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“I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
After receiving the oath and being declared President of the United States, Mr. Johnson remarked:
“Gentlemen: I must be permitted to say that I have been almost overwhelmed by the announcement of the sad event which has so recently occurred. I feel incompetent to perform duties so important and responsible as those which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me. As to an indication of any policy which may be pursued by me in the administration of the Government, I have to say that must be left for development as the Administration progresses. The message or declaration must be made by the acts as they transpire. The only assurance that I can now give of the future is reference to the past. The course which I have taken in the past in connection with this rebellion must be regarded as a guarantee of the future. My past public life, which has been long and laborious, has been founded, as I in good conscience believe, upon a great principle of right, which lies at the basis of all things. The best energies of my life have been spent in endeavoring to establish and perpetuate the principles of free government, and I believe that the government, in passing through its present perils, will settle down upon principles consonant with popular rights, more permanent and enduring than heretofore. I must be permitted to say, if I understand the feelings of my own heart, I have long labored to ameliorate and elevate the condition of the great mass of the American people. Toil and an honest advocacy of the great principles of free government have been my lot. The duties have been mine—the consequences are God’s. This has been the foundation of my political creed. I feel that in the end the government will triumph, and that these great principles will be permanently established. In conclusion, gentlemen, let me say that I want your encouragement and countenance. I shall ask and rely upon you and others in carrying the government through its present perils. I feel in making this request that it will be heartily responded to by you and all other patriots and lovers of the rights and interests of a free people.”
At the conclusion of the above remarks the President received the kind wishes of the friends by whom he was surrounded. A few
moments were devoted to conversation. All were deeply impressed with the solemnity of the occasion.
THE CLOSE OF SHERMAN’S CAMPAIGN. SURRENDER
OF GENERAL JOHNSTON.
In the latter part of March and the first days of April, 1865, the rebel army under General J. E. Johnston was encamped in the neighborhood of Smithfield, North Carolina, and was protecting Raleigh. General Sherman’s forces were at Goldsboro’, and in that vicinity. On the 6th of April the news of the Virginia victories reached General Sherman. Four days later, on the 10th inst., at daybreak, his army commenced its final advance against the enemy. MajorGeneral H. W. Slocum took the two direct roads for Smithfield; Major-General O. O. Howard made a circuit by the right, and feigned up the Weldon road, to disconcert the enemy’s cavalry; Generals Terry and Kilpatrick moved on the west side of the Neuse river, and aimed to reach the rear of the enemy between Smithfield and Raleigh. General Schofield followed General Slocum, in support. All the columns met, within six miles of Goldsboro’, more or less cavalry, with the usual rail barricades, which were swept away as chaff; and by 10 A. M. of the 11th, the Fourteenth corps entered Smithfield, the Twentieth corps close at hand. Johnston had rapidly retreated across the Neuse river, and, having his railroad to lighten up his trains, could retreat faster than the National forces could pursue. The rains had also set in, making the resort to corduroy absolutely necessary to pass even ambulances. The enemy had burned the bridge at Smithfield, but, as soon as possible, Major-General Slocum got up his pontoons, and crossed over a division of the Fourteenth corps. News of the surrender of Lee’s army, at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, was here received, and was announced to the armies in orders, creating universal joy. “Not an officer or soldier of my armies,” says General Sherman, “but expressed a pride and satisfaction that it fell to the lot of the armies of the Potomac and
James so gloriously to overwhelm and capture the entire army that had held them so long in check; and their success gave us new impulse to finish up our task.”
Marching still onward in rapid pursuit, General Sherman’s soldiers passed through Raleigh, on the 13th. Johnston was at Greensboro’, and his army was retreating from Hillsboro’, on all the roads leading to the former point.
Such was the position of affairs, when General Sherman received the first communication from his adversary, in reference to terms of capitulation. At noon, on the 17th, the two commanders met.
