2. Finance, Ways and Means.
3. Mines and Mining.
4. Education, School and University Lands.
5. Incorporations and Railroads.
6. Public Lands.
7. Agriculture and Manufactures.
8. Stock.
9. Fees and Salaries.
10. Irrigation.
11. Immigration.
12. Elections.
13. State Institutions and Public Buildings.
14. Counties and County Lines.
15. Roads and Bridges.
16. Military Affairs.
17. Indian Affairs.
18. Penitentiary.
19. Federal Relations.
20. Printing.
21. Engrossment.
22. Enrollment.
23. Rules.
RULES AND ORDERS OF THE HOUSE.
MEETINGS, QUORUM, ETC.
1. The hour for the daily meeting of the House shall be 10 o’clock in
the morning, unless some other be designated by the House at the time of
its adjournment.
2. A majority of the House shall constitute a quorum, but a smaller
number may adjourn from day to day and compel the attendance of absent
members, and may inflict such censure or pecuniary penalty as they may
deem just, on those who being called for that purpose shall render no
sufficient excuse for their absence.
3. No member shall be excused from attendance for more than one day
without the consent of two-thirds of all the members present.
4. Upon the appearance of a quorum, the journal of the preceding day
shall be read by the Clerk, and any mistake therein may be corrected by
the House.
SPEAKER.
5. The Speaker shall take the chair at the time to which the House
stands adjourned, and the House shall then be called to order, and the
roll of the members called.
6. The Speaker shall vote on all questions taken by yeas and nays, and
on all elections, or divisions called for by any member.
7. The Speaker shall preserve order and decorum; and shall decide
questions of order, subject to an appeal to the House.
8. The Speaker may leave the chair, and appoint a member to preside, but
not for a longer time than one day, except by leave of the House.
9. The Speaker shall cause the Clerk to make a list of all bills,
resolutions, reports of committees, and other proceedings of the House,
which are committed to a committee of the whole House, and which are not
made the order of the day for any particular day, and to number the
same, which list shall be called, “The General Orders of the Day;” and
they shall be taken up in the order in which they are numbered, unless
otherwise ordered by a majority of the House; and the Clerk shall also
keep a book, showing the situation and progress of all bills.
ORDER OF THE DAY.
10. On the meeting of the House the order of the day shall be as
follows:
1. Prayer by the Chaplain, if present.
2. Call of the roll.
3. Reading of the journal of the previous day.
4. Presentation of petitions.
5. Reports of standing committees.
6. Reports of select committees.
7. Message from the Governor.
8. Amendments proposed by the Senate to bills from the House of
Representatives.
9. Motions, resolutions and notices.
10. Introduction and first reading of bills.
11. Second reading of bills and resolutions from the Senate.
12. Second reading of House bills and resolutions.
13. Consideration of bills reported upon by committees.
14. Third reading of Senate bills and resolutions.
15. Third reading of the House bills and resolutions.
16. Unfinished business of the preceding day.
17. Special orders of the day.
18. General orders of the day.
Any other business not prohibited by the rules of the House.
DECORUM AND ORDER OF DEBATE.
11. Every member, previous to speaking, shall rise from his chair, and
respectfully address himself to the Speaker, and shall confine himself
to the question under debate, and avoid personality.
12. When two or more members address the Chair at the same time, the
Speaker shall recognize the one who first rose.
13. A member called to order shall immediately sit down, unless
permitted to explain, and the Chair shall decide the question of order,
without debate, subject to an appeal to the House.
14. When the Speaker is putting the question, no member shall walk out
of or across the House, nor when a member is speaking, shall any person
entertain any private discourse, or pass between him and the Chair; and
no smoking shall be allowed in the House.
15. No member shall speak more than twice, nor more than thirty minutes
at one time on the same question, without leave of the House, nor more
than once until every member who chooses to speak shall have spoken,
except chairmen of committees, upon matters reported by them.
