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Dixie Book of Days

<h2>December</h2> ICICLES AT THE SOUTH The rain on the trees has ceased to freeze; (’Twas molded with quaint device) The bent boughs lean, like cimeters keen, In scabbards of shining ice. ’Neath frozen cloaks the pines and oaks Are stooping like Druids old,— And the cedars stand—an arctic band— Held in the clutch of cold. Through the outer gloom the japonicas bloom, With the lustre of rubies bright— Like blossoms blown from a tropic zone,— A marvellous land of light! William Hamilton Hayne    [Pg 268] <big>December First</big> THE FIRST SNOW-FALL The Fir-tree felt it with a thrill And murmur of content; The last dead Leaf its cable slipt And from its moorings went; The selfsame silent messenger, To one that shibboleth Of Life imparting, and to one, The countersign of Death. John B. Tabb     <big>December Second</big> The avengers whose lives he had attempted, whose wives and children he had devoted to the hideous brutality of insurgent Africans, spared him all indignities, even moral torture. Percy Greg (England)   John Brown hanged, 1859    [Pg 269] <big>December Third</big> The Black and Tan Convention met December 3, 1867, in our venerable and historic capital to frame a new constitution for the Old Dominion. In this body were members from New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maine, Vermont, Connecticut, Maryland, District of Columbia, Ireland, Scotland, Nova Scotia, Canada, England; scalawags, or turn-coats, by Southerners most hated of all; twenty-four negroes; and in the total of 105, thirty-five white Virginians, from counties of excess white population, who might be considered representative of the State’s culture and intelligence. Myrta Lockett Avary   James Rumsey (1787) makes successful trial trip of the steamboat designed after the model of 1784, then witnessed by George Washington and others    [Pg 270] <big>December Fourth</big> A BIT OF RECONSTRUCTION ORATORY “Mistah President, de real flatform, suh. I’ll sw’ar tuh high Heaven. Yas, I’ll sw’ar higher dan dat. I’ll go down an’ de uth shall crumble intuh dus’ befor’ dee shall amalgamise my rights. ’Bout dis question uh cyarpet-bags. Ef you cyarpet-baggers does go back on us, woes be unto you! You better take yo cyarpet-bags and quit, and de quicker you git up and git de better. I do not abdicate de supperstition tuh dese strange friens, lately so-called citizens uh Ferginny. Ef dee don’ gimme my rights, I’ll suffer dis country tuh be lak Sarah. I’ll suffer desterlation fus!”... “I’se here tuh qualify my constituents. I’ll sing tuh Rome an’ tuh Englan’ an’ tuh de uttermos’ parts uh de uth.” (“You must address yourself to the chair,” said that functionary, ready to faint.) “All right, suh, I’ll not ’sire tuh maintain de House any longer.” Hon. Lewis Lindsay (From Stenographic Report)    [Pg 271] <big>December Fifth</big> Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his reason, in attempting to account for the great phenomena of nature, had he not a Supreme Being to refer to; and well has it been said that if there had been no God mankind would have been obliged to imagine one. George Washington     <big>December Sixth</big> CLEMENCY OF JEFFERSON DAVIS Honorable Jefferson Davis: My father, Harrison Self, is sentenced to hang at four o’clock this evening on a charge of bridge-burning. As he remains my earthly all, and all my hopes of happiness centre on him, I implore you to pardon him. Elizabeth Self (Telegram which secured pardon for her father)   Jefferson Davis dies, 1889 The county of Kentucky formed from Virginia, 1776 Duncan Nathaniel Ingraham, “Hero of the Koszta Rescue,” born, 1802    [Pg 272] <big>December Seventh</big> For years after the war, the Republican politicians in the South told the negroes that if the Democrats were elected, they would be put back into slavery. Consequently, after the first election of Cleveland, many of them began to make their arrangements to readapt themselves to the old regime. One old Virginia “aunty” living in Howard County, Maryland, announced that she was ready to return to Richmond; but declared most positively: “Deed, my ole Missus has got to send me my railroad ticket fust.”     <big>December Eighth</big> Our one sweet singer breaks no more The silence sad and long, The land is hushed from shore to shore It brooks no feebler song. Carl McKinley   Henry Timrod born, 1829 Joel Chandler Harris born, 1848    [Pg 273] <big>December Ninth</big> JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS It would be difficult to estimate the good done by a man like Harris, who brings a sense of relaxation and a thrill of pleasure to countless readers round the world. Such a man becomes a public benefactor. To-day men are better citizens, life’s tasks are easier, the roads are lighter, and heaven is nearer to earth because of the cheerful, hopeful, mirthful stories of Uncle Remus. Henry Stiles Bradley   Lord Dunmore defeated by Colonel Woodford at Battle of Great Bridge, Virginia, 1775    [Pg 274] <big>December Tenth</big> Mt. Vernon, 31 Jan. 1786 Sir:—If you have no cause to change your opinion respecting your mechanical boat, and reasons unknown to me do not exist to delay the exhibition of it, I would advise you to give it to the public as soon as it can be prepared conveniently.... Should a mechanical genius hit upon your plan, or something similar to it, I need not add that it would place you in an awkward situation and perhaps disconcert all your prospects concerning this useful discovery.... George Washington (Letter to James Rumsey)   Mississippi admitted to the Union, 1817     <big>December Eleventh</big> Mr. Rumsey’s steamboat, with more than half her loading (which was upwards of three ton) and a number of people on board, made a progress of four miles in one hour against the current of Potomac River, by the force of steam, without any external application whatsoever. <div class="blockquot">(Virginian Gazette and Winchester Advertiser, Jan. 11, 1788) </div>   Second trip of Rumsey’s steamboat at Shepherdstown, Va., in boat designed after model of 1784    [Pg 275] <big>December Twelfth</big> I have taken the greatest pains to perfect another kind of boat, upon the principles I mentioned to you at Richmond, in November last, and have the pleasure to inform you that I have brought it to a great perfection ... and I have quite convinced myself that boats of passage may be made to go against the current of the Mississippi or Ohio rivers, or in the Gulf Stream (from the Leeward to the Windward-Islands) from sixty to one hundred miles per day. I know this will appear strange and improbable to many persons, yet I am very certain it may be performed, besides, it is simple (when understood) and is also strictly philosophical. James Rumsey (In letter to George Washington after construction of steamboat model seen in action by the latter in 1784)    [Pg 276] <big>December Thirteenth</big> On part of the field the Union dead lay three deep. So fearful was the slaughter that our men at certain points on the line cried out to the advancing Federal forces, “Go back; we don’t want to kill you all!” Still they pressed forward in the face of despair, and they fell in the unshrinking station where they fought. In six months Lee had effaced Pope, checked McClellan, and crushed Burnside—June 25 to December 13, 1862. Henry E. Shepherd   Burnside repulsed at Fredericksburg, 1862     <big>December Fourteenth</big> Washington stands alone and unapproachable, like a snow-peak rising above its fellows into the clear air of morning, with a dignity, constancy and purity which have made him the ideal type of civic virtue to succeeding generations. James Bryce (England)   George Washington dies, 1799    [Pg 277] <big>December Fifteenth</big> Of late I have opened a pawnbroker’s shop for my hard-pressed brethren in feathers, lending at a fearful rate of interest; for every borrowing Lazarus will have to pay me back in due time by monthly instalments of singing. I shall have mine own again with usury. But were a man never so usurious, would he not lend a winter seed for a summer song? Would he refuse to invest his stale crumbs in an orchestra of divine instruments and a choir of heavenly voices? James Lane Allen     <big>December Sixteenth</big> I fill this cup to one made up Of loveliness alone, A woman, of her gentle sex The seeming paragon; To whom the better elements And kindly stars have given A form so fair, that, like the air, ’Tis less of earth than heaven. Edward C. Pinkney (“A Health”)    [Pg 278] <big>December Seventeenth</big> Her every tone is music’s own, Like those of morning birds, And something more than melody Dwells ever in her words; The coinage of her heart are they, And from her lips each flows As one may see the burdened bee Forth issue from the rose. Edward C. Pinkney (“A Health”)     <big>December Eighteenth</big> ... Nay, more! in death’s despite The crippled skeleton “learned to write.” “Dear mother,” at first, of course; and then “Dear Captain,” inquiring about the men. Captain’s answer: “Of eighty-and-five, Giffen and I are left alive.” Francis O. Ticknor (“Little Giffen”)   Francis O. Ticknor dies, 1874    [Pg 279] <big>December Nineteenth</big> Word of gloom from the war, one day; Johnston pressed at the front, they say. Little Giffen was up and away; A tear—his first—as he bade good-bye, Dimmed the glint of his steel-blue eye. “I’ll write, if spared!” There was news of the fight; But none of Giffen.