Says General Sherman: “Our interview was frank and soldier-like, and he gave me to understand that further war on the part of the Confederate troops was folly; that the ‘cause’ was lost, and that every life sacrificed after the surrender of Lee’s army was the highest possible crime. He admitted that the terms conceded to General Lee were magnanimous, and all he could ask; but he did want some general concessions that would enable him to allay the natural fears and anxieties of his followers, and enable him to maintain his control over them until they could be got back to the neighborhood of their homes, thereby saving the State of North Carolina the devastation which would result from turning his men loose and unprovided on the spot, and our pursuit across the State.
“He also wanted to embrace in the same general proposition the fate of all the Confederate armies that remained in existence. I never made any concession as to his own army, or assumed to deal finally and authoritatively in regard to any other; but it did seem to me that there was presented a chance for peace that might be deemed valuable to the government of the United States, and was at least worth the few days that would be consumed in reference. To push an enemy whose commander had so frankly and honestly confessed his inability to cope with me, were cowardly, and unworthy the brave men I led.”
On the 18th, the two Generals again met, and agreed upon a basis of terms for capitulation of the rebel army, to be referred to the President of the United States; and, in the mean time, a truce was declared between the belligerents. General Sherman improved the delay by rushing on the work on the railroad to Raleigh, and thus strengthening himself for battle—if battle should come. On the 23d,
General Sherman learned that the government—President Lincoln being dead—disapproved of his basis for Johnston’s capitulation, and ordered the truce to end. He immediately notified his opponent, to that effect, and that the truce would end at noon on the 26th. On the night of the 25th, General Sherman received a letter from General Johnston, asking for another interview. By this time General Grant had arrived at Raleigh, and was in communication with General Sherman. The interview was granted; and, on the 26th of April, at 2 o’clock, Generals Sherman and Johnston met, and signed the articles of capitulation, by which the latter surrendered his whole army to the former.
General Sherman’s conduct, at this stage of the war, has been made the subject of adverse criticism by official persons of high station. These pages, however, have not space enough for the details of this controversy. Yet it should be said, in justice to one of the greatest warriors of history, that, throughout all his negotiations, and down to the close of his connection with the war, General Sherman’s conduct was that of a patriot, a soldier, and a gentleman. The terms finally allowed to General Johnston were the same that had previously been allowed to General Lee.
The following is General Sherman’s farewell address to his army:—
“H
M D M , }
“In the Field, Washington, D. C., May 30, 1865. }
“The general commanding announces to the Armies of the Tennessee and Georgia that the time has come for us to part. Our work is done, and armed enemies no longer defy us. Some of you will be retained in service until further orders. And now that we are about to separate, to mingle with the civil world, it becomes a pleasing duty to recall to mind the situation of National affairs when, but a little more than a year ago, we were gathered about the twining cliffs of Lookout Mountain, and all the future was wrapped in doubt and uncertainty. Three armies had come together from distant fields, with separate histories, yet bound by one common cause the union of our country and the perpetuation of the government of our inheritance. There is no need to recall to your memories Tunnel Hill, with its Rocky Face Mountain, and Buzzard Roost Gap, with the ugly forts of Dalton behind. We were in earnest, and paused not for danger and difficulty, but dashed through Snake Creek Gap, and fell on Resaca, then on to the Etowah, to Dallas, Kenesaw; and the heats of summer found us on the banks of the Chattahoochie, far from home and dependent on a single road for supplies. Again we were not to be held back by any obstacle, and crossed over and fought four
heavy battles for the possession of the citadel of Atlanta. That was the crisis of our history. A doubt still clouded our future; but we solved the problem, and destroyed Atlanta, struck boldly across the State of Georgia, secured all the main arteries of life to our enemy, and Christmas found us at Savannah. Waiting there only long enough to fill our wagons, we again began a march, which for peril, labor, and results, will compare with any ever made by an organized army. The floods of the Savannah, the swamps of the Combahee and Edisto, the high hills and rocks of the Santee, the flat quagmires of the Pedee and Cape Fear rivers, were all passed in midwinter, with its floods and rains, in the face of an accumulating enemy; and, after the battles of Averasboro’ and Bentonville, we once more came out of the wilderness to meet our friends at Goldsboro’. Even then we paused only long enough to get new clothing, to reload our wagons, and again pushed on to Raleigh, and beyond, until we met our enemy, sueing for peace instead of war, and offering to submit to the injured laws of his and our country. As long as that enemy was defiant, nor mountains, nor rivers, nor swamps, nor hunger, nor cold had checked us; but when he who had fought us hard and persistently offered submission, your general thought it wrong to pursue him further, and negotiations followed which resulted, as you all know, in his surrender. How far the operations of the army have contributed to the overthrow of the Confederacy, of the peace which now dawns on us, must be judged by others, not by us. But that you have done all that men could do has been admitted by those in authority; and we have a right to join in the universal joy that fills our land because the war is over, and our government stands vindicated before the world by the joint action of the volunteer armies of the United States.
