1862, AUGUST 23. A general battle with General Pope's forces took place. 1862, AUGUST 28. - General Forey, with a French army, arrived in Mexico. He assumed the civil and military power on the 8th of September. 1862, AUGUST 29.-The battle of Groveton, Virginia, was fought. The Confederates had the advantage. 1862, AUGUST 30.-A battle at Manassas, Virginia, was fought. The Federals were defeated. 1862, AUGUST 30.-A battle was fought at Richmond, Kentucky. The Federals were worsted. 1862, SEPTEMBER 1.- A battle at Ox Hill, Virginia, was fought. The Federals were defeated. General Pope was removed, and McClellan put in command. 1862, SEPTEMBER 1.-A battle was fought at Chantilly, Virginia. Generals Kearney and Stevens were killed. 1862, SEPTEMBER 1.- Lexington, Kentucky, was evacuated by the Federals. Cincinnati was greatly excited by the expectation of an attack. Martial law was proclaimed, and the citizens ordered to enroll themselves for defence. 1862, SEPTEMBER 14. The battle of South Mountain, Maryland, was fought. The Confederates had crossed into Maryland on the 4th, 5th, and 6th. On the 7th they occupied Frederick; and General Lee issued a proclamation to the people of Maryland, inviting them to join the confederacy. He said, "It is for you to decide your destiny freely and without restraint. This army will respect your choice, whatever it may be; and, while the southern people will rejoice to welcome you to your natural position among them, they will only welcome you when you come of your own free will." To this proclamation there was no response. 1862, SEPTEMBER 15.- Harper's Ferry was captured by the Confederates. The force holding it consisted of eleven thousand men. General Jackson was in command of the Confederates. Colonel Miles, in command, was mortally wounded. The Confederates held it only a day. 1862, SEPTEMBER 17.-The battle of Antietam, Maryland, was fought. It was one of the severest of the war. The Confederates were driven back over the Potomac. They had been in Maryland a fortnight. 1862, SEPTEMBER 17.-The garrison at Munfordsville, Kentucky, surrendered to the Confederates. A provisional government was organized by the Confederate forces, at Frankfort, for Kentucky. 1862, SEPTEMBER 17.- Cumberland Gap was vacated by the Federals. - 1862, SEPTEMBER 19. The Confederate forces were defeated at Iuka, Mississippi. 1862, SEPTEMBER 22.-President Lincoln issued a proclamation abolishing slavery in the Southern States, unless they returned to the Union before the 1st of January, 1863. The President, after stating that the war would still be conducted for restoring the Union, and that he should again urge Congress to pecuniarily indemnify the loyal slave states, should they abolish slavery either gradually or immediately, and that efforts would still continue for the voluntary colonization of "persons of African descent," proclaims, "That, on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state, or any designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever, free; and the executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom." The proclamation ends thus: "And the executive will in due time recommend that all citizens of the United States who shall have remained loyal thereto throughout the rebellion, shall (upon the restoration of the constitutional relation between the United States and their respective states and people, if the relation shall have been suspended or disturbed) be compensated for all losses by acts of the United States, including the loss of slaves." 1862, SEPTEMBER 24.-President Lincoln by a proclamation suspended the habeas corpus " in respect to persons held by military authority." It was done to prevent the release of military and state prisoners. 1862, SEPTEMBER 25. A convention of governors_from_the loyal states was held at Altoona, Pennsylvania, and adopted an address to the President, pledging him their support. They suggested an army of reserve, and indorsed the emancipation proclamation. 1862, OCTOBER 3.The battle of Corinth, Mississippi, was fought. The Confederates, under Van Dorn, were defeated by the Federals under Rosecrans. 1862, OCTOBER 8.—The battle of Perryville, Kentucky, was fought. The Federals, under General Buell, defeated the Confederates under General Bragg. 1862, OCTOBER 10.A raid on Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, was made by a Confederate force under General Stuart. 1862, OCTOBER 18.- Morgan made a raid in Kentucky. He occupied Lexington, Kentucky. The command of the army of Kentucky 1862, OCTOBER 24. was given to General Rosecrans. General Buell was relieved of it. 1862, OCTOBER 27. The Mexican congress assembled and protested against the Spanish invasion. 1862, NOVEMBER 7.-General Burnside was appointed to the command of the army of the Potomac. He relieved General McClellan. 1862, NOVEMBER 9. — General Butler issued his sequestration order. 1862. THE French government proposed to Russia and England to mediate in the United States. The proposition was made by Dròuyn d' L'Huys. Russia declined it November 8, and Great Britain on the 13th. 1862, NOVEMBER 22. A general order for the release of all state prisoners was issued. 1862, DECEMBER 7.- The Confederates were defeated at Prairie Grove, Arkansas. 1862, DECEMBER 11.- Fredericksburg, Virginia, was bombarded by the Federal army. They were under command of General Burnside, and had crossed the Rappahannock. On the 13th, their attack on the Confederate works was repulsed, and on the 15th and 16th they recrossed the Rappahannock, having lost heavily. 1862, DECEMBER 16. General Banks assumed command of the Department of the Gulf. 1862, DECEMBER 18. Lexington, Kentucky, was taken by the Confederates. 1862, DECEMBER 20.-Holly Springs, Mississippi, was captured by the Confederates. 1862, DECEMBER 27. The Federals, under General Sherman, were repulsed at Chickasaw Bayou, Mississippi. They had set out from Memphis December 20. After the repulse, the army withdrew from the Yazoo. 1862, DECEMBER 28. Van Buren, Arkansas, was captured by the Federals. General Blunt was in command. A large quantity of supplies, and four steamers laden, were captured. |