—He did not write. Francis O. Ticknor   Crittenden’s compromise opposed by dominant party in Congress, 1860   Some of the manufacturing states think that a fight would be awful. Without a little bloodletting this Union will not, in my estimation, be worth a rush. Z. Chandler (Senator from Michigan)    [Pg 280] <big>December Twentieth</big> The Convention of 1787 was composed of members, a majority of whom were elected to reject the Federal Constitution; and it was only after the clause declaring that “the power granted under the Constitution being derived from the people of the United States, may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury and oppression, and that every power not granted thereby remains with them at their will,” was inserted in the ordinance of ratification, that six or more of the majority opposed to the measure consented to vote for it. Even with this accession of strength the Constitution was carried only by a vote of 89 to 79. (From Editorial Article in Charleston “Courier,” 1861)   South Carolina secedes, 1860    [Pg 281] <big>December Twenty-First</big> RESOLVED.... As the powers of legislation, granted in the Constitution of the United States to Congress, do not embrace a case of the admission of a foreign State or Territory, by legislation, into the Union, such an act of admission would have no binding force whatever on the people of Massachusetts. (Resolutions of Massachusetts Legislature, 1845. Nullification?)   President Tyler urges annexation of Texas, 1844     <big>December Twenty-Second</big> Bowing her head to the dust of the earth, Smitten and stricken is she; Light after light gone out from her hearth, Son after son from her knee. Bowing her head to the dust at her feet, Weeping her beautiful slain; Silence! keep silence for aye in the street— See! they are coming again! Alethea S. Burroughs   Sherman enters Savannah, 1864 Reconstruction Act put in effect in Georgia, 1869    [Pg 282] <big>December Twenty-Third</big> The glory of your virtues will not terminate with your military command; it will continue to animate remote ages. (President of Congress, to General Washington)   Washington resigns his commission as Commander-in-Chief, Annapolis, 1783     <big>December Twenty-Fourth</big> CHRISTMAS EVE The moon is in a tranquil mood; The silent skies are bland: Only the spirits of the good Go musing up the land: The sea is wrapped in mist and rest; It is the night that God hath blest. Danske Dandridge    [Pg 283] <big>December Twenty-Fifth</big> To the cradle-bough of a naked tree, Benumbed with ice and snow, A Christmas dream brought suddenly A birth of mistletoe. The shepherd stars from their fleecy cloud Strode out on the night to see; The Herod north-wind blustered loud To rend it from the tree. But the old year took it for a sign, And blessed it in his heart: “With prophecy of peace divine, Let now my soul depart.” John B. Tabb (Mistletoe)     <big>December Twenty-Sixth</big> Now praise to God that ere his grace Was scorned and he reviled He looked into his mother’s face, A little helpless child. And praise to God that ere men strove Above his tomb in war One loved him with a mother’s love, Nor knew a creed therefor. John Charles McNeill (A Christmas Hymn)    [Pg 284] <big>December Twenty-Seventh</big> Hear the sledges with the bells— Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars, that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells— From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells. Edgar Allan Poe    [Pg 285] <big>December Twenty-Eighth</big> In the future some historian shall come forth both strong and wise, With a love of the Republic, and the truth, before his eyes. He will show the subtle causes of the war between the States, He will go back in his studies far beyond our modern dates, He will trace our hostile ideas as the miner does the lodes, He will show the different habits born of different social codes, He will show the Union riven, and the picture will deplore, He will show it re-united and made stronger than before. James Barron Hope    [Pg 286] <big>December Twenty-Ninth</big> Slow and patient, fair and truthful must the coming teacher be To show how the knife was sharpened that was ground to prune the tree. He will hold the Scales of Justice, he will measure praise and blame, And the South will stand the verdict, and will stand it without shame. James Barron Hope   Texas