“To such as remain in the military service, your general need only remind you that successes in the past are due to hard work and discipline, and that the same work and discipline are equally important in the future. To such as go home, he will only say, that our favored country is so grand, so extensive, so diversified in climate, soil, and productions, that every man may surely find a home and occupation suited to his taste; and none should yield to the natural impotence sure to result from our past life of excitement and adventure. You will be invited to seek new adventure abroad; but do not yield to the temptation, for it will lead only to death and disappointment.
“Your general now bids you all farewell, with the full belief that, as in war you have been good soldiers, so in peace you will make good citizens; and if, unfortunately, new war should arise in our country, Sherman’s army will be the first to buckle on the old armor and come forth to defend and maintain the government of our inheritance and choice.
“By order of
“Major-General W. T. SHERMAN.
“L. M. D , Assistant Adjutant-General.”
THE BIRKENHEAD RAMS.
During the war the United States consuls in various parts of the world often rendered important services to the country by detecting the ungenerous attempts made by European nations to aid the Confederacy by blockade runners, and by secretly fitting out ironclads and other efficient craft for the use of the rebels.
Mr. Hammond, Consul to Dublin in the early part of the war, rendered efficient service in this respect, having prevented several vessels from being sent out as blockaders. But perhaps the most important service rendered by any consul was that which prevented the Birkenhead rams, two formidable iron-clads, from performing the rebel work for which they were intended. These rams were supposed for a long time to have been building in Egypt, for the Pacha of Egypt. That they were not completed and allowed to depredate on our commerce, is owing exclusively to the tact and energy of our Consul-General of Egypt, at the time residing in Alexandria. The history of this unwritten and hitherto unacknowledged service is this:
Said Pacha, late Viceroy of Egypt, during his European trip in 1862, visited the shipyard of Messrs. Laird & Co., Birkenhead, England, and being highly pleased with the works of these great shipbuilders, gave an order on his return home to Mr. Broway, a French merchant widely known in the East for his extensive business connections with the Egyptian government, for two iron clads, which were to be constructed by the Messrs. Laird. Broway conveyed the order, as directed, and the rams were commenced. While the building of these iron-clads was in progress the Viceroy died, and his successor, Ismael Pacha, the present ruler of Egypt, was called upon by Monsieur Broway for the necessary payments, which that potentate declined giving. But Monsieur Broway being strongly
backed by the Count De Morney, a near relative of the French Emperor, compelled Ismael Pacha to come to terms. Through this powerful influence, an arrangement was made, by which the Pacha was released from all further obligations regarding the same by a payment of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to Broway, who for that sum took the contract on his own shoulders. It was, however, understood between the Viceroy and Monsieur Broway that this arrangement should be kept secret, and the same continue to be known as the Viceroy’s property until the vessels were completed and disposed of.
Early in September, 1863, telegrams from the Federal Minister at London and the Consul at Liverpool were sent to the United States Consul-General at Alexandria, stating that the two iron clads were ready for sea and would sail as Egyptian property unless satisfactory evidence of their real ownership and destination could be produced, as this alone would enable the United States Minister at London to stop them.
To procure that evidence was a delicate and difficult task, as it could only be obtained from the Viceroy himself. Great tact and a refinement of diplomacy was necessary even in approaching the Viceroy, who was bound to secrecy by his agreement with Broway. Still the evidence could be obtained from no other source.