16. No motion shall be debated, or put, unless the same be seconded; it
shall be stated by the Speaker before the debate, and any such motion
shall be reduced to writing, if the Speaker or any member desire it.
17. After a motion shall be stated by the Speaker, it shall be deemed to
be in possession of the House; all motions, resolutions, or amendments,
shall be entered on the journal, whether rejected or adopted.
18. If the question in debate contain several points, any member may
have the same divided.
19. Every member who shall be present before the vote is declared from
the Chair, and no other, shall vote for or against the same, unless the
House shall excuse him; _provided_, that if any member have a personal
or private interest in any measure or bill proposed or pending, he shall
declare the fact to the House, and shall not vote thereon.
20. Any two members may make a call of the House, and require absent
members to be sent for, but a call of the House cannot be made after the
voting has commenced; and the call of the House being ordered, and the
absentees noted, the doors shall be closed, and no member permitted to
leave the room until the report of the sergeant-at-arms be received and
acted upon, or further proceedings in the call be suspended by a vote of
two-thirds of the House.
21. When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received but to
adjourn, to lay on the table, for the previous question, to postpone
indefinitely, to postpone to a certain day, to commit or to amend, which
several motions shall have precedence in the order in which they stand
arranged.
22. A motion to adjourn shall always be in order, except when a member
is addressing the Chair, or a vote is being taken; _provided_, the
motion being once moved and decided in the negative shall be considered
settled until some other motion or business shall come before the House.
The motion to adjourn and to lay on the table, shall be decided without
debate.
23. When the House adjourns the members shall keep their seats until the
Speaker announces the adjournment.
24. The orders for a particular day shall hold for every succeeding day
until disposed of.
25. All questions, whether in committee or in the House, shall be put in
the order they are moved, except in case of privileged questions; and in
filling up blanks the largest sum and the longest time shall be first
put.
26. The ayes and noes shall be ordered when demanded by any member, and
all votes taken by ayes and noes shall be entered on the journal.
27. Petitions, memorials, and other papers addressed to the House shall
be presented by the Speaker or by a member in his place.
BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS.
28. Every bill shall be introduced by motion for leave or on a report of
a committee.
29. Every bill and resolution shall have prefixed thereto the name of
the person introducing it; and when ordered by a committee the name of
said committee shall be endorsed thereon.
30. Every bill shall be read at length, on three different days, in the
House; all substantial amendments made thereto shall be printed for the
use of the members, before the final vote is taken on the bill; and no
bill shall pass except by vote of a majority of all members elected to
the House, nor unless on its final passage the vote be taken by ayes and
nays, and the names of those voting be entered on the journal.--_Const._
31. No bill shall be committed or amended unless it has been read twice.
No joint resolution shall be declared passed unless voted for by a
majority of all members elected to the House.
32. No bill shall be considered or become a law unless referred to a
committee, returned therefrom, and printed for the use of the
members.--_Const._
33. No bill, except general appropriation bills, shall be passed
containing more than one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in
its title.--_Const._
34. All bills shall be printed immediately after the first reading
thereof, unless otherwise ordered by the House.
35. All bills after having been read a second time shall be placed on
the file for consideration of the committee of the whole, unless
specially ordered by the House.
36. The same bill shall not appropriate the public money or property to
more than one local or private purpose; and bills appropriating moneys
for the payment of officers of the Government shall be confined to that
purpose exclusively.
37. In all cases where a bill, order, resolution, or motion shall be
entered on the journal of the House, the name of the member moving the
same shall be entered on the journal.
38. A similar mode of proceeding shall be observed with bills which have
originated in the Senate, as with bills originating in the House.
39. All memorials, and joint resolutions, upon their introduction shall
be read by title, and laid upon the table until printed, unless by a
suspension of this rule the House decide otherwise.
40. Every order or resolution to which the concurrence of the Senate
shall be necessary, unless otherwise ordered by a majority of the House,
shall be read to the House and laid upon the table on a day preceding
action thereon.
COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE.
41. When the House has arrived at the general orders of the day, it
shall go into committee of the whole upon such orders, or a particular
order designated by a vote of the House; and no business shall be in
order until the whole are considered and passed, or the committee rise;
and unless a particular bill is ordered up, the committee of the whole
shall consider, act upon, or pass, the general orders according to the
order of their reference.
42. In forming a committee of the whole House the Speaker shall appoint
a chairman to preside.
43. Bills committed to a committee of the whole House shall be read and
considered by clauses, leaving the preamble to be last considered. All
amendments shall be entered on a separate piece of paper, and so
reported to the House by the chairman, standing in his place.
44. The rules of the House shall be observed in committee of the whole
House, as far as may be applicable, except that the ayes and nays shall
not be called, nor the previous question enforced.
45. A motion that the committee rise shall always be in order, and shall
always be decided without debate.
RECONSIDERATION.
46. No motion for reconsideration shall be in order, unless on the same
day or the day following that on which the decision proposed to be
considered took place, nor unless one of the majority shall move such
reconsideration. A motion for reconsideration being put and lost (except
in case of privileged motions), shall not be renewed on the same day,
nor shall any subject be a second time reconsidered on the same day
without unanimous consent.
47. When notice of the intention to move the reconsideration of any bill
or joint resolution shall be given by a member, the Clerk shall retain
the said bill or joint resolution, until after the time during which the
said motion can be made, unless the same shall have previously been
disposed of.
48. A member who votes on that side of a question which prevailed, and
which required two-thirds of the members present to carry the
affirmative, may be at liberty to move for a reconsideration, and a
motion for reconsideration shall be decided by a majority of votes.
PREVIOUS QUESTION.
49. The previous question shall be in this form: Shall the main question
be now put? It shall only be entertained when demanded by a majority of
the members present, and its effect shall be to put an end to all
debate, and bring the House to a direct vote upon amendments reported by
a committee, if any, upon pending amendments, and then upon the main
question. On a motion for the previous question, and prior to the
seconding of the same, a call of the House shall be in order; but after
a majority shall have seconded such motion, no call shall be in order
prior to a decision of the main question.
50. When the previous question is decided in the negative, it shall
leave the main question under debate.
51. All incidental questions of order arising after a motion is made for
the previous question, during the pending of such motion or after the
House shall have determined that the main question shall be now put,
shall be decided, whether on appeal or otherwise, without debate.
ADMISSIONS TO THE FLOOR.
52. No person shall be admitted within the bar of the House but the
Executive, ex-Governors, members of the Senate, the heads of Departments
of the State Government, Judges of the Supreme Court, ex-members of the
Legislature, representatives of the press, ladies, and such other
persons as the House may from time to time direct, provided, however,
that any member may invite a single visitor to a seat on the floor of
the House.
COMMITTEES.
53. The following standing committees, to consist of five members each,
shall be appointed at the commencement of the session, unless otherwise
ordered:
1. Finance, Ways and Means.
2. Judiciary.
3. Education.
4. Mines and Mining.
5. Agriculture.
6. Irrigation.
7. Stock.
8. Elections and Apportionment.
9. Manufactures.
10. Immigration.
11. Corporations.
12. Public Lands.
13. Fees and Salaries.
14. State Institutions.
15. Counties and County Lines.
16. Indian Affairs.
17. Military Affairs.
18. Roads and Bridges.
19. Public Buildings.
20. Federal Relations.
21. Claims.
22. Printing.
23. Appropriations and Expenditures.
And the following standing committees to consist of three members each:
A Committee of Engrossment.
A Committee of Enrollment.
54. The committee on engrossment shall examine all bills after they are
engrossed and before their third reading, and report the same to the
House as correctly engrossed. The committee on enrollment shall examine
all bills, and report them to the House as correctly enrolled. Said
committee may report at any time.
