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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
4, 1862 Congress authorizes the enrolment of the militia between eighteen and forty-five; the appointment of a judge-advocate-general; the President to organize army corps at his discretion; persons of African descent to be admitted to the army; act approved......July 17, 1862 Congress authorizes the seizure and confiscation of rebel property......July 17, 1862 Second session adjourns......July 17, 1862 Ex-President Martin Van Buren dies at Lindenwold, N. Y., aged eighty......July 24, 1862 President Lincoln calls for 300,000 ninemonths' militia......Aug. 4, 1862 [A special draft ordered in States whose quotas are not filled by Aug. 15.] Battle of Cedar Mountain, Va.......Aug. 9, 1862 Property in Louisiana belonging to John Slidell, Confederate commissioner to France, confiscated by order of General Butler......Aug. 11, 1862 Army of the Potomac evacuates Harrison's Landing......Aug. 16, 1862 Sioux Indians attack the frontier settlements of Minnesota......A
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Van Buren, Martin 1782-1862 (search)
wer to make a slave than to make a king, and that it was the duty of the national government to relieve itself of all responsibility for the existence or continuance of slavery wherever the government possessed constitutional authority to legislate on that subject. General Taylor, candidate of the Whigs, was elected. Mr. Van Buren made a tour in Europe (1853-55). On the outbreak of the Civil War he took de cided ground in favor of the national government. He died in Kinderhook, N. Y., July 24, 1862. The Treasury and the panic. The following is the text of President Van Buren's message to the Congress on the grave financial situation of the country: Washington, Sept. 4, 1837. Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives,—The act of June 23, 1836, regulating the deposits of the public money and directing the employment of State, District, and Territorial banks for that purpose, made it the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to discontinue the use of suc