The Consul-General, Mr. Thayers, had previously sailed for Europe on leave, entrusting the affairs of his mission to Francis Dainese, Esq., of Washington City, a gentleman of fine capacity, who possessed great experience in the language and customs of the Orient. The diplomatic talent of this gentleman had been tested in various responsible positions which he had held under the government, and being placed on terms of easy communication with the Viceroy, both by position and a thorough knowledge of the Turkish language, he was, perhaps, the only person at that time in Egypt who could have approached that potentate with any hope of success. With quiet tact Mr. Dainese obtained an interview with the Pacha, and enlightened him regarding the subtle and skilful designs which were carried on against the United States under his name. For the first time Ismael Pacha understood clearly that these rams were to be delivered under his name, and as his property, to the enemies of the United States. So vividly and earnestly did Mr. Dainese
represent to His Highness the dangerous position in which this fraud would place himself and his government, that he obtained from the Pacha an official denial of his ownership in these rams, or that the Egyptian government was in any way connected with them.
On the 11th of September, 1863, Mr. Dainese telegraphed to Mr. Adams in London, that the Egyptian Government officially denied having any ownership, or being in any way concerned with the ironclads of Birkenhead. By the steamer of the 13th of September, a certified copy of the document itself was forwarded to Mr. Adams.
The telegram reached London on the 12th of September, 1863, and the two rams were shortly after seized by the British Government, at the urgent request of our Minister, founded entirely on the intelligence obtained by Mr. Dainese. This transaction made a good deal of excitement at the time, both in England and this country, and great credit was certainly deserved by Mr. Dainese for his timely interference, which saved our commerce from fresh depredations. There was a degree of boldness in his action worthy of all praise, for he promptly undertook and accomplished this important affair, without instructions from Washington, and the result was communicated by him to the Secretary of State, in whose department the diplomatic correspondence is now on file. Perhaps this record will be the first ever made of a transaction so important to the country, but in a war like that which has swept over our land, all events bearing upon it should be matters of public history, and the man who serves his country as a diplomat can be no more overlooked, in strict justice, than the general who leads its armies to the field.
THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION.
B P U S
A .
J 1, 1863.
Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a Proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing among other things the following, to wit:
“That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforth and forever free, and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom.
“That the Executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the United States; and the fact that any State, or the people thereof, shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such State shall have participated, shall, in the absence of strong countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence that such State and the people thereof are not then in rebellion against the United States.”
Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief
of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed Rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said Rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days from the day first above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof respectively are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit: ARKANSAS, TEXAS, LOUISIANA (except the Parishes of St. Bernard, Plaquemines, Jefferson, St. John, St. Charles, St. James, Ascension, Assumption, Terre Bonne, Lafourche, St. Marie, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the City of New Orleans), MISSISSIPPI, ALABAMA,
FLORIDA, GEORGIA,
SOUTH CAROLINA, NORTH CAROLINA, and VIRGINIA (except the fortyeight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Ann, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth), and which excepted parts are, for the present, left precisely as if this Proclamation were not issued.
And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that ALL PERSONS HELD AS SLAVES within said designated States and parts of States ARE, AND HENCEFORWARD SHALL BE FREE: and that the Executive Government of the United States, including the Military and Naval Authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.
And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free, to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defence, and I recommend to them that in all cases, when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages.
And I further declare and make known that such persons of suitable condition will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.
And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
[L. S.]
Done at the City of Washington, this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-seventh.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President—W H. S , Secretary of State.
PROCLAMATION.
WILLIAM H. SEWARD, SECRETARY OF STATE OF THE UNITED STATES,
To All to Whom these Presents May Come, Greeting:
Know ye, that, whereas, the Congress of the United States, on the 1st of February last, passed a resolution, which is in the words following, namely:
“A resolution submitting to the Legislatures of the several States a proposition to amend the Constitution of the United States:
“Resolved, By the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two-thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following article be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which, when ratified by threefourths of said Legislatures, shall be valid to all intents and purposes as a part of said Constitution, namely:
“ARTICLE XIII.
“S 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
“S 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.”
