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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
ediately without trial, and all his commissioned officers or others serving with armed slaves, if captured, be reserved for execution......Dec. 23, 1862 Thirty-eight Indians hanged at Mankato, Minn., for participation in the massacres......Dec. 26, 1862 Gen. W. T. Sherman, aided by Admiral Porter, assaults Vicksburg on the north sacres......Dec. 26, 1862 [Known as the battle of Chickasaw Bayou. ] Monitor founders off Cape Hatteras in a storm, with a loss of sixteen of her crew, nighDec. 26, 1862 [Known as the battle of Chickasaw Bayou. ] Monitor founders off Cape Hatteras in a storm, with a loss of sixteen of her crew, night of......Dec. 30, 1862 Act admitting West Virginia, to date from June 20, 1863 (the thirty-fifth State), approved......Dec. 31, 1862 Battle of Murfreesboro, or Stone River......Dec. 31, 1862–Jan. 2, 1863 President Lincoln proclaims all slaves free in the seceding States......Jan. 1, 1863 Absent from duty in the army, 8,987 officers and 280,073 enlisted men......Jan. 1, 1863 Galveston, Tex., captured by the Confederates......Jan. 1, 1863 Gold at New York 133 1/4 to 133 7/8....
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Minnesota, (search)
te troops under Col. H. H. Sibley march against them, Aug. 26; United States troops under Major-General Pope are despatched to the seat of war, and after a sharp battle at Wood Lake the Indians are defeated, and 500 are taken prisoners, 300 of whom are sentenced to be hung......Sept. 22, 1862 Ninety-one captive white women and children surrendered by the Indians to Colonel Sibley near the Chippewa River......Sept. 26, 1862 Thirty-eight of the 300 Indians sentenced are executed......Dec. 26, 1862 Little Crow killed by a settler in the neighborhood of Hutchinson, McLeod county......July 3, 1863 Minnesota school for the deaf opened at Faribault......1863 Professor Eames, State geologist, reports rich silver-bearing quartz near Vermilion Lake, in the northeast part of the State......1865 State insane hospital at St. Peter opened......Dec. 6, 1866 State reform school at St. Paul opened......1866 City of Minneapolis incorporated......1867 Amendment to article VII.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Woman order, (search)
red that hereafter, when any female shall, by word, gesture, or movement, insult or show contempt for any officer or soldier of the United States, she shall be regarded and held liable to be treated as a woman of the town plying her avocation. The conduct was not afterwards repeated. The order was misrepresented in every form, but sensible women acknowledged its justice. General Butler received from the Confederates the name of Butler the beast. President Davis issued a proclamation (Dec. 26, 1862), in which he pronounced Butler to be a felon, deserving of capital punishment, and ordered that he should not be treated simply as a public enemy of the Confederate States of America, but as an outlaw and common enemy of mankind; and that, in the event of his capture, the officer in command of the capturing force do cause him to be immediately executed by hanging. The same treatment was ordered for all commissioned officers serving under him. A Georgian offered $10,000 reward for the