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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Debtors. (search)
18, 1900.624,850.00 Funded loan of 1891, matured Sept. 2, 1891.71,550.00 Old debt matured at various dates prior to Jan. 1, 1861, and other items of debt matured at various dates subsequent to Jan. 1, 1861.1,073,740.26 ———— Aggregate of debt on which interest has ceased since maturity.1,770,140.26 Bonds issued to Pacific railroads matured but not yet presented: Union Pacific, $12,000; Kansas Pacific, $1,000; total13,000.00 Debt bearing no interest. Dollars. United States notes.Feb. 25, 1862; July 11, 1862; Mar. 3, 1863.346,681,016.00 Old demand notes.July 17, 1861; Feb. 12, 1862.53,847.50 National-bank notes: Redemption account.July 14, 1890.28,703,554.50 Fractional currency.July 17, 1862; March 3, 1863; June 30, 1864, less $8,375,934, estimated as lost or destroyed, act of June 21, 1879.6,877,462.41 ———— Aggregate of debt bearing no interest.382,315,880.41 Certificates and notes issued on deposits of coin and legal-tender notes and purchases of silver bul
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Inflation legislation. (search)
Inflation legislation. In order to fully comprehend the financial situation of the United States which led up to the inflation legislation, it is necessary to go back to the State and national finances just after the Civil War opened. The demand-note issue of July 17, 1861, was the first attempt to use the government notes as currency. These were redeemable at sight in coin, and were used in the payment of salaries due employes in the departments. The act of Feb. 25, 1862, authorized the issue of $150,000,000 in legal-tender United States notes, $50,000,000 of which were to take up the issue of demand notes. July 11, 1862, an additional issue of $150,000,000 in legal-tender notes was authorized by Congress, $35,000,000 of this to be in sums of less than five dollars. July 17, 1862, an act authorized the issue of notes of the fractional part of one dollar, receivable in payment of all dues, except customs, less than five dollars, and exchangeable for United States notes in su
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Orleans. (search)
lellan did not think the plan feasible, for it would take 50,000 men, and he was unwilling to spare a man from his army of more than 200,000 men lying around Washington. President Lincoln approved of the project, and Mr. Stanton said to General Butler, The man who takes New Orleans shall be made a lieutenant-general. Butler called for troops. New England was alive with enthusiasm, and furnished them, in addition to her thousands in the Army of the Potomac. He sailed from Fort Monroe, Feb. 25. 1862, with his wife, his staff, and 1,400 New England troops. Storms and delays made the passage long, and it was thirty days before he landed on dreary Ship Island (his place of destination), off the coast of Mississippi, where there was an unfinished fort. The Confederates of that region had taken possession of that island and the fort in considerable force. During their occupation of it for about four months, they made it strong and available for defence. They constructed eleven bomb
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Treaties. (search)
nternational arbitrationThe Hague New Granada: Treaty of Peace, amity, navigation, commerceBogotaDec. 12, 1846 Convention of Consular powersWashingtonMay 4, 1850 Convention of ClaimsWashingtonSept. 10, 1857 Nicaragua: Treaty of Friendship, commerce, navigationManaguaJune 21, 1867 Convention of ExtraditionManaguaJune 25, 1870 Orange Free State: Convention of Friendship, commerce, extraditionBloemfonteinDec. 22, 1871 Ottoman Empire: Treaty of Commerce and navigationConstantinopleFeb. 25, 1862 Foreign Power and Object of Treaty.Where Concluded.Date Ottoman Empire-Continued: Convention of ExtraditionConstantinopleAug. 11, 1874 Ottoman Porte: Treaty of Friendship***May 7, 1830 Paraguay: Convention of Friendship, commerce, navigationAsuncionFeb. 4, 1859 Persia : Treaty of Friendship and commerceConstantinopleDec. 13, 1856 Peru: Convention of Peru to pay claims of $300,000LimaMar. 17, 1841 Treaty of Friendship, commerce, navigationLimaJuly 26, 1851 Convention of Rig
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
8, 1862 General Grant assigned to command of District of West Tennessee......Feb. 14, 1862 Surrender of Fort Donelson, Tenn., to federal forces under General Grant......Feb. 16, 1862 Nashville, Tenn., occupied by federal forces......Feb. 25, 1862 Congress authorizes $150,000,000 United States notes, the legal-tender bill......Feb. 25, 1862 Battle of Pea Ridge, Ark.......March 6-8, 1862 Naval engagement at Hampton Roads, Va., and destruction of the United States frigate CongreFeb. 25, 1862 Battle of Pea Ridge, Ark.......March 6-8, 1862 Naval engagement at Hampton Roads, Va., and destruction of the United States frigate Congress and sloop-of-war Cumberland by the Confederate iron-clad Virginia, formerly the United States frigate Merrimac ......March 8, 1862 Fight between the Merrimac and Monitor; the Merrimac retires......March 9, 1862 Advance of the Army of the Potomac to Manassas Junction, Va.......March 7-11, 1862 General McClellan relieved from command-in-chief, retaining the Army of the Potomac......March 11, 1862 Departments of Kansas, of Missouri, and part of Ohio merged into the department of the