admitted to the Union, 1845    [Pg 287] <big>December Thirtieth</big> I changed my name when I got free To “Mister” like the res’, But now dat I am going Home, I likes de ol’ name bes’. Sweet voices callin’ “Uncle Rome” Seem ringin’ in my ears; An’ swearin’ sorter sociable,— Ol’ Master’s voice I hears. ······ He’s passed Heaven’s River now, an’ soon He’ll call across its foam: “You, Rome, you damn ol’ nigger, Loose your boat an’ come on Home!” Howard Weeden    [Pg 288] <big>December Thirty-First</big> ’Tis midnight’s holy hour—and silence now Is brooding, like a gentle spirit, o’er The still and pulseless world. Hark! on the winds, The bells’ deep notes are swelling. ’Tis the knell Of the departed year. No funeral train Is sweeping past; yet on the stream and wood, With melancholy light, the moonbeams rest Like a pale, spotless shroud; the air is stirred, As by a mourner’s sigh; and on yon cloud, That floats so still and placidly through heaven, The spirits of the seasons seem to stand— Young Spring, bright Summer, Autumn’s solemn form, And Winter, with his aged locks—and breathe In mournful cadences, that come abroad Like the far wind harp’s wild and touching wail, A melancholy dirge o’er the dead Year, Gone from the earth forever. George Denison Prentice   Battle of Murfreesboro, Tenn., 1862     <hr style="width: 50%;" /> [Pg 289] <big>Index</big> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="table"> <tr><td> </td><td> </td><td align="right">PAGE</td></tr> <tr><td>Alabama, the, fight with the Kearsarge. June 19</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">140</td></tr> <tr><td>Alamance Creek, Battle of. May 16</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">118</td></tr> <tr><td>Alamo, the. Mch. 6</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">65</td></tr> <tr><td>Antietam, Battle of. Sept. 17</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">212</td></tr> <tr><td>Arkansas, the, destroyed. Aug. 6</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">180</td></tr> <tr><td>Ashby, Gen. Turner. June 6</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">131</td></tr> <tr><td>Assembly, first legislative in America. July 30</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">172</td></tr> <tr><td>Atlanta, evacuation of. Sept. 1, 2</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">200</td></tr> <tr><td>Audubon, John James. May 4</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">109</td></tr> <tr><td> </td></tr> <tr><td>Bacon, Nathaniel, epitaph. Jan. 2</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">15</td></tr> <tr><td>Bagby, George W. Aug. 13</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">185</td></tr> <tr><td>Baltimore, in first bloodshed of the War. April 19</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">97</td></tr> <tr><td>Benjamin, Judah P. May 6</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">111</td></tr> <tr><td>Bonnie Blue Flag, the. Jan. 10, 12</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">21, 23</td></tr> <tr><td>Boston, A Southern view. Mch. 12</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">69</td></tr> <tr><td>Breckinridge, John C. May 17; Aug. 10</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">118, 183</td></tr> <tr><td>Brooke, John Mercer, constructor of the first ironclad. Mch. 9</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">67</td></tr> <tr><td>Brown, John, execution. Dec. 2</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">268</td></tr> <tr><td>Raid at Harper’s Ferry. Oct. 16, 17</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">230, 231</td></tr> <tr><td> </td></tr> <tr><td>Calhoun, John C. Mch. 18</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">74</td></tr> <tr><td>Nationalism of. Mch. 31</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">81</td></tr> <tr><td>Carroll, Charles of Carrollton. Nov. 14</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">255</td></tr> <tr><td>Charleston “Courier” on Secession. Dec. 20</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">280</td></tr> <tr><td>Chickamauga, Battle of. Sept. 20</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">215</td></tr> <tr><td>Clark, George Rogers. Feb. 23, 24</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">53, 54</td></tr> <tr><td>Clark and Lewis, Northwestern expedition. May 14</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">116</td></tr> <tr><td>Clay, Henry. June 29</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">148</td></tr> <tr><td>Coercion, opposed by border States. Apr. 16, 17, 18; May 