55. Select committees to whom reference shall be made shall in all
cases report a state of facts, and their opinion thereon to the House.
RULES.
56. The rules of parliamentary practice embraced in Cushing’s Manual
shall govern the House in all cases to which they are applicable, and in
which they are not inconsistent with the standing rules and orders of
the House, and joint rules of the Senate and House of Representatives.
57. No rule of the House shall be suspended, altered, or amended,
without the concurrence of two-thirds of the members elected to the
House.
JOINT RULES OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE.
1. When a message shall be sent from the Senate to the House of
Representatives, it shall be announced at the door of the House by the
Sergeant-at-Arms, and shall be respectfully communicated to the Chair by
the person by whom it was sent.
2. The same ceremony shall be observed when a message shall be sent from
the House of Representatives to the Senate.
3. Messages shall be transmitted from one House to the other while both
Houses are in session.
4. Neither House shall without the consent of the other adjourn for more
than three days; nor to any other place than that in which the two
Houses shall be sitting.
5. After a bill shall have passed both Houses, it shall be duly enrolled
by the Enrolling Clerk of the House of Representatives, or of the
Senate, as the bill may have originated in the one or the other House,
before it shall be presented to the Governor of the State for his
approval.
6. When the bills are enrolled they shall be examined by a joint
committee of two from the Senate and two from the House of
Representatives, appointed as a standing committee for that purpose, who
shall carefully compare the enrollment with the engrossed bills, as
passed in the two Houses, and correcting any error that may be
discovered in the enrolled bills, make their report forthwith to their
respective Houses.
7. After examination and report each bill shall be signed in their
respective Houses, first by the Speaker of the House of Representatives,
then by the President of the Senate.
SENATE RULES.
8. After a bill shall have been thus signed in each House, it shall be
presented by the said committee to the Governor for his approbation (it
being first endorsed on the back of the roll, certifying in which House
the same originated, which endorsement shall be signed by the Chief
Clerk of the House in which the same did originate), and shall be
entered on the journal of each House. The said committee shall report
the day of presentation to the Governor, which time shall be carefully
entered on the journal of each House.
9. No amendment to any bill by one House shall be concurred in by the
other, nor shall the report of any committee of conference be accepted
in either House, except by a vote of a majority of the members elected
thereto, taken by ayes and noes, and the names of those voting be
entered on the journal.
10. All orders, resolutions and votes, which are to be presented to the
Governor of the State for his approbation, shall also, in the same
manner be enrolled, examined and assigned, and shall be presented in the
same manner and by the same committee, as provided in the case of bills.
11. Each House shall transmit to the other when requested, all the
papers on which any bill or resolution shall be founded.
12. The presiding officer of the Senate shall preside at all conventions
of the Houses.
13. Any three members may move a call of the convention.
14. When a bill or resolution shall have passed one House and shall be
rejected by the other, notice thereof shall immediately be given to the
House in which the same may have originated.
15. Bills appropriating moneys for the payment of officers of the
Government shall be confined to that purpose exclusively, and no law
shall embrace more than one subject, which shall be expressed in its
title.
16. No joint rule of the Senate and House of Representatives shall be
suspended, altered or amended without the concurrence of two-thirds of
the members elected to each House.
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
OF THE PRINCIPAL POLITICAL AND OTHER EVENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY, FROM
THE DISCOVERY IN 1492 TO THE PRESENT TIME.
1492, August 3, Columbus sailed from Palos, Spain.
1492, October 12, Columbus discovered Guanahani.
1492, November 7, Columbus discovered Cuba.
1492, December 6, Hayti, or Hispaniola discovered.
1493, January 16, Columbus returned to Spain.
1493, September 25, Columbus sails from Cadiz on his second voyage.
1493, December 8, Columbus lays the foundation of Isabella in
Hispaniola, the first European town in the New World.
1494, May 5, Jamaica discovered.
1496, March 10, Columbus sails again for Spain.
