Me, and, alter a fight of two hours, loses 2,500 In
killed.and wounded, and Is driven book to Ms en
trenchments.
SII’THnihB,
TBOTiSDAY, SBPTBMBKS 1,
General Jeff U. Davis deroits the rebels of Jones
boro, Ga., capturing 8 guns and 2,000 prisoners and
killing 0,000 rebels.
General Sherman’s army destroys 8 miles of tlio
Macon Railroad.
General Hood evacuates Atlanta, havlngprevlons
ly destroyed 7 locomotives, 8t oars loaded with am
munition, and a large number of small arms and
military stores, leaving Intact 14 pleoes of artillery
and a large number of small arms. General Gher
man pursues Mm to Loveioy’s station, but nndlns
it not advisable to attack him m the new position,
and 11s (Sherman’s) army needing rest, returns to
Atlanta, having captured, altogether. In this move
ment, 27 gunsjS.ooo prisoners,and 2,6oowounded,
left In the hands of the Union forces, with a Union
10 Arebe/foroef l.OOOs’trong,marohlngon Nashville,
driven towards Murfreesboro by General Rousseau,
Wheeler, Forrest, and Boddy tear upthetraohof
the Great Western Eallroad between Nashville and
the Tennessee river. Generalßousseau goes In pur
suit of (hem.
TUIiSDAY, 2.
General Slocum’s corps marches Into Atlanta and
occupies the city. : _ , . ,
Franz Muller, the English murderer, starts for
England In the steamer Etna, under guard of Tan
ner, the English detective polloeman. .
The rebels, under Early, retreat towards win
chester, pursued by General AverUl’s Union oa
ths' Peruvian Congress threatens Spain with war
on aooount of the illegal seizure of the Ohinoha
Islands,
SATURDAY, 3,
Sunday, September 4, appointed as a day or
thanksgiving-, by the President, on aooount of the
glorious victories achieved by Sherman at Atlanta
and Farragut at Mobile, and salutes of one hundred
kubs ordered to be fired In the principal oitlea of the
Northern States in honor of the event.
The rebel General Wheeler’s expedition retreats
to Florence, Alabama, his raid having proved a
battle occurs at Berryvllle, In the Shenandoah.
■Valley, between the rebel and Union foroes. Union
loss, one hundred killed and wounded; rebel loss,
fir, hundred.
SUNDAY, 4.
Moseby’s guerillas capture thirty-one wagons of
an ambulance train,' near Harper’s Ferry. Captain
Blazer, sent In pursuit, recaptures fifty horses.
■MONDAY, ®.
General GUle m defeats and S ills the rebel General
Morgan, at,Gr«enville, Tennessee, oapturlug his
staff, one gun, and seventy prisoners, and hilling
from fifty to one hundred of Ms gang.
General Bousseau captures live hundred horses
ftom Wheeler, on his retreat towards Alabama.
The new State Constitution of Xioulstana adopted.
TUESBAY, 6.
Five thousand French troops commenoa tie ascent
of the Klo Grande, for the purpose of attacking tho
Mexicans at Matamoros, bat are repulsed by Oor
tlnas, who drives them to Baca del file, but on ao,
count of the superior artillery of the French with
draws to tho Texas side-of the river, and encamps
alongside the Union troops. .... .'
Brevet Gen. Crook assigned to the command of
the Department of Western Virginia, in the place
or Major Gen. Hunter, resigned.
A rebel force of 2,000 men, under Col. Dlbrell, de
feated near KeddyvMe, on (Mpplo Creek, Tean ,
by the Oth Pennsylvania Union loss 1
hilled, 6 wounded, and 4 missing. Kebel loss 28
killed, and ISO taken prisoners; the remainder re
treat to Murfreesboro to join Wheeler’s command.
The rest of Morgan’s band defeated by Gen. Oil
lem, near Bull’s Gap, with a loss of over 76 men
(rebels).
WEDNESDAY, 7.
A conference held at Charlottetown, Prince Ed
ward’s Island, to consider the expediency ol a union
of the Canadian provinces,
THUESBAY, 8.
Major General George B. McClellan aeeepts the
nomination of the Chicago Convention.
Cortlnas, the Mexican general, drives the rebels
out of Brownsville, Texas, and hoists the stars and
stripes over the court house.
The rebel General Price crosses the Arkansas
river at Dardanelles, halfway between Fort smith
and little Kook, en route to Missouri.
FBIDAY, 9.
Gen. Sherman Issues orders requiring the evacua
tion of Atlanta by Its inhabitants, so that It may be
held as a military post, and to oarry out the order
proposes an armistice of ten days, to commence on
the 12th Inst.
Gen. Sherman’s army concentrates at Atlanta,
Wheeler’s cavalry force, sent out to destroy Gen.
Sherman’s communications with Atlanta, was vig
orously pursued by the Union cavalry under Wilson
and Steadman.
SATURDAY, 10.
The Union troops capture a rebel line of entrench
ments, near Petersburg, and Bfl prisoners.
Gen. Hood addresses a letter to Gen. Sherman,
accusing him of barbarity In ordering the depopula
tion of Atlanta. Gon. Sherman sends him an un
answerable reply, iully justlfjing Ms oonduot.
Gen. Maimadufce crosses the St. Franol3 river,
In Arkansas, intending to Invade Missouri,
Sunday, 11.
The mayor of Atlanta addresses a letter to Gen,
Sherman ashing him to reconsider Ms order to the
oltiransto evacuate Atlanta, speaking ot the diffi
culties, &0., to which the inhabitants would be sub
jected. Gen. Sherman sends a fitting response, but
xeiuses to reconsider the order.
MONDAY, 12.
The armistice of ten days, agreed upon between
Generals Sherman and Hood for tno removal of the
Inhabitants of Atlanta either North or South, as
they may elect, .commences.
Giant’s new railroad to Petersburg completed.
Park Benjamin dies in New York olty.
Shelby’s rebel force of from 4,000 to 8,000 men oc
cupy Powhatan, Arkansas, en route to Missouri.
TUBBPAY, 18.
A heavy reoonncissance sent out by Gen. Sheri
dan across.the Opcquan towards Winchester finds
the rebels on the west bank and captures the Bth
South Oarolina Regiment, with its battle-flags, 16
officers, and 115 men. Union loss, 2 killed and 2
wounded. '
Martinsburg teoccupled by Gen. Averill.
l4.
Gen. Grant arrives at Fortress Monroe, en route
to Washington.
THTTBSDAY, 15,
The rebels make a raid on the Union eattle-cor*
ral at Coggins’ Font, on the James, and capture
SO Union soldiers and 2,500 head or cattle.
VRIDA.Y, 10,
The advance of the Union forces under General
■A. J. Smith arrives at Sulphur Springs, twenty
miles below St. Louis, to repel the advance of the
xehel forces under Price and Shelby Into Missouri.
SATURDAY, 17,
Franz Muller, who murdered Thomas Briggs In
the Uondon railway car, arrives in London from
America.
General Grant leaves Baltimore for Harper’s
Terry, en route to Sherman's army.
The schooner Jane F. Durfee captured In War
wick river, near James river, by the rebels.
General Fremont withdraws hla name asaean
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SUNDAY, 18.
Averill attacked at Martinsburg by the rebels,
under MoO&ual&nd and Johnson, and falls back to
HalneSYllie, on the Virginia side of the river, where
he receives reinforcements.
General Grant arrives at Burlington, N, X, on a
abort visit to bis family.
MONDAY, 10.
General Sheridan obtains another victory over
Early, at the crossing of the Opequan Creek, over
the Berryvllle pike, in the Shenandoah Valley, oap
tnrlog 6,000 prisoners, 8 places of artillery, and 15
battle Hags, The battle lasted all day, and the
rebel Generals It bodes and Gordon were killed, and
Carter and York wounded. Union loss, 4,000,
General AverlH having received reinforcements,
ditvcs the rebels under MeOaualand and Johnson
back to Banker Hill, and reoconpies Martinsburg.
Two small steamers, the Parsons and Island
(queen, oaptured on Babe Erie by xebelß lrom Cana
da ; one sunk and the other burned.
A fight occurs at Powder Mills, Southeast Mis
souri, between detachments of the 3d Missouri Mi
litia, under Pope, and a portion of the rebel Gene
ral Shelby’s command, union loss 20 hilled and
wounded. Bebel loss unknown.
TUESDAY, 20.
Sheridan’s army crosses Cedar Crock, in pursuit
of the flying rebels under Early.
Charles T. Oookey, who acted as a pilot to the
•rebels In their late raid through Maryland, sentenced
to flve years’ Imprisonment and a fine of one thou
sand dollars, to be paid when his term of Imprison
ment expires.
WEDNESDAY, 21.
Commander Carter, of the United States steamer
Michigan, captures the Lake Erie pirates.
THTTB6DAY, 22.
General Sheridan overtakes Early strongly
posted at Fisher’s Hill, in his retreat up the Shenan
doah Yalley. The Union cavalry under Crook turn
the position, and the 6th and 19th Corps attacked
them in front, compelling thorn to retreat In confu
sion. Tvrenty-one pieces of artillery, a great num
ber of caissons, artillery hones. 1,190 small arms,
2,4QQ prisoners, and about 1,200 killed and wounded
prisoners were left in the hands of the Union foroes.
Union lobb about TOO.
fbiday, 23,
Eight rebel regimental battle flags captured by
General Sheridan in the Shenandoah Talley, pre
sented by the captors jn the name of General
Sheridan to the 'War Department at Washington.
SCS DAY, 26.
Matamoros, Mexico, captured by the French
under General Mejal.
HON DAT, 26.
The Union cavalry under General Sheridan occu
py Staunton and Waynesboro, Va., and destroy the
railroad track between Christiana creek and,Staun
ton, the Iron bridge over the South river, at Waynes
boro, and the bridge over Christiana creek.
The rebel Colonel Witcher, of Morgan’s command,
with 660 men, makes a raid Into Western Ylrglnia,
destroying property to the amount of $lOO,OOO.
The following Is the number of vessels oaptured
by the pirate Florida, between March 29 and Sep
tember 26—vis: 2 ships. 1 steamer, 2 schooners, 1
brig, and 6 barks ; some of which were destroyed,
ana others bonded.
TUESDAY, 27.
Marianna, West Florida, captured by General
Aaboth’a Expedition, with 81 prisoners and a large
amount of military stores.
W-KDHEBDAT, 23.
The rebels make a night attack on the Union en
trenchments In front of fort Sedgwick, near Blob
moml, but are repulsed by the colored troops.
Potash 70 miles southwest from St. Louis, Ho.,
captured by the rebels.
The rebel General Forrest destroys all the trestles
and bridges between Athens and Polofi, a distance
of 80 miles, In the rear of Sherman’s army.
General Hooker transferred to the command of
the Northern Military Department of the United
States, Including Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and
Illinois.
General Ewing concentrates the troops under his
command in front of the rebel position at Pilot
Knob, Mo.
TBUESDAY, 29.
General Grant makes another movement on Bisk"
mond by wav of Chaffin’s Farm, capturing 15 pieces
of artillery and 350 prisoners. General Birney at
the same tune ad vanoes from Deep Bottom, carrying
the New Market road and entrenchments. The
Union General Bnmam is killed, and Ord and
.Stannard wounded.
General Birney, with the 3d Division Colored
Troops, makes three assaults On the rebel lines near
Deep Bottom, but is repulsed with heavy loss.