20</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">94, 95, 96, 119</td></tr> <tr><td>Confederacy, fall of. Apr. 8, 9, 10, 11</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">87, 88, 89, 90</td></tr> <tr><td>Surrender of last army. May 26</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">122</td></tr> <tr><td>Cornwallis, surrender of. Oct. 19</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">233</td></tr> <tr><td>[Pg 290]Crittenden, compromise of. Dec. 19</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">279</td></tr> <tr><td>Crockett, Col. David. Aug. 17</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">188</td></tr> <tr><td>Custis, Hon. John, epitaph. July 11</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">158</td></tr> <tr><td> </td></tr> <tr><td>Davis, Jefferson. June 3; Dec. 6</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">129, 271</td></tr> <tr><td>Imprisonment. May 23, 24</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">121</td></tr> <tr><td>Democrats, negro view of. Dec. 7</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">272</td></tr> <tr><td>Dixie, new version. Jan. 31; April 25; May 21</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">36, 102, 120</td></tr> <tr><td> </td></tr> <tr><td>Easter, selections for. April 4, 5</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">86</td></tr> <tr><td>Emancipation. Jan. 11; Feb. 12; Aug. 1, 2, 3; Sept. 3</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">22, 45, 176, 177, 178, 201</td></tr> <tr><td>Lincoln on. Sept. 22</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">216</td></tr> <tr><td>Southern view of. Feb. 28; June 2; Oct. 16</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">58, 129, 230</td></tr> <tr><td> </td></tr> <tr><td>Forrest, N. B. July 13</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">159</td></tr> <tr><td>Address to soldiers. Oct. 27</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">239</td></tr> <tr><td>Tributes to. Oct. 21, 26, 29, 30, 31</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">235, 238, 240, 241</td></tr> <tr><td>Fort Sullivan, defence of. June 28</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">147</td></tr> <tr><td>Fort Sumter, attempts to reinforce. Jan. 9</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">20</td></tr> <tr><td>Capture of. April 14</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">92</td></tr> <tr><td>Firing upon. April 12</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">91</td></tr> <tr><td>Frederick, Md., occupied by Confederates. Sept. 9</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">206</td></tr> <tr><td>Fredericksburg, Battle of. Dec. 13</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">276</td></tr> <tr><td>Frietchie, Barbara, in reference to “Stonewall” Jackson. Sept. 6</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">204</td></tr> <tr><td> </td></tr> <tr><td>Gettysburg, Battle of. July 1, 2, 3, 4</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">150, 151, 152, 153</td></tr> <tr><td>Gordon, Gen. Geo. H., remarks on Jackson’s soldiers. Aug. 28</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">195</td></tr> <tr><td>Gordon, Gen. John B. Feb. 6</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">41</td></tr> <tr><td>Grady, Henry W. April 24</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">101</td></tr> <tr><td> </td></tr> <tr><td>Hampton, Gen. Wade. Mch. 28</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">79</td></tr> <tr><td>Harris, Joel Chandler. Dec. 9</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">273</td></tr> <tr><td>Hayne, Paul Hamilton. Jan. 1</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">14</td></tr> <tr><td>Henry, Patrick. May 29</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">125</td></tr> <tr><td>Hill, Gen. A. P. April 2</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">85</td></tr> <tr><td>Hill, Gen. D. H. July 12</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">159</td></tr> <tr><td>Houston, Samuel, inaugurated president of Texas. Oct. 22</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">236</td></tr> <tr><td> [Pg 291]</td></tr> <tr><td>Insurrection, the Southampton. Aug. 1, 2, 3</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">176, 177, 178</td></tr> <tr><td> </td></tr> <tr><td>Jackson, Gov. C. F., declaration of secession. Aug. 5</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">179</td></tr> <tr><td>Jackson, Andrew. Mch. 15</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">71</td></tr> <tr><td>Jackson, “Stonewall.” Jan. 