1497, June 24, North America discovered by the Cabots.
1498, May 30, Columbus sails from Spain on his third voyage.
1498, July 31, Trinidad discovered.
1498, August 1, South America discovered by Columbus.
1499, June 16, South America discovered by Americus Vespucius.
1500, Amazon river discovered by Pinzon.
1500, April 23, Brazil discovered by Cabval.
1502, May 11, Columbus sails on his last voyage.
1502, August 14, Bay of Honduras discovered by Columbus.
1504, September 2, Columbus returns to Spain.
1506, May 20, Columbus dies in his 59th year.
1508, St. Lawrence river first navigated by Aubert.
1512, April 2, Florida discovered by Juan Ponce de Leon.
1512, Baracoa, the first town in Cuba, built by Diego Velasquez.
1513, September 25, Pacific Ocean discovered by Vasco Nunez De Balboa.
1516, Rio de la Plata discovered by Juan Diaz de Solis.
1517, Patent granted by Charles V. for an annual import of 4,000 negro
slaves to Hispaniola, Cuba, Jamaica and Puerto Rico.
1517, Yucatan discovered by Francis Hernandez Cordova.
1519, March 13, Cortes lands at Tabasco, in Mexico.
1519, April 22, Cortes arrives at San Juan de Ulloa.
1519, Vera Cruz settled by Cortes.
1519, November 8, Cortes enters Mexico.
1520, Montezuma dies.
1520, November 7, Straits of Magellan discovered by Ferdinand Magellan.
1521, August 13, Mexico taken by Cortes.
1522, Bermudas discovered by Juan Bermudez.
1525, First invasion of Peru by Pizarro and Almagro.
1528, Pizarro appointed governor of Peru.
1531, Second invasion of Peru by Pizarro.
1532, First colony founded in Peru by Pizarro.
1535, Chili invaded by Almagro.
1537, California discovered by Cortes.
1539, May 18, Ferdinand de Soto sails from Havana on an expedition for
the conquest of Florida.
1541, August 6, Orellana explores the Amazon, and arrives at the ocean.
1545, Mines of Potosi, in South America, discovered.
1548, Platina discovered in the south of Mexico.
1563, Slaves first imported into the West Indies by the English.
1576, Elizabeth’s and Frobisher’s Straits discovered by Martin
Frobisher.
1585, June 26, Virginia visited by Sir Walter Raleigh.
1586, Tobacco introduced into England by Mr. Lane.
1587, August 13, First Indian baptized in Virginia.
1602, May 15, Cape Cod named by Bartholomew Gosnold.
1602, May 21, Martha’s Vineyard discovered by Gosnold.
1607, May 13, Jamestown, Virginia, founded.
1608, July 3, Quebec founded.
1609, Hudson river discovered by Henry Hudson.
1611, Lake Champlain discovered by Champlain.
1616, Baffin’s Bay discovered by Baffin.
1617, Pocahontas dies in England.
1619, June 19, First General Assembly in Virginia.
1619, May 20, Long Island Sound first navigated by Dermer.
1620, August 5, Puritans sail from Southampton, England, for America.
1620, November 10, Puritans anchored at Cape Cod.
1620, November, first white child born in New England.
1620, December 11, first landing at Plymouth.
1620, December 25, first house built at Plymouth.
1620, Slaves first introduced into Virginia by the Dutch.
1621, May 12, first marriage at Plymouth.
1630, Boston settled.
1630, October 19, first general court of Massachusetts Colony holden at
Boston.
1631, Delaware settled by the Swedes.
1632, First church built at Boston.
1633, First house erected in Connecticut, at Windsor.
1634, Maryland settled.
1634, Roger Williams banished from Massachusetts.
1636, Hartford, Conn., settled.
1636, Providence founded by Roger Williams.
1637, First synod convened at Newton (now Cambridge), Mass.
1638, New Haven founded.
1638, Harvard College founded.
1638, June 1, earthquake in New England.