The Union troops, under General Thomas Ewing,
repel an assault made by General Price’s army on
the fort at Pilot Knob, Missouri. Bebel loss, 1,600
killed and wounded j Union loss, 9 killed and so
wounded. During the night, Gen. Ewing evacuates
Pilot Knob, retreating toward Harrison Station,
which he reaohes at 10 P. M.
X£IDAY,3O.
The Army of the James makes another advance
on Richmond. General Meade moves from the left,
and carries the enemy’s line near Poplar Grove
Church, Virginia, capturing 2 forts, a long line of
rifle-pits, 2 guns, and 60 prisoners. Union loss about
600.
The rebels, in three strong columns, make an
aisault upon the Union lines near Chaffin’s Farm,
but are repulsed with severe losb.
The rebel General Vaughan defeated by General
GlUem at Carr’s Station, Rest Tennessee.
General Burbridge captures the salt works near
Abingdon, Virginia.
'OCTOBER.
SATURDAY, OCTOBBK 1.
Gen. Hooker assumes command of the Northern
Military Department or the United States.
The Emperor Maximilian declares the Penlnlula
of Yucatan and the Colony of Honduras Incorpo
rated with the Mexican Empire.
Sunday, 2. , . ,
The repel General Price, with 7,000 men, Invades
Missouri and destroys bridges and railroad property
lbr a distance of twenty miles below Franklin.
General Buibridge, with 2.600 men, attacks 8,000
rebels 1 near SaltvlTle, S. W. Virginia, and drives
•them Into their entrenchments and then but of
’them, but, on account of the failure of his ammunh
Horn Is compelled to withdraw. Union loss, In
hilled. Wounded, and missing, SSQ. Rebel loss, ISO
attacked by the rebels under Bu
ford.’with part of Forrest's command. They make
' formal demand forMta surrender, but, being re
"rii yjlthdraw. , ,
T d & f Sctemtlfn^Fo^:
ngelMt BoUa,
* 1.
TUESDAY, 4. *
A portion of Hood's rebel force*, sent to operate
in Sherman's rear, destroy the railroad near Aok
worth Station, Tern., and burn Big Shanty.
"WEDNESDAY, 6.
7 000 rebels, under General French, make an at.
tack on Alatoona, Ga., but are handsomely repulsed
by a portion or General John E. Smith’s corps,
leaving all their dead and wonnded In the hands of
the Union troops. .„ . .. .
A terrific hurricane occurs, at Calcutta, Hlndos
tan, desolating a tract of country 185 miles long,
and destroying 800 lives. Out of 900 ships in the
Hoogly, 10 were totally lost and <5O driven from
their moorings, stranded, and damaged. The rest
escape serious damage.
THURSDAY, 6. "
An expedition under General Dana attaoks the
rebels at Woodvllle, Miss., and captures 3 guns, 2
officers, and 54 men, and kills 40 others. Union loss,
none.
General Grant strengthens the advanced position
gained by the Union forces near Petersburg. . ,
Clinton, La, with 30 rebel prisoners, captured by
General Lee.
FBIDAY, 7. . , , „
General P. H, Sheridan arrives at Woodstock, Va,
having destroyed vast quantities of grain and fo
rage in the Shenandoah Valley, making the whole
country, from the Blue fridge to the North Mountain
untenable for a rebel army.
The rebels under Price appear before Jefferson
attacked by the rebels atDarbytown
Bead, Va., driven back with a loss of 8 guns. The
latter then advance to Newmarket against Btmey’s
lines, bat are repulsed near the Signal Station.
General Blraey recaptures and holds the entrench
ments lost by Kautz in the morning. Hebei loss
i,goo killed and wounded and 100 prisoners. Union
loss 300 in killed, wonnded, and prisoners.
■ The pirate Florida, with 12 officers and 68 men
captured In Bahia Boy, Brazil, by the United States
gunboat Waohnsset, Commander Collins. The Em
peror of Braell protests against the seizure in Bra
zilian waters.
r BATT7RDAY, 8.
Tie sth and 9fch Corps of the Army of the Potom&Ci
In order to feel the enemy’s strength, advance tneir
lineß half amlle, driving in the enemy’ssklrmishera.
An attack on Jefferson City, Mo., by the rebel
General Price repulsed by the Union troops. .The
former move off to a westerly direction, pursued by
the Union troops for six miles. ...
Sherman repairs the railroad between Alatoona
and Atlanta. ... „
SUNDAY, 9.
General Sheridan achieves another victory over
the rebels, near Fisher’s Hill, capturing 11 guns, 4T
wagons, ambulances, &c., and 330 prisoners, making
36 pieeeß of artillery captured from the rebels In
th» Shenandoah Valley sinee tbe leth of September.
MONDAY, 10.
The rebel General Price’s army moves from Cali
fornia to BoonsvUle, Mo. A force of 2,000 United
States cavalry is sent to intercept them.
A body of Union troops af East Point, Tenn., re
pulsed by the rebels under General . Forrest, with a
loss of 4 guns and between 20 and 26 killed and
wounded.
TUESDAY, 11.
An election for State officers and Congressmen
held in Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Illinois, results
in the election of the Union candidates, with large
majorities.
An election to determine whether the new Consti
tution abolishing slavery in Maryland shall be
adopted, results In favor of the adoption by nearly
2,000 majority.
WEDNESDAY, 12.
Admiral Porter assumes command of the North
Atlantic Blockading Squadron.
General Butler orders no rebel prisoners to work
In the Dutoh Gap Canal, on the James river, In re
taliation for a like number of Union colored pri
soners set to work In the rebel trenohes at Fort
Gilmer.
Boger B. Taney, Chief justice of the Supreme
Court of tbe United States. dieß at Washington.
Acting Bear Admiral O- K. Stribling assumes
command of the Bast Gulf Squadron.
THURSDAY, 18.
The rebels capture Dalton, Mississippi.
( A violent tornado, lasting fifteen minutes, oeours
at Bio Janeiro, Brazil. A great somber of houses
are blown down, and completely riddled with hall
stones: several vessels in the harbor capsized, and
a number of lives lost.
Moseby makeß a raid on the Baltimore and Ohio
Baiiroad, near Kearnoysvllle, capturing and burn
ing a train of oars, and robbing the passengers.
• JTRIDAY, 14.
The Union troops in Missouri, haring evacuated
Fulton, Sturgeon, Huntsville, Glasgow, and Fay
ette, concentrate at Mason City to repal the rebel
invaders under Price.
Moaeby’e camp, Bear Piedmont, Va., captured by
Colonel Oansevoort, of the 13th New York Cavalry,
and four guns and caissons and a large number of
prisoners and horses captured.
SATUKDAT, 15.
Ktoggoltf, 6a., reocaupied Uy the Union forces.
Sedalia, Missouri, captured by tie rebels under
Jeff Thompson.
Glasgow, In Howard county, Missouri, captured
by the rebels under Generals Clark and Shelby,
alter an engagement lasting five hours, waen the
Union troops, under Colonel Harding, on account of
the inferiority of their numbers, are obliged to sur
render. _ _
Major General Dana assumes command of the
District of West Tennessee and Vicksburg.
BOMBAY, 18.
Tie rebel General Hood abandons Ms groat move
•to cat off Sherman’s communications and Invade
Tennessee, and retreats hastily from Dalton.
The treaty of peace between Denmark and Ger
many ratified at Vienna.
Twenty-five prominent Southern sympathizers
arrested, and some of them placed on the cars of the
'Manassas Gap Kailroad as a protection against
guerillas.
MOMDAY7 17.
A number of large business houses In Baltimore
closed by the Government for carrying rebel mails
and fumisMng the rebels with contraband goods.
Gen. Pleasonton assumes command of the Union
cavalry in Missouri.
The rebel Gen. G T. Beauregard 'assumes com
mand of the “Military Division ofthe West,” com
prising the armleß of Hood, Price, and Dick Taylor.
The G overbore of Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi hold
a meeting at Augusta, Ga., and pass resolutions de
claring it necessary to put every available man in
the fieia, white or blaok, ana urging the rebel Con
gress to use the most vigorous means for the defence
of the Confederacy.
TUESDAY, 18.
The rebels strengthen the rightwingofthelrarmy
near Petersburg. ,
Gen. D. B. Blrney dies in Philadelphia of a mala- •
rious lever contracted on the James river.
Gen. Grant accepts the proposition of the rebels to
allow them to send articles of necessity to their pri
soners North, and us to send articles of necessity to
our prisoners South.
wbbhbsday, 19.
Gen. Sheridan achieves another great victory
over the rebels under Early, at Cedar Creek, in the
Shenandoah Valley, capturing SO guns, nearly 2,000
prisoners, and a great number of wagons, horses,
ambulances, caissons, &o. The rebels retreat up the
Shenandoah Valley. - a
The three-masted schooner Emily captured at St.
T .i>Tilg -Pans hvtbe TMted-StAtwwrea.niaE Mohilo*, .
sum of money, by a gang of 25 armed men, supposed
to be in the rebel employ. They flee to Canada with
their plunder.
THURSDAY, 20.
Sheridan’s forces capture Fisher’s Hill, abandoned
by the rebels in their retreat up the Shenandoah
Valley.
The last Thursday in November appointed by the
President as a day of Thanksgiving and prayer
.throughout the United States.
PBIDAY, 21.
The rebels under Hood abandon the road from -
Atlanta to Tilton, and retreat to Jacksonville and
Talladaga, intending to strike the railroad to Mont
gomery, but are hotly pursued by Sherman’s forces.
SATURDAY, 22.
Captain Semmes, with 20 of his adherents, mem
bers of the late crow of the Alabama, arrive at
Jamaica, en ronte to the rebel eapltol.
SUNDAY, 23.
Thirteen of the Vermont rebel raiders placed In
jail at St. Johns, N. B.
The working party at Dutch Gap on the James
river shelled by the rebels. Two new Union bat
teries open upon the rebel fleet above Dutch Gap,
and drive them up the James river.
HOBDAY, 21.
An application made In the Superior Court orßal
ilmore for a mandamus commanding the Governor
of Maryland to exclude from being counted the
votes of soldiers out of the State of Maryland re
fused, whereupon an appeal 1b filed In the Court of
Appeals.
TUESDAY, 26.
Forrest concentrates a large rebel foroe at Jack
son, Term.
Acting Rear Admiral Charles H. Bell, havinghad
command of the Pacific Squadron for three years,
relieved by Acting Bear. Admiral G. F. Pearson, at
Panama.
WEDNESDAY, 26.
Sberman arrives at Gaylesvllle, Ala., In his pur
suit of Hood’s rebel army, retreating towards Gads
den.
THTFKSDAY, 27.
The rebel ram Albemarle Btrnk in the Roanoke
river, near Plymouth, N, C., by a torpedo placed
under her by some seamen In a U. S. steam picket
boat, under the command of Lieut. W. B. Cushing,
U. S. N. The picket-boat also sunk, and eleven of
the orew drowned or captured. Lieut. Cushing and
one seaman swim ashore and are saved.
Ferry and Donohue arrested at Baltimore, and Col.
Samuel North at Washington, on a charge of send
ing an Immense number of fraudulent soldiers’ votes
to the State of New York to influence the Presi
dential election.
The 2d and 6th Corps of the Army of the Potomac,
under Hancock and warren, make a reconnotssanoe
to feel the strength of the enemy. The latter make
an attack on Hancock, but are vigorously repulsed.