21</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">30</td></tr> <tr><td>Bill Arp’s view of. Sept. 16</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">211</td></tr> <tr><td>Capture of Harper’s Ferry. Sept. 15</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">211</td></tr> <tr><td>Death. May 10</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">113</td></tr> <tr><td>Wounded. May 2</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">108</td></tr> <tr><td>Jamestown, first legislative assembly met. July 30</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">172</td></tr> <tr><td>Reference to. June 20</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">141</td></tr> <tr><td>Settled. May 13</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">115</td></tr> <tr><td>Jefferson, Thomas. April 13</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">92</td></tr> <tr><td>On Louisiana Purchase. April 30</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">105</td></tr> <tr><td>Johnston, General Albert Sidney. April 6</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">86</td></tr> <tr><td>Johnston, General Jos. E. Feb. 7</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">41</td></tr> <tr><td> </td></tr> <tr><td>Kansas, formed as territory. May 30</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">125</td></tr> <tr><td>Kennedy, John P. Oct. 25</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">238</td></tr> <tr><td>King’s Mountain, Battle of. Oct. 9</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">226</td></tr> <tr><td>Ku Klux Klan. Feb. 20, 21; July 31</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">50, 51, 173</td></tr> <tr><td> </td></tr> <tr><td>Lanier, Sidney. Feb. 3</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">39</td></tr> <tr><td>Tabb’s tribute to. Sept. 8</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">206</td></tr> <tr><td>Laurens, John. Aug. 27</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">194</td></tr> <tr><td>Lee, Anne Carter, monument to. Aug. 8</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">182</td></tr> <tr><td>Lee, Henrietta, letter to Gen. Hunter. July 19</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">164</td></tr> <tr><td>Lee, Henry. Jan. 29</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">34</td></tr> <tr><td>Lee, Robert E. Jan. 19</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">29</td></tr> <tr><td>Accepts presidency of Washington College. Aug. 24</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">192</td></tr> <tr><td>Elected president of Washington College. Aug. 4</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">178</td></tr> <tr><td>First Northern invasion. Sept. 13</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">209</td></tr> <tr><td>Hill’s tribute to. Oct. 12</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">228</td></tr> <tr><td>Issues Chambersburg order. June 27</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">147</td></tr> <tr><td>Marries. June 30</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">148</td></tr> <tr><td>Resigns commission in United States Army. April 20</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">98</td></tr> <tr><td>[Pg 292]Sent to the rear. May 12</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">114</td></tr> <tr><td>Surrender at Appomattox. April 9</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">88</td></tr> <tr><td>The unselfish leader. Oct. 14</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">229</td></tr> <tr><td>Lent, selections for. Mch. 19, 20</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">74, 75</td></tr> <tr><td>Lewis, Meriwether. Oct. 11</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">227</td></tr> <tr><td>Lincoln, Abraham, death of. April 15</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">93</td></tr> <tr><td>On abolition. Feb. 12</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">45</td></tr> <tr><td>On negro suffrage. Feb. 11; Aug. 12</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">44, 184</td></tr> <tr><td>Literature, first of the New World. Mch. 13</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">70</td></tr> <tr><td>Louisiana Territory, acquired from France. Apr. 30</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">105</td></tr> <tr><td> </td></tr> <tr><td>Manassas, first Battle of. July 21</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">166</td></tr> <tr><td>Marshall, Chief Justice. Sept. 24</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">217</td></tr> <tr><td>Meade, Gen. Geo. Gordon, Southern