball's Bluff.

61.  Battle of Belmont.

62.  Battle of Mill Spring.

62. Capture of Fort Donelson.

62. The Monitor and the Merrimac.

62. Battle of Pea Ridge

62. Battle of Shiloh.

62. Capture of New Orleans.

62. McClellan's seven days' battles.

62. Battle of Richmond, Ky.

62. Second battle of Bull Run.

62. Battle of Corinth.

62. Battle of Antietam.

62. Battle of Fredericksburg.

62.  Battle of Stone River.

63.  The Emancipation Proclamation. 63. Battle of Chancellorsville.

63. Battle of Gettysburg. 63. Surrender of Vicksburg. 63. Draft riots in New York. 63. Battle of Chickamauga. 63. Battles of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge.

63.   West Virginia admitted.

64.  Wilderness Battles. 64. Battle of Spottsylvania. 64. Battle of Cold Harbor. 64. Petersburg besieged. 64. Battle of Resaca.

64. Battle of Eenesaw.

64. Battle of Atlanta.

64. Battle of Mobile Bay.

64. Battle of Winchester.

64. Battle of Fisher's Hill.

64. Battle of Cedar Creek.

64. Nevada admitted.

64. Sherman's march to the sea.

64.  Sinking of the Alabama.

65.  Capture of Fort Fisher.

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1865

LINCOLN re-elected President.

Andrew Johnson, Vice-President. 65. Battle of Bentonsville. 65. Battle of Five Forks. 65. Capture of Petersburg. 65. Fall of Richmond. 65. Surrender of Lee. 65. Surrender of Johnston. 65. Lincoln Assassinated, April 14.

ANDREW JOHNSON, President. 66. The Atlantic Cable laid.

66.  Tennessee readmitted.

67.  Nebraska admitted. 67. Purchase of Alaska.

67. Fourteenth Amendment adopted.

67.  Amnesty proclamation.

68.  Impeachment of President Johnson.

65.  Fenian insurrection in

Ireland.

66.  Austro-Prussian War.

66. North German Confed- 1 eration formed.

1869

ULYSSES S. GRANT, President.

Schuyler Colfax, Vice-President.

69.  Pacific Railroad completed.

70.  Fifteenth Amendment adopted.

70.  Population of U. S. 38,558,371.

71.  Chicago burned.

72. Settlement of the Alabama Claims.

72. Settlement of the Northwestern Boundary.

72. William H. Seward died, aged 71.

72. Horace Greeley died, aged 61.

70*-71. Franco-PrussianWar. |

71.  Battle of Sedan. Napoleon III. overthrown, j

72.  KingWilliam proclaimed

Emperor. Rise of French Republic. Thiers, President.

1873

GRANT re-elected President.

Henry Wilson, Vice-President. 73. The Modoc War. 73. The great financial panic.

76. The Custer Massacre.

76. Colorado admitted.

76. The Centennial Exhibition.

1877

RUTHERFORD B. HAYES, Pres't. William A. Wheeler, Vice-Pres't. 77. The Nez Perce War.

77. The Remonetization of Silver.

79.  Resumption of Specie Payments.

80.  Population of U. S. 50,182,525.

77. Russo-Turkish War.

Fall of Turkish power in Europe.

1881

JAMES A. GARFIELD, President. Chester A. Arthur, Vice-President. 81. President Garfield shot, July 2, by Charles J. Guiteau.

81.  His death, September 19. CHESTER A. ARTHUR, President.

82.  Trial and sentence of Guiteau.

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81. Alexander II. of Russia assassinated.

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