910 rebel prisoners, and seven loaded teams and a
dozen of beef cattle, on their road from Stony Creek
to the rebel army, are captured. Union loss In
killed, wounded, and missing, 1,600.
Major General Pleasanton achieves a victory over
Price In Missouri, during his retreat South, cap
turing ten pieces of artillery—compelling him to
destroy over 260 wagons, and killing, wounding, and
taking a great number of prisoners.
xriday, 28. .
The application for ah injunction against the new
Free State Constitution, ef Maryland, dismissed In
the Court of Appeals of the State of Maryland.
One thousand rebels, underJFrice, routed at New
toula, Mo., with a loss of 200, Including twooolonels.
Union loss, lib).
Paris, Tenn, oeoupled by 700 rebels, under Gea.
Lyon.
Railroad communication re-established between
Chattanooga and Atlanta.
Fort Herman, <m the Tennessee river, occupied by
the rebels under Gen. Buford.
Gen. Glllem achieves a victory over the rebel
Gen. Vaughan’s command at Norristown, East
Tennessee, capturing 600 prisoners and 13 pieces of
artillery.
SATURDAY, 29.
-.Gov. Bradford, of Maryland, declares the new
Constitution of Maryland adopted, to go Into efleot
on the Ist of November, 1864.
Franz Muller, the murderer of Thomas Briggs,
sentenced to death in London, England.
The United States steamer Mazeppa captured and
burned by the rebels at Fort Herman, on the Ten
nessee river.
SUNDAY, 30.
The United States gunboat Undine captured by
the rebels at Fort Herman, on the Tennessee river.
The rebel Gens. Forrest, Buford, Chalmers, and
Bell, concentrated their, forces at Fort Herman.
MONDAY, 81.
Commander Macomb lands a foroe of one hun
"dred men from his ship, near Plymouth, N. 0., who
charge upon Fort Bateman and carry it, capturing
thirty-seven prisoners, thirty-two cannon, two bun
dred stand of arms, with the flag of the fort and of
the ram Albemarle, and a great quantity of asms-
BitiGß.
Nevada admitted [into the Union as the thirty
sixth State.
HOVKJIBFJR.
TUESDAY, HOYBMBBR 1.
Ferry and Edward Donolmo, Jr., agents in the
New 'fork election frauds, sentenced to imprison
ment for life.
Secretary Seward telegraphs to the Mayor of
Buflalo, New York, that these is a conspiracy on
foot to set fire to the prineipal cities in the North
ern States on the day of the Presidential eleotton.
The new Constitution of Maryland, goes Into ope
ra Somo rebel raiders from Canada make an at
tack on Castine, on the Maine border but are driven
ofl Ldmlral S. F. Lee assumes command of the
Mississippi Squadron. .
THUB6DAY, 3. _ _
A rebel force attempts to cross the Tennesse river
at the mouth of the Blue Water, but were repulsed
with considerable lot® by a portion of Gen. Sher
man’s forces.
FBEDAYj 4. '
Forty boats aod barges burned; and large quantl*
ties of provisions destroyed, at Johnsonvllie, Team,
to prevent them from falling Into the hands of the
rebels.
Generals Gratis and Blunt having arrived at Fay
etteville, Ark., the rebels under Fagan abandon the
siege, having lost 100 killed and wounded. Union
loss 1 killed.
The pirate Ohlckanfauga destroys several vessels
along the Atlantic coast of the United States.
A-committee of Influential persons call at the
oalace of the Queen of Spain, and, through Gen.
bulee.uk that all negroes born after January,
1865, shall be declared free at the expiration of if
years. % batubdav, 6.
The Union forces evacuate JohnsjnyUle, Toon.
THE PRESS.-PHOPQADBIA’HIA; SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1864.
A large rebel force under Generals Chalmers, Lyon,
Forrest, and Koddy occupy the town.
Major Gen. Butler assumes command of alt the
troops sent to New York to protect the paaoe during
the Presidential election.
Two hundred of Moseby’s guerillas routed at
Salem, Va., by 150 men of the Bth Illinois Cavalry,
with a loss of 6 rebels killed, T wounded, and 9 pri
soners.
The rebels in Canada attempt a raid ,on the bank
at Bellows’ Falls, Vt.. but ate felled.
A fight occurs with the rebels near Petersburg, in
which they acknowledge a loss of 200 men.
Gen. Sherman, in an order, at Kingston, Ga., in
forms the officers and men of the 14ih, 15tb, 17 til,
and.mh corps that he has organized them lato an
army for a special purpose, known to Gen. Grant
and the War Department, and exhorts them to do
their duly.
SUNDAY, a.
' Gen. Cabby, who succeeded Gen. Banks in com
mand of the Union forces In Louisiana, severely
wounded on board the U. S. gunboat Cricket, by
guerillas, on Whito river, Arkansas.
mosday, 7.
Gen. McClellan sends m his resignation as major
general In the U. S. army to the War Department
which is accepted, and Gen. Sheridan is promoted
tQ the same office, on account of his gallant oonduct
in the Shenandoah Valley. ■
Brig. Gen. 'Peck assumes command of the de
fences on the frontiers of the United States and
Canada, with his headquarters at Buffalo.
Jefferson Davis addresses his annual message to
the rebel Congress at Biohmond.
The Danish Bigsraad meets for the purpose of
ratifying the treaty of peace between Denmark and
Germany,
TUESDAY 8.
The Presidential election held to-day throughout
the United States results in the re-election of Abra
ham Lincoln, the Opposition oandidate receiving
the electoral votes of only three States—New
Jersey, Delaware, and Kentuoky.
Johnsonville, Tenn , evacuated by the rebels
tfhtler Forrest, and reocoupied by Gen. Sohofieid,
With 1,600 U. S. troops.
The rear guard of Prioe’s rebel army crosses the
Arkansas river under fire of the Union guns, leaving
one gun, Ms own carriage, and other equipments,
which fail into the bands of the Union foroes. 1
WBDHBBDAY, 9. -
Gen. Sherman having left a suffleientforoe under
Gen. Thomas to take oare of the army of the rebel
Gen. Hood, divides the remainder of his army, esti
mated at 47,000 men, into two Wings at Kingston,
Ga.; the right, consisting of the 15th and 17 th
Corps, is entrusted to the command of Major Gsn.
O. O. Howard; the left, consisting of the 14ih and
20th Corps, to Gen. H. W. Slocum,
A terrible tornado passes over the town of Ches
ter. 111., destroying a large amount of property,
killing 5 persons and wounding 15. Loss *60,000.
The treaty of peace between Denmark and Ger
many approvedln the Danish Lower House.
The rebels make three attacks on Atlanta, hut
are repulsed, and retreat towards Macon.
THURSDAY, 10.
Gen. GiUem routs the rebels out of East Tennes
see, driving them in confusion 44 miles, and halting
his advance 90 miles east of Knoxville.
A rebel plot to capture the Oallfomla steamer
San Salvador foiled, and the whole gang of pirates
arrested.
The pirate Sommes arrives at Dlatamoros, Mexico,
on his passage Into Texas, an route to Richmond.
Gen. Grant sends a letter to the President eon
emulating him on his re-election to the Presi
dency. ,
Rome, Ga., burned by order of Gen. Sherman.
BKTOAT, 11.
General Sheridan’s arm; leaves Cedar Greek for
Winchester in order to get nearer its base of
supplies.
Tie United States gunboat Tulip, of the Potomac
flotilla, explodes her Boiler near Bagged Point at
0.20 P. M.; <>» persons drowned or killed.
A cavalry skirmish takes place In the Shenan
doah Talley between the rebel cavalry and the
United States cavalry under Ouster and MerHtt.
The former are repulsed.
Sherman’s forces, preparatory to their grand
march through Georgia to Savannah, arc dis
tributed as follows: The isth Corps, major
General Osterhaus commanding, and the rrth
Corps, Major General Frank P. Blair command
ing, under General O. O. HowarA posted at Pow
der Spring road, near the Ohattahooohle river; the
20th Ocrpß at Atlanta, under Major General Slo
oum, and the 14th Corps, Brevet Major General
Davis, at Kingston.
BATCKDAY, 12.
The different corps of Sherman’s army concen
trate around Atlanta. _
The advance of tha 14th Corps, In the morning,
more ont from Kingston, oa., leaving the brigade
of Col. Hambrlght at Kingston to cover the ship
ping north of supplies and rolling stock. About
dusk the corps reached OartersvlUe, where the
troops are provisioned, the cltlzOßß given sufficient
to supply their pressing necessities, and the balance
burned, and nearly half of the business portion of
the town laid in ashes.
Another engagement occurs between the United
States cavalry, under Sheridan, in the Shenandoah
Valley, and the rebel cavalry, under 1,0 max. The
totter ate handsomely repulsed and pursued beyond
Ftont Royal by Col. Powell, who captures 2 guns,
ISO prisoners, several wagons, and a large number of
horses.
Admiral Pearson, commanding the American
Squadron in the Pacific, asks permission of the Pre
sident of New Grenada to send the pirates captured
on board of the California steamer, St. Salvador,
across the Isthmus to New York, but It Is refused.
Nine hundred rebel prisoners, who rush Into the
city of Atlanta, oa., to pillage and plunder, think
ing It was evacuated by the Union forces, arrive at
Nashville, Tenn.
Three French ships reach the port of Mazatlan,
Mexico, and a flag of truce is sent ashore to inform
Sen. Rosales that the city would be blockaded on
and after the 13th, and that hostilities would com
mence on the same day,
BUIfDAT, 13.
The 14th Corps of'Sherman’s army remane their
march from Cartersville, tearing up and destroying
the railway as they move, and In the evening reach
Big Shanty.
The rebels construct a dam across a small oreek,
near the Appomattox river, In front of the Union
lines, to drive back the Union picket line. General
Egan constructs works to counteract this, and while
inspecting them at night la wounded by a sharp
shooter. *
The French land troops at Mazaumbo, Mexico,
and take formal possession of the town.
Mazatlsn, Mexico, surrendered to the French.
HOBDAY, 11,
The 11th Corps of Sherman’s army arrives at the
Chattahocchie river, at route to Atlanta, having
destroyed the Chattanooga Railroad, in their rear.
The 16th and 17th Corps inarch one mile south of
Atlanta. Detachments of the 20th Corps set fire to
Atlanta.
The Union forces nnder General GHlem defeated
at Bull’s Gap, Tennessee, by the rebels nnder Gen.
Breckinridge. Four hundred prisoners, ten stand
of colors, six pieces of artillery with caissons and
horses complete, iilty loaded wagons, with teams,
smbnlances, &0., fall Into the hands of the.nsbelß.
Breckinridge advances towards StrawberryTPlalns
and Bean’s Crossroads, threatening Knoxville and
Cumberland Gap.
' Franz Muller executed at Newgate, England, for
* i cdrm si) iSiVevTIAV ffrv’n.rui,- ui>tu iuuimor over
placed on the bosom of the Pacific ocean, success
fully launched at San Franolßoo, California.
General Poulga, a revolutionary exile, with a
crew oi twelve persons, on hoard of a British schoo
ner, captures the officers and crews of two Govern
ment vessels, in the port of Maracaibo, Venezuela.
He then goes ashore, surprises the garrison or a bat
tery and spikes the guns, and, going on board a cap
tured Government vessel, sails away with his
prisoners.