1639, January 14, convention at Hartford, Conn., for forming a
Constitution.
1639, April, first general election at Hartford.
1639, First printing press established at Cambridge, Mass., by Stephen
Day.
1642, October 9, first commencement at Harvard College.
1643, May 19, union of the New England Colonies.
1646, First act passed by the general court of Mass. for the spread of
the Gospel among the Indians.
1647, May 19, first General Assembly of Rhode Island.
1648, First execution for witchcraft.
1648, New London settled.
1650, Harvard College chartered.
1650, Constitution of Maryland settled.
1651, Navigation Act passed by Great Britain.
1652, First mint established in New England.
1654, Yale College first projected by Davenport.
1663, January 26, earthquake felt in New England, New Netherlands and
Canada.
1664, August 27, surrender of New Amsterdam to the English.
1665, June 12, New York City incorporated.
1672, First copyright granted by Mass.
1673, Mississippi river explored by Marquette and Joliet.
1675, June 24, commencement of King Philip’s war.
1676, August 12, death of King Philip.
1681, March 4, grant of Pennsylvania to William Penn.
1682, October 24, arrival of William Penn in America.
1682, Louisiana taken possession of by M. de la Sale.
1683, First Legislative Assembly in New York.
1683, Roger Williams dies, in his 84th year.
1686, First Episcopal Society formed in Boston.
1687, First printing press established near Philadelphia by William
Bradford.
1688, New York and New Jersey united to New England.
1690, February 8, Schenectady burned by the French and Indians.
1690, First paper money issued by Massachusetts.
1692, William and Mary College, Virginia, chartered.
1693, Episcopal Church established at New York.
1693, First printing press established in New York by William Bradford.
1695, Rice introduced into Carolina.
1698, First French Colony arrive at the mouth of the Mississippi.
1699, Captain Kidd, the pirate, apprehended at Boston.
1700, Episcopal Church established in Pennsylvania.
1701, October, Yale College chartered and founded at Saybrook.
1702, Episcopal Church established in New Jersey and Rhode Island.
1703, Culture of silk introduced into Carolina.
1703, Duty of £4 laid on imported negroes, in Mass.
1704, Tonnage duty laid by Rhode Island on foreign vessels.
1704, Act “to prevent the growth of Popery,” passed by Maryland.
1704, First newspaper (Boston News Letter) published at Boston, by
Bartholomew Green.
1706, Bills of Credit issued by Carolina.
1709, First printing press in Connecticut, established at New London, by
Thomas Short.
1711, South Sea Company incorporated.
1712, Free Schools founded in Charleston, Massachusetts.
1714, First schooner built at Cape Ann.
1717, Yale College removed from Saybrook to New Haven.
1718, Import duties laid by Massachusetts on English manufactures and
English ships.
1719, First Presbyterian Church founded in New York.
1720, Tea first used in New England.
1721, Inoculation for small-pox introduced into New England.
1722, Paper money first issued in Pennsylvania.
1725, First newspaper in New York (the New York Gazette) published by
William Bradford.
1726, First printing presses established in Virginia and Maryland.
1727, Earthquake in New England.
1730, First printing press and newspaper established at Charleston,
South Carolina.
1732, Tobacco made a legal tender in Maryland at 1_d._ per pound, and
corn at 20_d._ per bushel.
1732, February 22, George Washington born.
1732, First printing press and newspaper established at Newport, Rhode
Island.
1733, Georgia settled.
1733, Freemasons’ Lodge first held in Boston.
1727, Earthquake in New Jersey.
1738, College founded at Princeton, New Jersey.
1741, January 1, General Magazine and Historical Chronicle, first
published by Benjamin Franklin.
1742, Faneuil Hall erected at Boston.
1750, First theatrical performance in Boston.
1754, Columbia College founded in New York.
1755, July 9, defeat of General Braddock.
1755, September 8, battle of Lake George.