tribute to. July 1</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">150</td></tr> <tr><td> </td></tr> <tr><td>Negro, status of. Sept. 11</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">208</td></tr> <tr><td>New Orleans, Liberty Place Anniversary. Sept. 14</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">210</td></tr> <tr><td>North Point, Battle of. Sept. 12</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">208</td></tr> <tr><td>Nullification, Northern view of. Nov. 25; Dec. 21</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">263, 281</td></tr> <tr><td>Southern view of. Nov. 24</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">262</td></tr> <tr><td> </td></tr> <tr><td>O’Hara, Theodore. July 20</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">165</td></tr> <tr><td>Old South, life in the. Sept. 11, 21</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">208, 216</td></tr> <tr><td>Oliver, Thaddeus. Aug. 9</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">182</td></tr> <tr><td> </td></tr> <tr><td>Peggy Stewart, burning of the. Oct. 19</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">233</td></tr> <tr><td>Poe, Edgar Allan. Oct. 7, 8</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">224, 225</td></tr> <tr><td>First monument erected to. Nov. 17</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">258</td></tr> <tr><td>Pope, Gen. John, Address to the Army of Potomac. Aug. 26</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">193</td></tr> <tr><td>Polk, James Knox. Nov. 2</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">244</td></tr> <tr><td>Port Hudson, fall of. July 9</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">156</td></tr> <tr><td>Prisoners, mortality of. Nov. 11</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">252</td></tr> <tr><td>Of war, exchange of. Nov. 9, 10, 12, 13</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">250, 251, 253, 254</td></tr> <tr><td> </td></tr> <tr><td>Raleigh, Sir Walter. July 16</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">162</td></tr> <tr><td>Reconstruction. Jan. 4; Mch. 2; Aug. 21; Oct. 21; Nov. 19, 22; Dec. 3, 4</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">16, 62, 190, 235, 259, 261, 269, 270</td></tr> <tr><td>[Pg 293]Bill Arp’s view of. Oct. 18; Nov. 23, 29</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">232, 261, 265</td></tr> <tr><td>End of. July 15</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">161</td></tr> <tr><td>Foreshadowed. April 15</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">93</td></tr> <tr><td>Negro oratory on. Dec. 4</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">270</td></tr> <tr><td>A prophecy of 1869. June 26</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">146</td></tr> <tr><td>Religious Freedom in Maryland. Mch. 25, 27; Apr. 21</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">77, 78, 99</td></tr> <tr><td>Rumsey, James, letter to, from Geo. Washington. Sept. 7</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">205</td></tr> <tr><td>Rumsey, trial of the steamboat. Dec. 10, 11, 12</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">274, 275</td></tr> <tr><td>Ryan, Abram J. Aug. 15</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">186</td></tr> <tr><td> </td></tr> <tr><td>Sandys, George, first author of the New World. Mch. 13</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">70</td></tr> <tr><td>Secession. Jan. 9, 11; Apr. 17; Aug. 5</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">20, 22, 95, 179</td></tr> <tr><td>From the Northern standpoint. Jan. 13, 26, 27; Mch. 24; May 6, 11</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">23, 33, 77, 111</td></tr> <tr><td>From the Southern standpoint. Jan. 10, 28; Feb. 5, 8, 9, 10, 18; Mch. 30</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">21, 34, 40, 42, 43, 45, 48, 80</td></tr> <tr><td>South Carolina. Dec. 20</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">280</td></tr> <tr><td>Semmes, Admiral Raphael. Sept. 27, 28</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">219</td></tr> <tr><td>Seven Days’ Battle, beginning of. June 25</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">145</td></tr> <tr><td>Sharpsburg, Attack at. Sept. 18</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">213</td></tr> <tr><td>Shenandoah, surrenders last Confederate flag. Nov. 5, 6</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">246, 247</td></tr> <tr><td>Slavery. Jan. 4; Feb. 9, 28; Aug. 1, 2, 3; Sept. 3, 21</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">16, 42, 58, 176, 