And, whereas, it appears from official documents on file in this department that the Amendment to the Constitution of the United States proposed as aforesaid has been ratified by the Legislatures of the States of Illinois, Rhode Island, Michigan, Maryland, New York, West Virginia, Maine, Kansas, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania,
Virginia, Ohio, Missouri, Nevada, Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Vermont, Tennessee, Arkansas, Connecticut, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Alabama, North Carolina, and Georgia, in all twenty-seven States;
And whereas, the whole number of States in the United States is thirty-six;
And whereas, the before specially named States, whose Legislatures have ratified the said proposed amendment, constitute three-fourths of the whole number of States in the United States;
Now, therefore, be it known that I, W H. S , Secretary of State of the United States, by virtue and in pursuance of the second section of the act of Congress approved the 20th of April, 1818, entitled “An Act to provide for the publication of the laws of the United States and for other purposes,” do hereby certify that the amendment aforesaid C U S .
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Department of State to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this 18th day of December, in the year of our Lord 1865, and of the Independence of the United States of America the 90th.
WM. H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.
LIST OF FEDERAL VESSELS CAPTURED BY THE CONFEDERATE NAVY.
B A .
Name of Vessels. Where from. Date of Capture. Tonnage.
Alert, bark New London Sept. 9, 1862 391
Altamaha, brig Sippican Sept. 13, 1862 300
Amanda, bark Manilla Oct. 6, 1863 595
Amazonian, bark New York June 2, 1863 481
A. F. Schmidt, ship St. Thomas July 2, 1863 784
Ariel, steamer New York Dec. 7, 1862 1295
Avon, ship Houland’s Island Mar. 29, 1864 930
B’n de Castine, brig Castine Oct. 29, 1862 267
Benj. Tucker, ship New Bedford Sept. 14, 1862 800
B. Thayer, ship Callao Mar. 1, 1863 896
Brilliant, ship New York Oct. 3, 1862 839
Charles Hill, ship Liverpool Nov. 25, 1863 699
Chastelain, brig Guadaloupe Jan. 27, 1863 240
Conrad, bark Montevideo June 20, 1863 347
Contest, ship Yokahama Nov. 11, 1863 1098
Corsair, schr. Provincetown Sept. 13, 1862 200
Crenshaw, schr. New York Oct. 23, 1862 278
Dorcas Prince, ship New York April 26, 1863 699
Dunkirk, brig New York Oct. 1863 298
E. Dunbar, bark New Bedford Sept. 18, 1862 300
E. Farnham, ship Portsmouth Oct. 3, 1862 1119
Emma Jane, ship Bombay Jan. 14, 1864 1096
Express, ship Callao July 6, 1863 1072
Golden Eagle, ship Howland’s Isl. Feb. 21, 1863 1273
Flora Reed, schr. Aug. 15, 1863 150 Glenavon, bark Glasgow Aug. 13, 1863 795
Goodspeed, schr. Boston Nov. 2, 1864 280 Howard, bark Aug. 15, 1864 598
Jas. Littlefield, ship Cardiff Aug. 14, 1864 599
J. H. Howen, schr. Gloucester Aug. 14, 1864 81
L. Dupont, schr. Wilmington, Del. Aug. 13, 1864 194 Magnolia, schr. Aug. 15, 1864 170 Mercy Howe, schr. Chatham Aug. 15, 1864 143 N. America, schr. Connecticut 1864 95
P. C. Alexander, bark New York 1864 284 Pearl, schr. Aug. 16, 183 Rasselas, schr. Boothbay, Me. Aug. 23, 1863 90 Roan, brig Salisbury Aug. 20, 1864 127
S. A. Boyce, schr. Boston Aug. 11, 1864 220
Sarah Louisa, schr. 1864 61
Spokane, schr. Calais, Me. Aug. 12, 1864 126
B T .