TUBBDA y 15
The 14th Corps of Sherman’s 'army arrive at At
lanta, having destroyed all the bridges, railways,
and everything that could be ol service to the ene
my, the cavalry and straggling negroes having burn
ed quite a number of empty houses In Ackworth and
Cartersvllle, and three or four churches, without
the sanction of Gen. Sherman. The 16th and 17th
Corps encamped on the McDonough road, 2 mites
south of Atlanta. The 20th Corps of Slocum’s co
lumn, under Major Gen. 'Williams, evacuates At
lanta, leaving Knipe’s brigade as provost guard to
destroy public buildings, depots, warehouses, Ac,,
which he promptly does, and moves up a road pa
rallel and to the left of the Augusta and Atlanta
Kaiirood, and encamps three miles southeast ol the
city for the night.
Major Gen. Butler having Issued a farewell order
to the troops In New York, placed under his com
mand during the Presidential election, leaves New
York for Washington.
wbdkbsbav, 16.
The 14th Corps of Sherman’s army, under Brevet
OTsjor General J. C. Davis, unites with the 20th
Corps, under Major General Williams, and hy eight
o’clock A. M. are In motion towards the centre of
Georgia, moving on the Georgia State Kailway,
Williams on the left and Davis on the right, and
passing through Decatur at 9 o’clock. The 14th
Corps halt at Clthonia for the night, where General
Sherman has his headquarters.
The rebels assault and capture a Union picket
line In front of Bermuda Hundred. Union loss 160
men and one colonel.
An expedition organized by General Bailey, and
commanded by Blent. Sterling, of tbe 2d Maine
Cavalry, capture a company of rebels guarding
Barren Bridge, and a number of small arms, in
■Western Florida.
Colonel Edward Montgomery and 36 rebels cap
tured at Oboetaw Bend, en route to Texas. $259,0C0
In foreign exchange captured on the person of Ed
ward Montgomery,
A severe engagement'occurs between tbe Italian
troops and Garibaldlans, at Bagoleno, in Northern
Lombardy; many are blued and wounded on both
sides, some are captured, and tbe rest dispersed.
Christian IX, Xing of Denmark, issues a procla
mation releasing the people of the duchies ceded to
Austria and Prussia, by the treaty of October 30,
from their allegiance to the Banish Crown.
THTTSBBAV X7>
The left wing of Sherman’s army at 9 A. M,
passes threngh Conyers, seven miles from Litbonta,
and In the afternoon Davis destroys the railroad
from Conyers to Tellow river, which Colonel Buel
pontoons, and the column crosses and onoamps for
the night. The rebels capture Major Fox, com
manding the advance of GolonelHobart’s brigade of
Carlin’s division, but his command coming up, the
cavalry abandon Mm and retreat.
The Xing of Denmark Issues three royal procla
mations at Copenhagen. The first releases the In
habitants of the ceded duchies from their oath of
allegiance ; the second Is a farewell address to the
people of Schleswig and Holstein; the third Is ad
dressed to the Banes, and says: “ Tbe separation
from the Kingdom of thoselnhabitants of Schleswig
who were bound to Denmark both by sentiment and
by language, Is the most painful sacrifice of all.
We have lost muoh, but not lost hope. The future
belongs to those who are In earnest.”
VS!DAY, IS.
Senator Hill, of Georgia, makes a frantic appeal
to tbe people' of that state to destroy Sherman’s
army.
The left wing of Sherman’B army passes through
Covington, ten miles from Conyers, and at night
reaches the All&chovie river, where it encamps and
Is joined by foraging parties, who return loaded
with fat stock, horses, grain, and vegetables.
Tbe Georgia Legislature, at MilledgevUle, ad
journs hastily on account of the near approach of
Sherman’s army.
Gen. Wheeler’s rebel cavalry ordered to rendez
vous at Augusta.
A rebel attack on the Union forces at Strawberry
Plains, near Knoxville, Term., repulsed.
BATUBDAY, 19,
A portion of Sherman’s army hums tbe Oconee
bridge five miles above Gordon, Ga.
Governor Joseph E Brown, of Georgia, orders a
levy en masse of all the white population of Georgia,
with a very few exceptions, to assist In defeating
Sherman in his march through the State.
The left wing of Sherman’s army moves along the
Sandtown road; when out about three miles, they
are fired upon by two hundred rebels, who fall to
Injure any one, and retreat. Having marched nine
miles during a rain storm, they encamp for the
night near Sandtown.
General Fry Issues an order at Augusta, Ga., Im
pressing all tbe citizens of Augusta into the sorvico
to assist In repelling Sherman’s forces.
BUHDAY, 20.
The left wing ol Sherman’s army at noon, passes
through Shady Dale, and encamps for the night
near Eatonton.
The Mayor of MilledgevUle surrenders the oity
formally to Capt. Duncan and fire soouts belonging
to Howard's headquarters.
mohday, 21.
Gen. Burbrldge advances towards Powell’sbrldge,
six miles from Cumberland Gap, and engages In a '
heavy skirmish with the rebels, in order to protect
tbe Kentucky border from an Invasion of Breckin
ridge’s forceß.
A number of Confederate soldiers and two or
three officers from Tennessee, disguised as ootton
dealers, arrive in Memphis and offer their cotton for
sale, but are all arrested by order of the military
authorities'of the place.
The 20th Corps of Sherman’s army occupy Mll
ledgevlile one,day lu advance of the 14th Corps.
Gen. Sherman’s forceß,under Slocum, at IIA. M-,
arrive at a point three miles west of Union Point,
at the junction of the Athens bramoh with the main
stem of the Georgia Railroad,
Kobt. H. May, tbe Mayor ot Angusta, Ga , issues
a proclamation requiring all places where spiritu
ous and intoxicating liquors are retailed to be closed
until further order.
TUESDAY, 22.
The advance of the 14th Corps of Sherman’s army
at 12 M. encamp In the city or MilledgevUle.
Three brigades of rebel militia and two regiments
of State-Hue troops, the .Atlanta and Augusta bat-,
talion, under command of GenerM PhlUlps,engage
a portlon of Sherman’aforoes, under General WM
cott, at Grlswoldvllla, nine mlto* bom Maoon, at«
o’clock M,' 4CO rebel* are left dead on the field.'
U A°portton9f theflag-of-truM fleet Wfttte
nab leaves for the North tilth some of the exohanged
Union prisoners In a most deplorable condition.
Brigadier General A. Lee, commanding tne Union
cavalry at Baton Rouge, returns trim a successful
expedition to Liberty and Broohvllle, Miss., bring
ing with him 200 prisoners, 26 oflloers, S pleoes of ar
tillery, and 800 horses and mules; rode by negroes,
having destroyed a large quantity of stores on
the Jaebson Ballroad.
Tho rebel General Braxton Bragg leaves'Wtt
mlngton, N. 0., -with reinforcements for Augusta,
Ga.
Governor Bonham, of South Carolina, nails out the
militia ana reserves of the State of south Carolina,
to rendezvous at Bamburg, to Impede the advance
of Sherman on Augusta.
The Mexioan General Ortega defeated at Mazat
lan, with a loss of too killed', including two generals
and many prisoners. General Espinola and all his
staff captured. General Miramon was detected In'
a conspiracy and sent out of the country.
WBPffKSPAY, 23.
, Sneimfen’s army engaged la akirmlßhing with tke
KvdlSi
The Union army, under General Thomas, with
draws from Pulaski to Columbia, Tenn. -
Sherman’s forces evacuate Grlswoldvllle, Ga.
TBUBBBAY, 44,
MOO Union prlsoneis confined at Salisbury, N.
O, attempt to escape, but are overpowered by the
rebel guards, who kill some and wonnd a number of
others.
The rebel army under Hood occupies Waynesbo
ro, threatening both Nashville, Tennessee, and Pa
ducah, KentnoKy, The tJnlon atm; under Thonias
occupy Pulaski. Severe skirmishing occurs be
tween the t.wo forces,- with a Union loss of 44 killed
and wounded, and a rebel loss of 204, -
Thirty guerillas, under Jesse enter Shelbyvllle,
Tennessee, and rob stores, &c. A. Union force from
Frankfort, Kentucky, Is sent to Intercept them.
Slocum, commanding the left wing of Sherman’s
army, mores upon Saundersvllle, the county seat
of Washington county, with Davis on the left and
Williams along the Georgia Central Kailway to the
right. Gen. Morgan, commanding an advance fo
raging party of the 14ih Corps, Is attacked by
Wheeler with 1,600 cavalry. The fofagera, 160
strong, dismount and drive 'Wheeler Into and
through the town, killing and wounding ten and
losing six. A brigade drives Wheeler In oonfusion
out of the town, burns the court house and a
number of shops, and gats the,houses and stores, In
retaliation for having been flred upon. . -t
FKIDAY, 25,
Some rebel Incendiaries attempt to set fire to the
city ol New York; a number ot' public buildings
are set on fire, but no serious damage Is done.
Sherman's forces evacuate MilledgevUle.
General Humphreys assumes command of the fid
Corps o( the Army of the Potomac, instead of Ge
neral Hancock, appointed to the command ol
20,000 veteran troops to be raised In Washington
between December 1, IBM, and January 1,1865.
Baron Welders tad t, the Swedish minister at
Washington, leaves Havana for Mexico, to officially
recognize the Mexican Umpire.
Lord Bussell, in reply to the manifesto of the
rebel Congress, says that Great Britain desires to
retain a neutral position In the olvil war waging In
America.
BATUKDAY, 26.
The advance of Hood’s army, under General Frank
Cheatham, occupies Waynesboro; the other taro
corps,commanded by Generals Stewart and Lee, re
spectively, occupy Florence, Ala., and "Corinth,
Bliss., Beauregard ! s headquarters being at Corinth,
and Hood’s at Florence.
Ttie President refuses to reoelve the peace letter
addresEed to him and signed by 300,000 persona in
England.
General Foster issues an order for all the citi
zens of Port Koyal, S. 0., to be enrolled and report
for duty on the 27th, and to be formed Into oompa
nies for borne protection.
General Dix Issues an Older declaring that If ah;
of the parties engaged In the ydot of burning the
city of New York are deteoted they will be tried by,
court martial, and If convicted will be exeahted
without the delay of a single day.
The Spanish Uag-shlp at Ohlnoha destroyed by
fire.
BUKBA.Y, 27 e
The blockade-runner Beatrice rang ashore near
Charleston and Is destroyed, and 30 of her crew oap-’
tnred. , -- ;
An expedition under Colonel E. D.'OSband; 83"
Colored Cavalry, gent outfroaiVioksburgtoent off;
Hood’s army from the large quantity of supplies
aha stores at Jackson, Mississippi, capture and de
stroy the Big Black bridge on the'M&sisslppl Cen
tral Ballroad.
Another expedition under General Davidson
leaves Baton Rouge to out off the railroad comma*?
mention between Mobile and Hood’s army, ond-de-
Btroys a great amount of stores and other property.
The United States forces under Gen. Kilpatrick
and Wheeler’s rebel cavalry have an engagement at
Big Creek near the Waynesboro road.
A portion of Sherman’s forces visit Demar&’s
Ferry, on the Savannah river, and remain seme
time taking observations.
MoanAv, 28.
