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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 5 5 Browse Search
Mrs. John A. Logan, Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife: An Autobiography 1 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Internal improvements. (search)
May, 1864, similar grants were made to the States of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa, and others soon followed to Arkansas, Missouri, Alabama, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, and Kansas. The North Pacific Railroad Company was created July 1, 1864, with grants similar to those of the Union Pacific, excepting double the extent of land, through the Territories. July 27, 1866, grants were made to the Atlantic and Pacific, and the Southern Pacific, on terms similar to those of the Union Pacific. March 3, 1869, land grants were made to the Denver Pacific Railway; and by act of March 3, 1871, similar grants were made to the Southern Pacific (branch line) and Texas and Pacific. Many of the grants made in the earlier years of the system were enlarged. The aggregate amount of land granted is more than 215,000,000 acres, but the amount made available is not more than 187,000,000 acres. By the aid of these grants over 15,000 miles of railroad have been built. Their benefits have extended to all
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
assembles in special session......March 4, 1865 Lincoln inaugurated President......March 4, 1865 twentieth administration—Republican, March 4, 1865, to March 3, 1869. Abraham Lincoln, Illinois, President. Andrew Johnson, Tennessee, Vice-President. Special session of Senate adjourns......March 11, 1865 Battle of Feb. 27, 1869 St. Paul and St. George islands, Alaska, declared a special reservation for protection of fur seal, and landing thereon forbidden, by act......March 3, 1869 Speaker Colfax resigns, T. M. Pomeroy unanimously elected speaker......March 3, 1869 Fortieth Congress adjourns......March 4, 1869 General Grant inauMarch 3, 1869 Fortieth Congress adjourns......March 4, 1869 General Grant inaugurated President......March 4, 1869 twenty-first administration—Republican, March 4, 1869, to March 3, 1873. Ulysses S. Grant, Illinois, President. Schuyler Colfax, Indiana, Vice-President. Forty-first Congress, first session, meets......March 4, 1869 General Gillem removed from 4th Military District (Mississippi),
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), West Virginia, state of (search)
(Nov. 2, 1863) from the State of Virginia to West Virginia is recognized by joint resolution of Congress......March 10, 1866 Amendments to State constitution ratified, excluding from citizenship all who had, subsequent to June, 1861, given voluntary aid to the Southern Confederacy......May 24, 1866 Legislature ratifies the Fourteenth Amendment......Jan. 16, 1867 West Virginia University at Morgantown opened......June 17, 1867 Legislature ratifies the Fifteenth Amendment......March 3, 1869 Charleston chosen as seat of government by legislature, Feb. 20, 1869, from......April 30, 1870 Amendment to article III., section 1 of the State constitution, rehabilitating citizens disfranchised, ratified by the people......April 27, 1871 Constitution framed by a convention which meets at Charleston, Jan. 16, 1872, and completes its labors, April 9, 1872; ratified by the people......Aug. 22, 1872 Legislature meets at Wheeling as temporary seat of government by act of Feb.