Ada, schr. Gloucester June 23, 1863 90
Arabella, brig
Gloucester June 12, 1863
Archer, schr. Gloucester June 24, 1863
Byzantium, ship London June 16, 1863
Elizabeth Ann, schr. Gloucester June 22, 1863
Florence, schr. Gloucester June 22, 1863
Goodspeed, bark Londonderry June 23, 1863
Isaac Webb, ship Liverpool June 20, 1863 1300
L. A. Macomber, schr. Noank June 20, 1863
Marengo, schr. Gloucester June 22, 1863
Ripple, schr. Gloucester June 22, 1863
Rufus Choate, Gloucester June 22, 1863
Shattemuc, ship Liverpool June 24, 1863
Umpire, brig Laguna June 15, 1863
Wanderer, schr. Gloucester June 22, 1863
A. H. Partridge, schr. Gloucester June 7, 1863
C. Cushing, cutter Portland June 24, 1863
Whistling Wind, bark Philadelphia June 6, 1863
Betsey Ames, brig Cuba Oct. 1861
Grenada, brig Neuvitas Oct. 13, 1861
B
Bold Hunter, ship Dundee Dec. 9, 1863 797
City of Bath, ship Callao June 28, 1863
Constitution, ship Philadelphia June 25, 1863 97
Crown Point, ship New York May 15, 1863 1053
Dictator, ship Liverpool April 25, 1863 1293
Geo. Griswold, ship Cardiff June 18, 1863 1280
B C .
B S .
G .
Good Hope, bark Boston June 22, 1863 436
John Watt, ship Maulmain Oct. 1863 947
J. W. Seaver, bark Boston June 22, 1863 340
Prince of Wales, ship Callao July 16, 1863 960
B J . D .
D. C. Pierce, bark Remedios June, 1861 306
Ella, schr. Tampico 1861 92
Enchantress, schr. Boston July 16, 1861 200
Jno. Crawford, ship Philadelphia Aug., 1861
John Welsh, brig Trinidad July 16, 1861 275 Rowena, bark Laguayra June, 1861 340
S. J. Waring, schr. New York July 16, 1861 372
W. McGilvery, brig Cardenas July, 1861 198
B W .
Herbert, schr. June 18, 1861 100
Itasca, brig Neuvitas Aug. 4, 1861 300
Mary Alice, schr. Porto Rico July, 1861 181
Priscilla, schr. Curacoa July, 1861 144
Transit, schr. New London July 15, 1861 195
B C .
Albion Lincoln, bark Portland Oct. 29, 1864 237
Emma L. Hall, bark Cardenas Oct. 31, 1864 492
Mark L. Potter, bark Bangor Oct. 30, 1864 400
Shooting Star, ship New York Oct. 31, 1864 947
B O .
A. J. Bird, schr. Rockland Nov. 3, 1864 178
Empress Teresa, bark Rio Janeiro Nov. 1, 1864 316
E. F. Lewis, schr. Portland Nov. 3, 1864
T. D. Wagner, brig Fort Monroe Nov. 3, 1864 390
B R .
Emily Fisher, brig St. Jago Mar. 1863 230
Hanover, schr. Boston Jan. 31, 1863 200
J. P. Ellicott, brig Boston Jan. 10, 1863 231
B S . N .
Mary Pierce, schr. Boston July 1, 1862 192 Margaret, schr. June 29, 1862 206 Monticello, brig Rio Janeiro July 1, 1862 300
B C .
John Adams, schr. Provincetown May, 1861 100 Mermaid, schr. Provincetown May, 1861 200 Panama, brig Provincetown May 29, 1861 153
B N .
Harvey Birch, ship Havre Nov. 19, 1862 800 R. Gilfillan, schr. Philadelphia Feb. 26, 1862 240
B B .
Lenox, bark
New York June 12, 1863 370 Texana, bark New York June 12, 1863 588
B S .
Joseph, brig Cardenas June 15, 1861 171
B L .
Kate Dywer, ship Callao June 17, 1863 1278
B E .
M. E. Thompson, brig July 9, 1862 210
Mary Goodell, schr. July 9, 1862 200
B Y .
G. V. Boker, schr. Galveston Aug. 9, 1861 100
B C .
Santee, ship Akyab Aug. 5, 1863 898
B T .
Living Age, ship Akyab Sept. 13, 1863 1193
M .