The 14th Corps' of Sherman’s army reaches the
Ogeeehee river, In Williamson Swamp. Col. Buel
pontoons the river, and corduroys about half a mile
of the swamp for the passage of the wagons.
Baird’s and Morgan’s dlvlslonsmoveon Louisville
while Carlin makes a detour via Davlaboro for toe
same point.
The 20th Corps move along the Georgia Central
Hallway, demolishing It thoroughly.
Another fight occurs between Wheeler’s aSfLKil
patrick’s cavalry. In Georgia. -""-riser
Hew Creek, on the Baltimore and Ohio Ballroad,
captured and burned at 1 A. M. by 1,500 rebels, who
then march to Piedmont and destroy the round
house of the Baltimore and Ohio Ballroad Compa
ny, a largo workshop and a great quantity of valua
ble machinery, after which they leave In a souther
ly direction, pursued by the Union forces. .
A rebel attack on ShelbyviUe, Term.) repulSMby
the Union garrison, who shortly alter evacuate the ;
place, when It Is occupied by the rebels.
The first excursion train from the eastern ten- *
minus of the Union Pacific Ballroad starts bom
Wyandotte, Kansas,and runs through to Lawrence,
a distance of thirty-eight miles.
TUBSDAT, 29.
Davis’ colqmn, of the left wing of Shem&d’s
army, reaches Louisville, Jefferson county. -
An expedition under General Foster leaves Port
Boyal, goes up Broad river accompanied by several
gunboats, and a portion of It marches-towards the*
Savannah and Charleston Ballroad,ln the direction •
of Great Swamp.
. A sharp fight occurs at Spring Hill, twelve miles
north of Franklin, Tennessee, between a portion of
Thomas’ and Hood’s army, In which the Union ca
valry are driven back upon the Union l"<~-"*-y>lark
which check the rebel advance.
An atrocious rebel plot to burn the Memphis »®f'
Charleston Ballroad depot and the-Government
stores, valued at *2,000.000, discovered'by the United
States detectives. Dr. McMillan, proprietor of the
Charleston House, at Memphis, ana a number of the
incendiaries ore arrested.
Major General Gadwalader assumes oommaSfu of
the Department of the Susquehanna, In place of
General Couch, assigned to duty under General
Thomas, In Tennessee. - s 9”
The President announces) by proclamation, the
periect ratification of the treaty, between the United
States and Belgium, for the extinction of the jgj&eiat -
to tub Mexican capital. ;;
Wednesday, so. . 'J. -v
The Ist pivlslon o£ the 14th Corps of SSramaniti
army, under Carlin, advances towards Barton Sta- 1
tlon, on the Centra] Hallway, for the pasaase of'
plying battle to some rebel cavalry reporteutnere.
At night it reaches the bridge across the Qgeaofiae,
and finds the 17 th Oorpß croislng to the sooth side.
The expedition under Gen. Poster, sent -ont from
Port Royal to co-operate with Gen, Sherman, at 11
A. M.,-with 18 pieces of artillery, attack a rebel
force at Honey Hill, three miles east of Grabams
yllie, S. C., and after an engagement lasting sis
hours, In which several charges were made on both
sides, return to the protection of the gunboats on
Broad river. Hebei lots between 600 ansi
Union Ices 1,800 men killed and woundesL.jrebel re
port.)
The rebels under Hood, at 4 P. M., attack the
Union troops under-Thomas, at Franklin, 'Tenn.,
18 miles south of Nashville, on their way to take
up a new position within three miles of Nashville,
bat are repulsed with a lots of 1.406 killed, 3,800
wonndeo, and 1,000 rebel prisoners, lnolndlng one
brevet brigadier general, Col. Gordon, and thirty
battle flags. Union loss 2,000. The rettyls lose one
major general and five brigadier generala'SlUed,
one major general and eta brigadier generals
wounded, and one brigadier generaLcagturefi.
The resignation of Edward Bates, A'fboinievGeiie.
ral of the United States, goes Into effect. me posi
tion Is tendered to Advocate General Jos. Holt, of
Kentucky, but 1b declined,
An expedition ftom Memphis, under Col, Kerge,
captures 40- rebels of Lyle’s and Adams’ men, 15
mites from. Memphis, on the Arkansas side of the
Mississippi river.
DECEMBER.
TBUBBDAY, DECBMBERI..
Gen. Gregg makes a reconnotssance to Stony-
Creek Station, on the Weldon Railroad, In order to
ascertain whether Gen. Lee is rein
forcements south to impede Sherman in his march
to the seaocast. Ho is unable to obtain the desired
Information, but attacks the rebels at Stony-Creek
Station, capturing two guns, which he spikes, de
stroys all the carriages, and also captures 190 priso
ners, 8 wagons, and 30 mules, and bums the depot
with 3,600 sacks of corn, 500 bales of hay, a train of
oars, and a large quantity of military stores,• -**-•
Hood’s army crosses the Harpeth river, Tenn!,
closely following the Union army under Thomas. -
The Papal Nuncio leaves Yera Crass for the City
of Mexico. The minister from Sweden to Wash
ington arrives at the same time, on his way to
Mexico, on a special mission to recognize Maximili
an, the new emperor.
The 2d and 3d Divisions'of the 14th Corps of
Sherman’s army, under Baird and Morgan, move
on the direct Waynesboro road, ano make a feint on
Augusta and the flank of W heeler’s rebel cavalry,
which had skirmished all the previous day with ’
Kilpatrick, four miles southeast.of- BbulavUle. The
Ist Division of the 14th Corps, Under Carlin, mover
about five miles on Wheeler’s left' flank, betwee?
him and the railway. The 17th Corps .tears up the
railway from.the polut reached by the 20th Oorp3,
-towaroß Millen, 1 while Howard, with the 15th, 1
crosses the river, and commences'Ji forward move-j
ment to Millen, where the’ ‘Augusta- Railroad
branches off from the Central Railway.
VRTDAY, 2. j
The feint on Augusta continued by way. of the;
Waynesboro road, the 20th and 14th Corps coming'
together near Buokhead Creek, from which .point
Davis strikes off towards Lumpkin’s StatlonTbe
tween Waynesboro and Millen. ’ c
The right wing of Sherman’s army, under Howard,
arrives at Millen. .
Sherman’s army breaks camp at-Louisville, Ga.,
and moves towards No. 9, on the Georgia Central
road, the 14th and 20th Corps being in advance.
Col. Yerkes’ expedition returns to Memphis, hav
ing captured 900 stand of arms at Osoeola, which
were being sent from Selma, Ala., to Gen. Price.
Hon Wm. Lewis Dayton, United States minister
to France, dies at Paris.
SATURDAY, 3.
Gen. Kilpatrick’s cavalry drives Wheeler beyond
Waynesboro, in the d irectlorr of-. Augusta, and tears
up' the trackandburns the bridges over Brier Greek,
Buckbead Creek, and several smaller streams.
The 14th Corps, nnder Gen. Davis, arrives at Mil
len. The 3d Dfvlswnof the 14th Corps, under Baird,
on the left, supports Kilpatrick’s cavalry.
SUNDAY, 4.
Thelst Division of the 14th Corps,' under Carlin,
destroyed the railway from Lumpkin’s Station
towards the 17th Corps, which operates north
towards the left wing.
An attack on the 3d Brigade of the Ist Division of
the 14th Corps by a squad of rebel cavalry repulsed
by Lieutenant Colonel McMahon, of the 21st Ohio,
whose regiment forms the rear guard.
The three-masted schooner L. O. Wood oaptured
off the coast of Texas by the United States steamer
Chocura.
The rebel steamer Armstrong captured in lat.
32 deg. 50 min., 170 miles southeast from Wilming
ton, N. C., by the United States gunboat B. K,
Guyler.'
An expedition,' consisting of 2,000 cavalry and
eight pieces of artillery, sent ont by General Canby
under the command of Colonel E. D. Oaband to out
off Hood's communications with Mobile, returns to
Vicksburg, having destroyed thirty miles of rail
road, including culvert and wagon bridge over the
Big Black river, and oaptnre 2,600 bales of eotton,
two locomotives, four cars, four stage-ooaehes,
twenty barrels of salt, $162,000 or stores at Yaughn’s
Station.
Wheeler’s rebel cavalry attack General Kil
patrick's cavalry at. Walker's bridge, Ga., but are
repulsed.
Lieutenant Commander Fiteh defeats and drives
the left wing of Hood’s army fr6m the Cumberland
river, with heavy loss to the rebels, and recaptures
two transports from the rebels, with no loss on the
Union side.
A portion of United States cavalry, under Mar
ritt, devastate the oountry Infested by Moseby’s
guerillas, capturing 2,000 head of cattle, 1,000 sheep,
and Some prisoners.
A portion of Sherman’s forces occupy Brannin’s
bridge, on Brier Creek, slxteen'miles from the Sa
vannah river, end all the roads leading thereto.
MONDAY, 6.
The Ist and 2d Divisions of the 14th Corps, under
Carlin and Morgan, reach Jaoksonboro, In. Soriveh
county, before dark, havlng peseed through a bar
ren waste, swamps, See. The 31 Division of the 14th
Corps unite with the other divisions forming the
corps, and meet General Kilpatrick, who soundly
• whips Wheeler at Wayneshoro. - <
The British steamer Lot; Harley, or Montreal, cap
tured off the coast of Texas by the U. S. steamer-
Ohooura.
.The sohoonor Julia captured off Brazos river by a
U. S. steamer.
The second session of the Thirty-eighth Congress
meetsaYWashlngton--. ; c
Tuesday. 6. -
The Mth Corps of Sherman's army owes forward'
withe direct Savannah road, Kilpatrick covering
-toe rear and flanks, and at night halt near toe Sa
vannah river, eighteen miles southeast of JackSan
boioi and tone miles from the 20th Corps, moving
on a parallel road to the right.
p. Chase confirmed by the Senate as
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of toe United
States, In place of Roger B. Taney, deceased.
A joint naval and land expedition under Admiral
Dahigren and Gen. Foster sails up the Bread river
and destroys the Pooctaligo bridge, 35 miles from
Savannah, on the railroad from Charleston to Sa
vannah.
An expedition which left Norfolk, Ys., on toe 3d
inste, to break up the contraband trade between toe
city of Norfolk and-Roanoke Island, returns,having
marched for several miles into the counties of Here
lord and Bertie, surprising a company of rebel sol
diers, burning their oamp, with large quantities of
arms and accoutrements.
The advance of. Sherman’s army have a Skirmish
with the rebels at Station Two-and-a-Half, 25 miles
bom Savannah,
The rebel Gen. Beauregard arrives at Augusta,
Georgia.
An expedition, consisting of the 2d and 6th Corps
and a portion of Gregg's cavalry, under Gen. War*
ren, leaves Petersburg.
A portion of the U. S. forces under General Bur
bridge occupy Beau’s Station, East Tennessee, com
pelling Breckinridge to withdraw his entire force,
except a small cavalry detachment, beyond Boll’s
Gap.
WEOMKBHAY, T.
The left wing of Sherman's army moves along fee
Savannah road, with Kilpatrick still oovorlng the
rear. At 10 A. M. Ferguson’s brigade of rebel ca
valry attack two regiments of Union oavalry, bat
are routed by tbe 3d division of the Htb Corps, un
der General Baird. At » p. M. tbo advance en
camps near Ebenezer Greek, having marched is
miles.
Howard’s left wing occupies Guytown, on the Un
ion and savannah Hallroad, while the right crosses
. the Ogeeohee river at Eden."