177, 178, 201, 216</td></tr> <tr><td>Bagby’s view of. Oct. 16</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">230</td></tr> <tr><td>Northern view of. Jan. 13, 26, 27; Mch. 24; May 6; Sept. 5</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">23, 33, 77, 111, 203</td></tr> <tr><td>From the Southern standpoint. Jan. 10, 28; Feb. 8, 9, 10, 18; Mch. 30</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">21, 34, 42, 43, 48, 80</td></tr> <tr><td>Star Spangled Banner Anniversary. Sept. 14</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">210</td></tr> <tr><td>Stephens, Alex. H. Mch. 4</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">64</td></tr> <tr><td>Stuart, Gen. J. E. B. May 11</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">114</td></tr> <tr><td>Address to soldiers. Oct. 10</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">227</td></tr> <tr><td>Suffrage, Negro. Nov. 1</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">244</td></tr> <tr><td>Negro restriction of. Aug. 12</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">184</td></tr> <tr><td> [Pg 294]</td></tr> <tr><td>Tabb, John Banister. Mch. 22</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">76</td></tr> <tr><td>Tariff, South Carolina’s protest. Nov. 24</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">262</td></tr> <tr><td>Taney, Chief Justice. Oct. 13</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">229</td></tr> <tr><td>Texas. Mch. 23</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">76</td></tr> <tr><td>Ticknor, Francis O. Dec. 18</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">278</td></tr> <tr><td>Tilghman, Col. Tench, ride of. Oct. 23</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">237</td></tr> <tr><td>Timrod, Henry. Oct. 6</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">224</td></tr> <tr><td>Tribute to. Dec. 8</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">272</td></tr> <tr><td>Trent, The, affair of. Nov. 8</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">249</td></tr> <tr><td>Tyler, John. Mch. 29</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">79</td></tr> <tr><td> </td></tr> <tr><td>Union, the, restored. July 15</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">161</td></tr> <tr><td> </td></tr> <tr><td>Veteran, United Confederate, Northern tribute to. June 10</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">134</td></tr> <tr><td>Virginia, conquering of Northwestern territory. Feb. 23, 24</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">53, 54</td></tr> <tr><td>Opposition to Boston Port Bill. May 15</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">117</td></tr> <tr><td>Cession of Northwestern territory. Oct. 20</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">234</td></tr> <tr><td>Secession from, of West Virginia. June 20</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">141</td></tr> <tr><td>Two views of. Mch. 11</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">68</td></tr> <tr><td>University of. Mch. 7</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">65</td></tr> <tr><td>Virginia, the, challenges Monitor. May 8</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">112</td></tr> <tr><td>First iron-clad. Mch. 8, 9</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">66, 67</td></tr> <tr><td> </td></tr> <tr><td>Washington, Geo. Feb. 22; Dec. 14</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">52, 276</td></tr> <tr><td>Resigns commission. Dec. 23</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">282</td></tr> <tr><td>War Times. Jan. 17, 18; April 26</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">27, 28, 103</td></tr> <tr><td>Northern view of. Feb. 17, 26</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">48, 56</td></tr> <tr><td>West Virginia, secession from Virginia sustained by Federal Government. June 20</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">141</td></tr> <tr><td>Wilde, Richard Henry. Sept. 10</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">207</td></tr> <tr><td>Wilderness, Battle of. May 5</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">110</td></tr> <tr><td>William and Mary College, Northern tribute to. Feb. 14</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">46</td></tr> <tr><td>Wirz, Henry, execution of. Nov. 10</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">251</td></tr> <tr><td>Women, the Southern. Mch. 3; June 5</td> <td> </td> <td align="right">63, 131</td></tr></table> <div style="break-after:column;"></div>

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