A. B. Thompson, ship Savannah May. 19, 1861 800 Alleghanian, ship Baltimore Oct. 21, 1862 1142
Alliance, schr. Philadelphia Sept. 1863
Boston, tug June 9, 1863
Chesapeake, steamer New York Dec. 7, 1863
Golden Rod, schr. Holmes’ Hole Sept. 1863
Hannah Balch, brig Cardenas July 6, 1862
Harriet Lane, gunbt. Galveston Jan. 11, 1863
James L. Gerity, Matamoros Oct. 1863 90
J. R. Watson, schr. New York
July 13, 1861
Lydia Francis, brig June 15, 1862
Pearl, schr. Moriches 1862
Protector, schr. Cuba June, 1861
Sea Bird, schr. Philadelphia 1863
Sea Witch, schr. Baracoa 1861
Union, schr. Baltimore Dec. 5, 1862
From the Commercial and Financial Chronicle.
CHRONOLOGY.
1862.
May 7. A detachment of the 13th Ind., Col. Foster, was led into an ambush at Somerville Heights, Va., by a superior force of rebels of the 7th Louisiana. After a severe skirmish, Col. Foster made an orderly retreat, with the loss of 29 men, inflicting equal loss to the enemy.
7. The 23d Ohio, Maj. Canley, drove a rebel force from Giles’s Court House, and the narrows of New river, W. Va., and captured 20 prisoners and some stores.
8. Skirmish near Corinth, Miss., by the 7th Ill. cavalry, Maj. Arlington, in which their commander was killed. 4 Federals wounded. Rebel loss 30.
8. The iron-clad steamer Galena, assisted by the gunboats Aroostook and Port Royal, attacked and silenced two rebel batteries a short distance from the mouth of the James river, Va., called the Upper and Lower shoal batteries. But trifling damage was experienced by the Federal vessels, and no casualties.
8. A reconnoissance in force was made by the united forces of Gens. Schenck and Milroy, near McDowell, W. Va., with 2,300 men, to check the advance of a superior force of rebels then threatening to attack them. An engagement of 5 hours’ duration ensued, in which 30 of the Feds. were killed and 200 wounded. The loss of the enemy is computed to have been greater. The movement was successful in checking the advance of the rebs., and the Fed. force was safely withdrawn to Franklin, the rebels showing no disposition to renew the combat.
8. An address was issued to the democracy of the U. S. setting forth party organization as essential to the preservation of public liberty. It was signed by Messrs. Richardson, Knapp, and Robinson, of Ill.; Law and Voorhees of Ind.; White, Allen Noble, Morris, Pendleton, and Vallandigham, of Ohio; Ancona and Johnson, of Penn., and Shields, of Oregon.
8. A bill passed by the U. S. Senate, establishing Beaufort, S. C., as a port of entry.
9. Two guerrillas were hung at Chester, W. Va., in conformity with orders based on a proclamat’n of Gen. Fremont.
9. Gen. Hunter proclaimed the persons in the States of Ga., Fa., and S. C., heretofore held as slaves, “forever free.”
9. Burning Springs, W. Va., was burned by rebel guerrillas.
9. Pensacola, Fla., evacuated by the rebs. after setting fire to forts, navy yard barracks and Marine hospital.
9. Capt. Connet and 48 men of the 27th Ind., were captured 12 miles from Athens, Ala., by a superior cavalry force under Col. Woodward. 13 rebs. and 5 Feds. were killed.
9. At Farmington, 5 miles N. W. of Corinth, Miss., the rebs. in great force under Ruggles, Price and Van Dorn, attacked Plummer’s and Palmer’s brigades, attached to Maj.-Gen. Pope’s division, and compelled them to retreat. A brilliant cavalry charge was made by the 2d Iowa, who lost 90 horses, 2 men killed and 40 wounded. The entire Fed. loss was about 40 killed and 120 wounded. The reb. loss was much greater.
9. The prize steamer P. C. Wallis, while on the way from Ship Isl. to N. O., with a battery of artillery on board, sprung a leak and sunk. The crew were saved by the gunboat Saxon.
9. Two recruits for the Fed. army at Washington, N. C., assassinated by rebs.
9. A company of rebs. under Capt. Walker, attempted to surprise Fed. officers at Washington, N. C. Capt. Redding’s company of 24th Mass., acting as pickets, killed Capt. Walker and 5 men. No Feds. were injured.