Gen. Warren’s expedition In the morning march
towards Stony Creek Station, on the Weldon ttall
road, and in the afternoon oroBS over the Nottaway
river.
The steamers Prlma Donna, Prairie State, and
Magnet, captured, yesterday, by the rebels on the
Cumberland river, recaptured by the U. S. gunboat
Carol delet.
Tbe rebel General Beauregard arrives In Charles
ton, and Immediately leaves for the scene of hostili
ties on the Charleston and Savannah Kail road.
TETTER DAY, 8. . . .
The left wing of Sherman’s army pass over Ghee
ver’s Swamp, and, after proceeding a mile, reach
Ebenezer Creek, a tributary of the Savannah. Pon
' toons are thrown across, but the troops do not get
o rer until dark. The rebels under Ferguson harass
the rear and flanks, and attack Atkins’ oavalry
brigade, but are repulsed by tbe Ist and 3d Divi
sions of the 14th Corps, under Baird and Carlin.
A rebel gunboat from Hudson’s Ferry shells the
road on which the left wing, in line of battle lrom
the Savannah river, awaits the 'crossing of the 2d
Division under Morgan, and the trains over Ebene
zer Creek, but without inflicting damage.
Warren’s expedition arrives at Jarrett’s Station
on the Weldon Hallroad, 32 miles from Petersburg.
Some Union cavalry make a reeonnolssanoe to
wards Hatcher’s Bun, to divert the attention of the
rebels from Warren’s expedition.
MIBAY, 9.
The left wing of Sherman’s army, at 2 A, M , en
- oanips at Ebenezer Church, having crossed Ebenezer
-and another small stream, and then marches toward
a swamp, 15 miles from Savannah, where the Au
• gusta and Macon Bailroads unite, There they And
a rebel fort which Carlin, of the Ist Dlvlslon of the
, 14th Corps, flanks atid captures, with two oalssons.
i The United States gunboat Naroissus blown up in
.Mobile Bay by a rebel torpedo.
The left wing of Sherman’s army nndor Howard
strikes the canal connecting the Ogeeohee and Sa
vannah rivers, at a point 10 miles west of Savannah.
General Howard sends three scouts down the Ogee
chee river to communicate with the United States
fleet in Otsabaw Sound.
General Warren’s expedition arrives at a point
near Hlcksford, on the Meherrin river, but finding
the rebels In strong force, prepare to return to Fe
. tersburg.
The blockading squadron off Galveston capture S
blockade-runners off the coast of Texas during the
past week.
BATtrBDAT, 10.
The 17th Corps of Sherman’s army occupies a
position on the canal and Georgia Central Railway,
six miles ftom Savannah.
A email squad of foragers from tbe 20th Corps of
-Sherman’s arm? capture and bum tbe steamer
"Water Witch-on tbe Savannah river.
Tbe British sohooner Sorto captured at Anolote
Keys, Fla., and. tbe schooner Peep of Day by a
vessel of tbe East Cult Blockading Squadron.
At 7 A. M., tbe rebels under Dee make a reoon*
nolssenee along tbe whole line to ascertain the
strength of Grant’s army.
Twenty-five hundred rebels, under General Lyon,
cross the Cumberland river twenty miles below
Clarksville, and move towards Hopkinsville, Ky.
BTJNDAT, 11.
The 20th Corps of Sherman’s army strike the
Savannah and Charleston BaUroad ten miles from
the city, and tear It up from the point where It
cresses the Savannah river to within four miles of
the city, and develop the enemy’s position.
- The left wing of Sherman’s army Invests tha clty
of Savannah, the 20th Corps resting on the Savan
nah river so as to prevent an attack from the gun
boats, and the 14th Corps on the left centre re
lieving the 17th Corps.
A rebel transport sunk In the Savannah river by
Gen. Sherman’s artillery.
Three scouts from General Howard communicate.
with the gunboat Dandelion of Admiral Dahlgren’s
fleet off Ossabaw Sound.
Tie 25th Ohio Regiment, under Captain Goraud
of Fester’s staff, surprise, a rebel fort at Chnrch
Bridge, near Focotalfgo, South Carolina, capturing
.two 24>ponnders, ana causing the rebels to leave
precipitately.
MOHDAT, 12.
Tbe XT. S. gunboat Dandelion, with three'soouts
from Sherman’s army, arrives at Port Royal, S. O.
. Gen. Sherman arrives before Sajannati, having
passed through 42 of the finest grain and cotton
counties of Georgia, captured and’Tbboupled over
200 towns and villages, destroyed ©very railroad on
the route, brought out 7,000 negroes, 10,000 horses
and mules, burned all the bridges, burned or bond
ed every cotton gin ahd building on the route, and
from $30,000,000 to $40,000,000 of ootton, captured
several millions of rebel'currency, some gold, 100,000
head of cattle, 4,000 prisoners, and subsisted the
army for one month on the rebels with a loss of only
1,000 men.
TtJBSDAV, 13.
' Fort McAllister, on the Ogeechoe Biver, Captured
by Gen. Hazen’s Division ofthe 15th Corps of Sher
man’s army, with 23 guns, 1 mortar, its commander,
Major Anderson, 12 officers, 198 enlisted men, all
the officers, $25,000 worth of choice wines. Bobel
Ipss 14 killed and 21 wounded. Union loss 23 killed
ahd 82 wounded. -
Sherman destroys all the railroads leading into
Savannah, and nearly completes the Investment of
the city.
A large naval expedition under Admiral Porter,
consisting of 65 vessels and 570 guns, with a co-ope
under Butler and Weltzel, leaves
Hampton Roads, V a., r... w..—m. o -
’ The St. Albans raiders releasetTfrom custody by
Judge Coureal, of Canada, on the plea that the war
rant by which they were arrested was not signed by
the Governor General of Canada.
Gen. Bnrbrldgc routs Basil Duke’s brigade (form
erly John Morgan’s) at Kingsport, Tenn., with a
loss to the rebels of 150 killed, wounded and prison
ers. and their trains.
Bristol, Tenn., captured at 3 A. M. by Gen. Gil
lem, of Stoneman’s expedition, with 250 prisoners,
2 trains of cars, 5 engines, and Immense quantities
of stores.
•WEDNESDAY, 14.
An expedition, under Generals Stoneman and
BurbrSCge, make a raid In Breckinridge’s rear, and
capture Bristol, Tenn.
Gen. Dlx issues an order directing persons living
along the Canada border to Bhoot down any rebel
raiders from Canada they may find, and to pursue
them Into Oanad a If necessary, and arrest them and
bring them to his headquarters to be tried.
Cant. Bridgewater, with 125 men, enters New
Castle, Ky., and drives out the rebel Jesse’s com
mand, with a loss to the latter of 13 killed and
wounded. v
Abblngdon, W. Va., with one gun, a large amount
of stores, an engine, and some rolling stock, oap
tured by a portion of Stoneman’s expedition. -
The i ebel Gen. Yaughan’s command defeated at
Marlon by Gen. Gilloin, of Stoneman’s expedition,
at Marion, W. Va„ with a loss to the former of 60
Srlaoners. Gen. Glllem then pursues the rebels to
lonnt Airy, where he drives them In confusion,
capturing some prisoners, 7 pidccs of cannon, and a
large wagon train. Later In the day, Col. Brown,
with his brigade, charges the rebel home guard of
Wjthevllle, capturing 6 pieces of cannon and 8 eais
sons.
THURSDAY, 15.
General Thomas attackß the left wing of Hood’s
rebel army In front of Nashville at 9 A. M., driving
him Irons the Cumberland river to below the city,
very nearly to the Franklin pike, a distance of eight
miles,having captured Chalmers headquarters and
train, and a second train of about twenty wagons,
with 1,000 prisoners and 16 pieces of artillery.
During the night Hood withdraws his right from
the Cumberland river and takes a new position,
covering Hillsboro, Grawey, White, and Franklin
pikes.
. The Canadian Cabinet denounce the conduot of
Judge Coursal, the magistrate, and Lamothe, the
chief of police, In releasing the St. Albans raiders
from custody.
The expedition under Generals Stoneman and
Burbridge, operating In Gen. Breckinridge’s rear,
capture Glade Spring, a depot thirteen mues south,
of Abingdon, Va.
General Rosseau’s command attacks and routs
part of Forrest’s force near Murfreesboro. Rebel
loss 1,600 killed and wounded.
An expedition nnder the command of Aotteg Mas
ter. Morris captures 31 large boats and 2 scows,
massed by the rebels on the Coon river, Northum
berland county, Ye., for a raid on Chesapeake Bay.
A rebel force, 1,500 strong, cross the swamps of the
Big Black river to escort the pirate Semmes across
the Mississippi river. .
Three hundred picked men, nnder Major Harrl
'■ son, of the Mth Kentucky Regiment, of Stoaeman’s
expedition, cut the Virginia Railroad at Glade
Spring and capture two trains of oars, then get in
Vaughan's front and destroy all the nridges and de
pots as far as WythevlUe, a large amount of rolling
stock, and the great iron works near Marlon.
FRIDAY, 16.
Gen. Thomas renews the battle before Nashville,
attacking the rebels under Hood In their new posi
tion, covering Hillsboro, Grawey, White, and
Franklin pikes, driving them out of their entrench
ments, capturing 30 cannon and a large number of
prisoners.
Union loss in the battles of the 15th and leth Inst,
about 3,000. Rebel loss 0,500 prisoners and 7,000
killed and wounded.
Fart of the rebel Gen. Lyon’s command, operating
In the rear of the Union army.at Nashville, defeated
by Gen. E. D. McCook at Hopkinsville, Ky.
Gen. Sherman demands the surrender of Savan
nah,
SATURDAY, 17, .
. Gen. Thomas pursues the rebels under Hood be
yond FrankHnlcapturinKtheir hospitals, containing
over 3.000 rebel and 100 Union wounded, pressing
them both in front and on both flanks. Gen. Wil
son, at 6 P. M., disperses Stevenson’s division of
rebel cavalry, forming the rear-guard of Hood’s
army, capturing 200 prisoners and 5 battle flags.
The President revokes Gen. Six’s order of the
14th Inst., and Issues an order requiring all travel
lers from foreign countries, except emigrant pas
sengers directly entering an American port by sea,
•to have a passport; this regulation to apply ohlofly
to persons proposing to dome from the neighboring
British provinces.
ETTKDAY, 18.
Gen. Thomas continues the pursuit of Hood’B ra
bel army, capturing about soo prisoners. Including
Brigadier General Quarles, wounded, and a number
of others lying In the houses by the roadside, wound
ed, and unable to get away.
_ MONDAY, 19. _
Gen. Thomas continues the pursuit of Hood’s re
bel army to Duck river.
TUESDAY, 20.
The rebel cavalry under Forrest form a junction
with Hood’s army .at Columbia, Tonn.,lnlila retreat
from Nashville.
Gen. Hardee and 16,009 rebels under his com
mand, ' garrisoning Savapnah, evacuate the city,
crossing the Savannah rlverto the Union causeway,
oh the opposite side, under cover of two tron-elads,
which they shortly afterwards blow up, and burn
the navy yard.
°«en. Burbrldge’* command capture and destroy
the salt works at Saltvllle, In Southwest Virginia.
