The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds part 4 (1912) (14597433829)

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Title: The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds part 4
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: University Society, New York
Subjects: Children's literature Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries Literature Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York. : University Society
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho



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agut. —General Butler takes possessionof New Orleans, May i. — President Lincoln callsfor 300,000 volunteers. —The Federals are de-feated at the second battle of Bull Run, August29-30. The battles of Antietam (September 16-17) and Fredericksburg (December 13) arefought. —General Bragg enters Kentucky.—TheSioux Indians go on the war-path. 1863— President Lincoln issues his Emanci-pation Proclamation, freeing more than 3,000,000slaves. —General Hooker is defeated by GeneralLee at the battle of Chancellorsville, May 2-4.—Lee marches into Pennsylvania, and is defeatedat Gettysburg, July 1-3. —Vicksburg, Mississippi,surrenders July 4.—Draft riots (riots caused bydrafting, or compelling men to serve in thearmy) break out in New York in July. 1864— President Lincoln orders a draft of 500,-000 men. —General Grant is appointed com-mander of all the armies of the United States.—Grant and Lee fight battles of the Wilderness,Spottsylvania Court House, and Cold Harbor.—
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AMKRICAN STATESMEN.261 262 EVENTS OF OUR COUNTRYS HISTORY Lincoln is renominated for President, and An-drew Johnson for Vice-President. The UnitedStates ship Kearsage sinks the Confederate shipAlabama near Cherbourg, France.—GeneralHood is besieged at Atlanta, Georgia.—Atlantais evacuated by Hood and occupied by GeneralSherman.—Abraham Lincoln is reelected Presi-dent.—General Sherman begins his march fromAtlanta to the sea November i6.—The Confed-erates are defeated in the Battle of Nashville,December 14-16.—Sherman occupies SavannahDecember 21. 1865—General Sherman captures Columbia,South Carolina, February 17, and occupiesCharleston, February 18.—President Lincoln isinaugurated March 4.—Richmond is taken April3.—General Lee and his army surrender to Gen-eral Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia,April 9.—President Lincoln is assassinated April14 by John Wilkes Booth. The President diesApril 15. Vice-President Johnson succeeds him.—Jefferson Davis is captu