1755, Earthquake in North America.
1755, First newspaper (Connecticut Gazette), published at New Haven.
1756, May 17, war declared with France by Great Britain.
1756, First printing press and newspaper established at Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, by Daniel Fowle.
1758, July 26, Louisburg taken by the English.
1758, August 27, Fort Frontenac taken by the English.
1758, November 25, Fort Duquesne (now Pittsburgh), taken by the English.
1759, Ticonderoga taken by the English.
1759, September 18, Quebec taken by the English.
1761, March 12, earthquake in New England.
1763, February 10, treaty of peace, signed at Paris, between the English
and French.
1763, First newspaper published in Georgia.
1764, March, right to tax American colonies, voted by House of Commons.
1764, April 5, first act for levying revenue passed Parliament.
1764, April 21, Louisiana ordered to be given up to Spain.
1765, Stamp act passed by Parliament.
1765, March 22, stamp act receives a royal assent.
1765, May 29, Virginia resolutions against the right of taxation.
1765, June 6, general Congress proposed by Massachusetts.
1765, October 17, Congress of twenty-seven delegates convenes at New
York, and publishes a declaration of rights and resolutions against the
stamp act.
1766, February, Dr. Franklin examined before the House of Commons,
relative to the repeal of the stamp act.
1766, March 18, stamp act repealed.
1767, Tax laid on paper, glass, painters’ colors, and teas.
1769, Dartmouth College incorporated; American Philosophical Society
instituted at Philadelphia.
1770, March 5, Boston massacre.
1773, December 18, tea thrown overboard at Boston.
1774, March 31, Boston port bill passed; September 4, first Continental
Congress at Philadelphia.
1774, Dr. Franklin dismissed from the post office.
1775, April 19, battle of Lexington; May 10, Ticonderoga taken by the
Provincials.
1775, June 17, battle of Bunker Hill; July 2, General Washington arrives
at Cambridge.
1775, December 13, resolution of Congress to fit out a navy of thirteen
ships.
1775, December 31, assault on Quebec, and death of General Montgomery.
1776, March 17, Boston evacuated by the British; July 4, Declaration of
Independence.
1776, August 27, battle of Long Island; September 15, British take
possession of New York.
1776, October 28, battle of White Plains; November 16, capture of Fort
Washington; December 26, battle of Trenton.
1777, January 3, battle of Princeton; August 16, battle of Bennington.
1777, September 11, battle of Brandywine; September 19, first battle of
Stillwater.
1777, September 27, British army enters Philadelphia; October 4, battle
of Germantown.
1777, October 7, second battle of Stillwater; October 17, surrender of
the British army under Burgoyne.
1777, November 15, articles of confederation adopted by Congress, and
finally ratified by the States; in March 1781, Maryland being the last
State to adopt them.
1778, February 6, Treaty of alliance with France, ratified by Louis XVI.
1778, June 28, battle at Monmouth Court House; December 29, Savannah
taken by the British.
1779, March 3, battle of Briar Creek; May 14, Norfolk taken by the
British.
1779, June 20, battle of Stono Ferry.
1779, July 5-7, Fairfield and Norwalk, Conn., burned by the British.
1779. July 16, storming and capture of Stony Point by the Americans,
under Wayne.
1779, July and August, Sullivan’s expedition against the Indians on the
Susquehanna.
1779, September 23, Paul Jones captures two British frigates.
1780, April 14, battle at Monck’s Corner, South Carolina.
1780, May 6, battle on the Santee river.
1780, May 12, Surrender of Gen. Lincoln and American army at Charleston.
1780, July 12, French fleet and army arrive at Rhode Island.
1780, August 16, battle of Sanders Creek, near Camden.
1780, September 23, treason of Gen. Arnold, and arrest of Major Andre.
1780, October 2, Major Andre executed; battle of Kings Mountain.
1780, November 12, battle of Broad river; November 20, battle at
Blackstock.
1780, December 20, war between England and Holland.