Gen. Burbrldge attacks the rebels under Breckin
ridge, near -Marlon, West Virginia, and, after an
engagement ot thlrty-Elx hours, compels him to re
treat towards Saltvllle, but Col. Buckley, having
got in his rear, forces him in confusion towards
North Carolina, after which Gen. Burbrldge de
stroys the salt works and eight pieoea of artillery.
WBDRBSDAY, 21.
The President orders a draft for soo.ooo more men
to Bupply the deficiency In the one ordered July M,
'lBB4a
, Rear Admiral Farragut nominated Vice'Admlral.
Savannah captured by General Sherman’s forces.
With 800 prisoners, 160 guns, IS locomotives in good
condition, MO oars, a large supply of ammunition
and materials of war, S steamers, and S3,oos,bales of
, General Thomas’ troops still.continue the pursuit
of the flying rebels, under Hood, across Duck river.
Union loss since the isthinst.,7,ooo In killed, wound-'
. ed, and missing. Rebel .loss—6l guns, 18,000 small
arms, 8,000 killed, 6,000 prisoners, Including 3,000
wounded left at Franklin, Term. '
•rHUBSDAY, 33. , ;
. Hood’s rebel army reaches Fulaskl, hotly pur
stum by-the Union oavalry. . 7*. i *
FSTOAY, 23,
?«&«»»* wiitene«a to ittprisoament for 20
wars for robMng *»• betweeK Bostan ana
l?B*VArfc by the President* »,»«frai
The monster hanflrat yards
s«vsi-.s ,
** SSSggaSißt.j' .^at
bound from New Orleans to , We s^2S/2ftW 6l s£>
sea in latitude 81.10 N. f and longitude 78.40 W. feix
ty-two Uvea saved and 197 lost'
" SATURDAY* 24. _ r
Admiral Porters fleet atfcaofc Fort Fisdicftone or
the defences of Wilmington, N. 0., at 1 A* M.
Two divisions of Lee’s army reinforce Fort* isaer.
Gen. &teadman« with a large force, reaches i/eca
tur, in pursuit of Hood ’a rebel army*
SUITDAY, 25. .
Admiral Porter’s fleet renews the attack on Fort
Fisher. Under cover of tbe gunboats and Iron-claas,
three brigades of infantry are landed 2% miles above
the fort. ..
The advance of Thomas’ army continuing the
pursuit of the rebel army under Hood, reaches a
point 21 miles south of Columbia.
Fort Fisher bombarded seven hours by Admiral
Porter’s fleet.
TFBBBAY, ST. „ ,
The United States gunboats under Admiral T,ee
destroy a fort, two guns, and two oalssons, at Ohlclc
asaw, and all the visible means to transport Hood’s
rebel army across the Tennessee river below Flo
rence, Alabama.
PRTOA.T, 30.
The remains of tbe Hon. Wm. L. Dayton, Unltoa
States Minister to Franoo, brooglit to Hew York
by thesteamsbip Lafayette.
Jrrsj.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 51,'1864.
1804.
As this is the last opportunity we shall
have of addressing our readers in the year
1864, we take occasion to present a com
plete summary of all the events that have
marked its place in the world’s history.
To us it has been an eventful year, and in
coming limes it will, be remembered with
pride. As the first year of Emancipation
it maiks an era in the history of the world,
for we have passed through the ordeal of
war to the accomplishment of a great social
and moral problem. This has been done
With the sword and fire; and now, as we
are about to pass into another New Year of
anxiety, and probation, and effort, nothing
can be more profitable than a retrospect of
the closing year, and by comparison with
the progress of other nations to see how
far we have advanced in our duty as a peo
ple. Has Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-four
been duly employed ? Have we done our
part in the great work that belongs to us as
a people just as much as works of charity,
and benevolence, and truth belong to us as
citizens ? What have our neighbors been
doing ? How is it with the countries far
away? with people of strange tongues and
different opportunities ? Above all, how
shall we pass through the great humiliation
to the great exaltation? This is the time
for self-examination, and such is the main
feature of our duty to-day.
Of course the subject that most interests
us in. this review is the progress of our
armies in the suppression of the great re
bellion. We shouid be rejoiced in this
new year if we could convey the an
nouncemenfethat peace reigned over the
RepubliSfTOt we can find a gratification
almost as great in reviewing the cam
paigns that have taken place. The be
ginning of the year found our armies at
rest. General Rosecbans had failed to
drive Johnston before Chattanooga, and
the illustrious Grant was beginning to
magnetize the lethargic armies of the
West by the influence of his own personal
genius. The country was rejoicing over
the victory of Lookout Mountain; and
early in January we find Grant on a tour
of inspection through the military depart
ments of East Tennessee and Kentucky.
Longstbeet was menacing Knoxville,
Lee held the line of the Rappahannock
and threatened Washington and Pennsyl
vania, Sherman was busily driving the
rebels out of the valley of the--Yazoo,
while the rebel armies of Texas and Ar
kansas were quietly concentrating against
General Banks. Our armies were ma
noeuvring for positions. We trace Smith’s
expedition on its way from Tennessee to
Louisiana, and we find Shebman busily
destroying the railroads and military de
pots in Mississippi. The first engage
ment of the year is a little affair between
Forrkst and A. J. Smith, which furnishes
no practical results. Grant’s lieuten
ants having destroyed the rebel resources
in the valley of the Mississippi, and pre
vented the army of Mobile from moving to
the relief of Johnston, we find him taking
up mat march "'through Georgia "which
Sherman afterwards continued with, such
magnificent success. In the latter part of
February the Army of the West moved
from Ringgold towards Dalton, and Long
stbeet retired from East Tennessee. This
was the end of the rebel occupation of that
devoted country, and one of the most grati
fying circumstances connected with the
campaigns of 1864 is the fact that we have
been able to hold patient, loyal, long-suffer
ing East Tennessee against the whole rebel
army. In Virginia, Kilpatrick started
on his romantic expedition against Rich
mond/ which achieved no practical re
sult aid cost us the life of the gallant
young Dahlgben. Sherman was in New
Orleans consulting with Banks as to his
Red-river campaign, while all along
the Southern coasts the nation seemed
to be at rest. In the beginning of March
the gunboats of Porter, and a detachment
of Sherman’s army, concentrated on the
Red river for the purpose of assisting Gen.
Banks. Grant became commander-in
chief of the armies of the United States;
and on the 12th of March we find Sher
man taking command of the whole mili
tary division of the Mississippi. General
A. J. Smith captured Fort De Russey, on
the Red river, and Banks moved up
through Louisiana to Alexandria. This
unfortunate expedition was the only failure
of our military year. -Banks occupied
Alexandria in force, and early in April con
centrated at Grand Ecore. At a point
called Wilson’s Farm, about fifty miles
from Natchitoches, a battle was fought be
tween his army and that of the Con
federates under the command of Maj. Gen.
Tavlob, On the first day, owing to some
-mismanagement, the Federal army was
routed, and, on the next day, having re
treated to Pleasant Hill (a point about ten
miles distant from the scene of the first
day’s engagement), Banks defeated the
rebels, and insured his successful and unin
terrupted retreat to Grand Ecore. There
is no doubt that had it not been for the
eccentric character of the waters of the
Red river and the wildness Of the country
occupied by the Union army, General
Banks would have succeeded in recover
ing from the disaster of Wilson’s Farm,
and taken Shreveport. But the waters of
the Red river suddenly fell, and the great
expedition of Fobteb was thus placed in
a peril which it required the exertions of
the army and the navy to avoid. So our
armies retreated back to New Orleans,
and the territory of Louisiana, with the
exception of those points held by our
forces, was 'entirely abandoned to the
rebel sway. Now that we can speak of
the Red-river expedition with something
of historical accuracy, we think it will be
found that a great deal of the. censure vi
sited upon General Banks for his manage
ment of that campaign was unjust. It is
known that he moved upon Shreveport
against his own judgment; and, when, the
secret details of that campaign are given
to the world by the cold and impartial pen
of the historian, it will he, seen, that ulte
rior influences in Banks? own army con
spired to produce As- overthrow. It was
not for the Administration of Mir. Lincoln
to investigate thisbut judging. Banks by
the violent yet necessary test of success.,
General Carry superseded Mm, and w tjs
placed in command of all the divisions of
the army lying west of the Missis
sippi river. Another expedition into pi 0 -
I rida, under command of Gen. Seymour,
iwMch seems, also, to- have been, rashly
: managed, was defeated at Olustee. with a
severe lobs. These two disasters ushered
in the military year; and although in EM*
material effect on the prospects b.f the war
they were trifling, still they aorved to de
press and dishearten the country. In the
beginning of March we find the Lieutenant
General of the army at Washington, as
suming formally command of the armies
•of the United States, He had just left
: Sherman , to complete the Work which he
himself began, and, with toe energy neck
liar to his character, set immediately about
| the task of reorganizing the Army of the
I Fetomac, Hancock, Sedgwick, and
L Warren •were placed in command of the
i three principal corps, while Meade re
tained Ms old position. General Bot
lEK w»b assigned to the Depart
ment of Virginia, and, in addition to
the defences of Norfolk and the James,
was charged with the operations of a co
operating army. The Lieutenant General
took the field at Culpeper on the 34th of
March, and in the latter part of that month
we find him reviewing his new command.
While the-country was smarting under oar
defeats in Arkansas and Louisiana, Grant
was busily at work in Virginia. The
Army of the Pbtomac was weeded out;
half-hearted and timid generals were sent
te distant and unimportant fieldsofseryice,
and those who had served the country well
were assigned to important positions-. The
rebels seemed to have anticipated active
operations in the Army of the Po
tomac, for we see them gradually con
centrating their forces at Bichmond.
Beauregard joined Lee and a part df
Longstbeet’s army returned from East
Tennessee. About the beginning of May,
the two armies began to move. Sherman,
having made himself familiar with the de
tails of his new department, marched upon
Atlanta on the fourth of May, while Grant,
on the second of the same month, began
Ms advance on Richmond, On the fifth of
May, Butler moved his co-operating co
lumn from Newport News to City Point.