10. A spirited naval engagement occurred on the Miss. above Fort Wright. The Fed. gunboats besieging that place, under the command
of Acting-Flag-Officer Davis, were attacked by the rebel gunboats and rams then stationed at that post, who after a half hour’s contest were forced to retire. The Fed. gunboats Cincinnati and Mound City were badly injured in the contest, and the reb. vessels also were considerably cut up, though the casualties on either side were small.
10. White House, on the Pamunkey river, Va., occupied by Federal cavalry, 7,000 bushels of wheat and 4,000 of corn captured.
10. $800,000 in specie seized by Gen. Butler in New Orleans, at the office of the Consul for the Netherlands.
May 10. New Kent C. H., Va., occupied by Gen. Stoneman’s Fed. cavalry.
10. The iron-clad steamer Ironsides was launched at Philadelphia.
10. The reb. schooner Maria Theresa, was captured by the U. S. gunboat Unadilla.
10. Norfolk, Va., was occupied by Fed. troops under Gen. Wool.
10. A plot discovered in Paducah, Ky. by which the town was to be handed over to the rebs. within a week. Information was given by one of the conspirators.
11. The fortifications of Craney I., Va., taken possession of by the Nat’l forces.
11. 48 freight and 4 passenger cars, and 2 locomotives were captured by 140 reb. cavalry under Col. Morgan, at Cave City, Ky.
11. Col. Phelan’s reb. camp at Bloomfield, Mo., was broken up by the 1st Wis. cavalry.
11. A reb. lieutenant and 10 men were captured by Maj. Duffie’s command, Harris’ Light cavalry, near Fredericksburg, Va.
11. The reb. iron-plated steamer Merrimac was abandoned by her crew and blown up off Craney Island, Va., the retreat of the rebel forces from Yorktown and Norfolk isolating her from the Confederate forces.
12. The reb. steamer Governor Morton captured.
13. General Fremont, with his command, reached Franklin, W. Va., advancing by forced marches. Maj.-Gen. Halleck issued an order expelling newspaper correspondents from his lines.
13. Martial law enforced in Charleston, S. C.
13. Reb. Gen. Jackson made an unsuccessful attack on Gens. Milroy and Schenck’s brigades near McDowell, Va., Fed. loss 20 killed and 177 wounded. Reb. loss 40 killed, 200 wounded. Feds. lost their camps, baggage, and stores.
13. Reb. armed steamer Planter, was run out of Charleston, S. C., by a negro crew, and surrendered to Commander Parrott, of the steamer Augusta.
13. Suffolk, Va., occupied by Federal troops under Maj. Dodge.
13. Gen. Butler forbid the opening of churches on the 15th inst. in N. O., for the purpose of observing a fast day prescribed by Jeff. Davis.
13. Attack on Fort Wright, Miss. river, by reb. mortar and gunboats.
13. Slight skirmish near Monterey, Tenn., by Gen. Smith’s troops. Reb. loss 10; Union 2.
13. Natchez, Miss., surrendered to flag-officer Farragut.
14. A skirmish near Trenton Bridge, N. C. Col. Amory with 17th and 25th Mass. defeated a reb. force, killing 10 of them.
14. Rebel steamer Alice captured in Roanoke river by U. S. steamers Ceres and Lockwood.
14. A party consisting of four officers’ servants and several convalescent soldiers, in charge of Surgeon Charles Newham, 29th N. Y. V., when on the road to Moorfield, were attacked while passing through a gap on Lost river, near Wartonsville. With the exception of Dr. Newham, who, though severely wounded succeeded in cutting his way through, the whole party were either killed or taken prisoners.
15. The Fed. iron battery Monitor, together with the mailed gunboats Galena and E. A. Stevens, attacked Fort Darling, on Watches Bluff, 6 miles below Richmond, on the James river. The fight continued for four hours, when the ammunition of the Galena having become exhausted, the Fed. vessels retired. The Galena was badly damaged, and lost 17 men killed and about 20 wounded. The large rifled gun of the E. A. Stevens burst early in the action. All the vessels engaged under great disadvantage in not being able to obtain sufficient elevation of their guns to bear on the high bluffs occupied by the enemy.