The beginning of May, therefore, found all
of our armies, under Grant's strong will,
moving simultaneously through Georgia
and Virginia. From tMs time, one man
governed the Union armies, and, in
summing up of the events of this year, it
will be necessary to speak of our military
operations hereafter as the work of one
mind, and not, as has Mtherto been, the
operations of different and independent
generals. On May the Bixth, we find
Sherman’s whole army, under Thomas,
McPherson, and Schofield, in Georgia,
pressing Johnston, who had retired be
yond Binggold; Butler is advancing
from Petersburg against Beauregard,
while Grant is hurling Ms entire,
i anny against Lee and* beginning the
I great battle of the Taking
the results of tMs campaign, it may
be said that the most terrific fighting of the
war occurred during these early days of
May, when Grant engaged Lee in the
neighborhood of Spottsylvania. The bat
tle began on the 6th of May in the Wilder
ness, and on the 12th Hancock made Ms
brilliant assault at Spottsylvania; Sheri
dan defeated Stuart at Yellow Tavern,
killing that brilliant and erratic soldier
and destroying the bridges over the Ohicka
hominy, and joined Butler, who was in
vesting Petersburg. On the sixteenth But
ler made an attack upon the enemy at
Drury’s Bluff and was repulsed, while
the effort of Beauregard to break our
line was unsuccessful. A second at
tempt was made by Ewell, which
failed; and on the twentieth General
Grant succeeded* in forcing Lee beyond
the North Anna river. The movements of
Grant during the month of May were for
the purpose of forcing Lee back upon
Bichmond; and on the twenty-ninth of
May Grant crossed the Pamunkey river
and occupied the old camps of the army of
General McClellan. On the tMrd of
June he made an assault upon the rebels
near Cold Harbor, and on the ninth June
General Butler began the siege of Peters
burg. An attempt was made by General
ELautz to carry the rebel works, which
failed; and on June the fourteenth the ad
vance of the Army of the Potomac crossed
the James river at Wilcox’s Landing. The
operations around Petersburg were very
active during these summer months, and
many assaults were made upon that
city, but without success. On the
twenty-tMrd, General Waeben cut the
Weldon Bailroad, but our force was not
strong enough to hold it. Efforts were
made by our cavalry to break up the rebel
communications; but they seem to have
been uniformly unsuccessful, and General
j Wilson returned from Ms raid to Bermuda
Hundred after losing nearly a thousand
men. Lee, having escaped annihilation,
took advantage of a breathing pause in the
early part of July to make a demonstration
upon the city of Washington; and so, upon
the sixth of that month, we see General
Earlv concentrating Ms forces at Harper’s
Ferry, and General McCausland occupy
ing Hagerstown. General Wallace, on
the ninth, made an attempt to drive
Early out of Maryland, and was de
feated at Monoeacy and compelled
to retreat towards Baltimore. A raid
ing party under Gilmor cuts the PM
ladelpMa, Wilmington, and Baltimore Rail
road, and on the twelfth General Breckin
ridge invested Washington City, but was
repulsed in an attack upon Fort Stevens,
and on the tMrteenth of July the invading
army retreated into Virginia by way of
Harper’s Ferry. Not disposed to abandon
the hope of ravaging the North, and find
ing the works of Washington too strong
for him, Early moved Ms army into the
northern part of the valley of the Shenan
doah, and on the thirtieth of July took pos
session Of Chambersburg, wMch was burned
by General McCausland, amid circum
stances of extraordinary perfidy and bar
barity. The operations of the Army of the
Potomac since the investment of Peters
burg have not been of a character to ma
terially affect the final results of the
war. In the summer General Grant
began to slowly invest that city. In
the latter part of August a detachment
takes possession of the Weldon Rail
road, destroying that line of commu
nication. A combined assault was made
upon the rebel workß on the 25th of
August, which failed, and Grant, having
taken up Ms position, and held Lee in Ms
trenches, sent Sheridan into the valley of
the Shenandoah for the purpose of de
stroying the rebel power in that important
part of the enemy’s dominions.
It certainly must have been with some
trepidation that General Sheridan took
command of a department which was only
noted in our Mstory as the "scene, of mis
takes and failures; hut the Mstory of the
year reflects honor on that gallant com
mander, entirely justifying the confidence
of Grant by Ms energy and genius. On
the 18th of September, Sheridan attacked
Early, Gapturing five thousand prisoners
and fifteen battle-flags, and killing Gene
rals Rhodes and Gordon. The rebels,
presuming upon the successful impunity
with which they had invaded Maryland,
massed their army under Early for the
purpose of a prolonged invasion of Penn
sylvania. Sheridan’r. first victory ended
this- dream, and we see that* general on
the 204 h in hot pursuit of the ambitious
rebel. On the twenty-second of February
he again attacked Early at Fisher’s Hill,
and drove Mm with great confusion, cap
turing twenty-one guns. On the twenty
sixth he oeeupied Staunton, and, in
spired by Ms success, General Grant
made another movement upon Peters
burg,, which did not alUr the position
of affairs. In order to prevent it from
being a nest and a refuge for rebel armies, ;
General Sheridan took advantage of
bis victories to destroy all the grain, rail
roads, the means of subsistence and of
r communication onthe line of Ms march;
and on the seventh of October he arrived
at Woodstock, having completed tMs terri
ble but just military.measure. On the
ninth of October he again attacked the
rebels, capturing eleven guns; and onthe
nineteenth of October he acMeved Ms last
and greatest victory. Early, having been
remforced from Bichmond, made an attack
upon Sheridan, and succeeded in driving
the army a couple of miles. Later in the day,
however, the tide turned, and the rebels
were completely routed, losing fifty guns,
two thousand prisoners, and a great part of
their camp equipage. After thus finishing
Ms work, Sheridan returned to Winches.,
ter, in. the early part of November, with
the intention, we presume, of entering into
winter quarters. The results oif Sheri
dan’s campaign may be appreciated when
we remember the magnitude of the danger
which the Middle States have been incut.
ting ■with the valley of the «i
constant avenue, &bH were f 6,1
rebel army. Lee hart cm!!?
on two occasions and srh
opon our fertile territory?'?! 3 ’
Geast was busy with tw 5i
Kichmond there was a
Pennsylvania sad
tated by the rebel forrea
can attribute to Seneiai r
great result: while 5
Bicbmond he has saved oar V’ 15 »’
from devastation.
Let u» go back t<~- a,,.
month of March we fi =l ]
moving Ms army from Chat??
Johretoh, when he i s r * °' : h
ington, and his great
mar, takes Ms command, r Baai
went to Washington he had
driving Lokgsteekt out 0 f ? tCftv
see, and the weeks spent .aa
nizing the Army cf the I> olo ? i!l
ployedby Shebmak in str * c '
Army of the West.
thundering ?t the columns' l r , ?
celebrated Wilderness, Sg „*‘*t i
moving steadily upon Jon??' 1 *
licy of Johnston seems to u 1 T *s
slowly retreat before
purpose .of drawing him i?',? !< >t
Georgia and then
Events, we think, have 3 i t , )W b a ‘
would have been the true r *
But it did not meet
the rebel Government, and „
dissatisfaction began to sp !? r
partsofthe Confederacy. Oaty"-
of May Shebmak had taken ic?
the twenty-eighth he app,-??*
when Jobkhtok, being p t
too earnestly, or it may be
wishes of the rebel
battle to -Shebman, and wm oj?
great loss. After the battle of
Johnston continned his r t(reaf 1
June first, having taken a ISI
toona, he was compelled t, v
abandon .it, and to occupy a ' ? Rl
in the Kenesaw Mountains, BKl j J
wMch he held for several weeks ;•
he was flanked by McPhekox »
treated precipitately, crosrinsr tie
hoochie river on the third V
falling back to the city of Atknti
man was now complete master 0 f y,
Georgia, and in the middle of July
• the Chattahoechie and invested i.
JOhnston was disposed to coat?
policy of retreating, but the Tf
no longer submit to this, and scys
on the seventeenth of July, he
from command, and supersede] i.
Hoop. This indicated a deterainu
the part of the rebels to fight for >
and Shebman gave them a spccdvi
tunity. On the twenty second o?;
fierce battle was fought for the p?
of the city, wMch resulted in the >i f
the rebel forces, though the vie;.:
not decisive enough to comps! ;■
abandon their camps. Sherman, ho.
closely invested the city gradneV.r,:
Hood back upon tbe town, cn«:,:
Macon Bailroad by a flank movoioa
rected by Iyilpatkick, destroy®
West Point Kaijroad, thwarting '
lkb’s attempts to cut his comme.i
with Nashville, defeating Boon
thirty-first of August in another atte;
raise the siege, and finally, having sir
ed Atlanta, compelled its commander!;
denly abandon the town. Sherman i,
him tMrty miles and then returned k
conquered city to reorganize and p
his army. Having thus taken
wMch fora long time had been the.
Sebastopol of the Southwest, Sai
destroyed that place so far as its ail
usefulness was concerned, banished i
habitants, and began preparations far
second step of his great campaign,
early part of September was then oc
in the depopulation of Atlanta a;
attempt of Bood to sever Shebmak’;
munications with Nashville. So !■
was the loss of this place felt, that
himself went out to the headqmit
Hood’s army and directed in person
new campaign. BaajjßEeAHD was p!
in command of the military dep
ment The rebel army was set la nr
with the published intention of advar
into Tennessee, and so destroying
man’s communications that he toe
compelled to retreat, destroying his
in the fastnesses of Georgia, and <
invading Ohio. Shebman was not
to be daunted by any such threat. s_ .
find him very quietly, during the early
months, strengthening Ms army, rep?'
the railroad between Atlanta and Aiit
and making ready for a movement %
Georgia. During the early part of"
her, Hood marched round Atlaam a
tacked Dalton. Retreating from thi-jo
the rebels abandon the whole read L
Tilton to Atlanta, wMch they lai«
pied in the hope of destroying Shit
and axe closely pursued by that cm.
into Alabama, who makes this He
the purpose of deceiving the rebels;
Ms intentions. The month of Ocio'y
spent in manoeuvres, and Sherman *
to Kingston, where he issues the oris,
his grand march. Directing Taos;
remain at Nashville with one portioaoit
army, and Schofield to remain ia ft
nessee, covering East Tennessee, withD
other portion, he takes the 14th, tlra.sS
20th Corps, and op the twelfth of
her begins Ms march through Gcffljihfc
army progressing in two colusaa;; <&
commanded by General Ecwakp, sef s
other by General Slocum. On the* 9 ®
the town of Borne was burned, to *>'
fifteenth, he reached- Atlanta,
stroyed all the bridges, railways *
everything in the rear that could b;
vice. On the seventeenth, the
passed through Conyers, and cros=A ■
Yellow river.. On the twentieth,
ledgeville was taken, and
nor’s housed Capitol, and pedtvnt>
burned. On the twenty iidh tlie a '.i
left Milledgeville, moving
line of the Georgia Central.
towards Millen, and thoroughly cCein vj
it. While one portion of the army
feint upon Augusta, by way of
borough road, the right wi:i-
Howabd, took possesion of
moved toward the Savannah r ‘ TeT '' {
possession ofthe town of
and marcMng rapidly to a pout‘d
miles from Savannah, wMle, at t#
time, the other wing cut the cana *.L
necting the Ogeecheeand Savannah®
and sent a messenger to commu» sCi .
tidings of its safety to the Union g®
that awaited its approach in
Sound. On the 13th Port
captured by assault, and Shebmas
ed directly upon Savannah, $
mantling the surrender of that
the 20th preparations were made to
tack, but during the night HabhSE
ated the town, and Savannah
In the meantime, General
that Shebman had ceased the
turned off into Georgia, maTchedm * ,
nessee with the avowed purpose o
powering Thomas and invading .
On the eighteenth of November a» *
was made to take Knoxville, b!;t
pulsed. Thomas withdrew &0 ® 1
to Columlna, Tennessee, Hood
lowing him. His army occupi® l ’. jB j
Alabama, and Florence, YissiKW
.was under Beaubegabd’s P cr3 l^DB tini
mand. On the twenty-eighth, ft-
Shelbyvffle. On the twenty-main
TTm -was captured, and on the ‘
Thomas made a stand at Frankli®- , }
attacked him and compelled out f
retreat to Nashville. On the ft®.
December, Hood having closely«
Nashville, Thomas attacked hi® *®
injuring Mm so severely that
during the night. The next day *
tacked Ms second position, and e
ronted the whole rebel force, P ux .
for as Duck river, and
from there was a fair P robabl ‘i
whole command might be captu ...
There are other movements m
tary campaign of a m^ or c c „ cc css»rr®
we have sketched as fully a - tlie
great military combinations
. General Price made
Missouri, in September 9X JIU