1781, Bank of North America established.
1781, January, expedition of the British, under Arnold, to Virginia.
1781, January 17, battle of the Cowpens; February, retreat of Gen.
Greene in North Carolina.
1781, March 15, battle of Guilford Court House; April 25, battle of
Hobkirk’s Hill, near Camden.
1781, August 14, American and French allied army, march from the Hudson
river, near New York, to Virginia.
1781, September 6, burning of New London, by Arnold.
1781, September 8, battle of Eutaw Springs, and close of the campaign in
South Carolina.
1781, October 19, surrender of Lord Cornwallis and the British army.
1782, February 27, resolutions of the House of Commons in favor of
peace.
1782, March 20, resignation of Lord North, and accession of a Whig
cabinet in England.
1782, April 19, independence of the United States acknowledged by
Holland.
1782, June 24, last battle of the Revolutionary war, near Savannah,
Georgia.
1782, August, death of Colonel John Laurens, of South Carolina.
1782, November 13, preliminary articles of peace between the United
States and Great Britain, signed at Paris.
1783, January 20, preliminary treaties between France, Spain and Great
Britain, signed at Versailles.
1783, Independence of the United States acknowledged by Sweden February
5; by Denmark, February 25; by Spain, March 24; and by Russia in July.
1783, April 11, peace proclaimed by Congress; April 19, announced to the
army by Washington.
1783, September 3, definite treaty of peace signed at Paris.
1783, Proclamation for disbanding the army; November 2, Washington’s
farewell orders.
1783, November 25, New York evacuated by the British.
1784, First voyage from China to New York.
1785, July 9, and August 5, treaty with Prussia.
1786, Shay’s insurrection in Massachusetts; September 20, insurrection
in New Hampshire.
1787, September 17, federal constitution agreed on by convention.
1788, Federal constitution adopted by eleven States.
1789, March 4, George Washington elected President.
1789, April 30, inauguration of George Washington.
1790, District of Columbia ceded by Virginia and Maryland.
1790, May 29, constitution adopted by Rhode Island.
1791, March 4, Vermont admitted into the Union.
1791, Bank of the United States established.
1791, First folio Bible printed by Worcester of Massachusetts.
1792, June 1, Kentucky admitted into the Union.
1793, Washington re-elected President.
1793, Death of John Hancock.
1794, Insurrection in Pennsylvania.
1796, June 1, Tennessee admitted into the Union.
1796, December 7, Washington’s last speech to Congress.
1797, March 4, John Adams inaugurated President.
1798, Washington re-appointed commander-in-chief.
1799, December 14, death of George Washington.
1800, Seat of Government removed to Washington.
1800, May 13, disbanding of the provisional army.
1801, March 4, Thomas Jefferson inaugurated President.
1802, July 20, Louisiana ceded to France by Spain.
1803, February 19, Ohio admitted into the Union.
1803, April 30, Louisiana purchased by the United States.
1803, August, Commodore Preble bombards Tripoli.
1805, June 3, treaty of peace with Tripoli.
1806, Expedition of Louis and Clark to the mouth of the Columbia.
1807, June 22, attack on the frigate Chesapeake.
1807, July 2, interdict to armed British vessels.
1807, November 11, British orders in council.
1807, December, 17, Milan decree.
1807, December 22, embargo laid by the American government.
1808, January 1, slave trade abolished.
1808, April 17, Bayonne decree.
1809, March 1, embargo repealed.
1809, March 4, James Madison inaugurated President.
1810, March 23, Rambouillet decree.
1811, May 16, engagement between the frigate President and Little Belt.
1811, November 7, battle of Tippecanoe.
1812, April 3, embargo laid for ninety days.
1812, June 19, proclamation of war (war declared June 18).
1812, June 23, British orders in council repealed.
1812, August 15, surrender of Gen. Hull.
1812, Action between the frigates Constitution and Guerriere.
1812, November, defeat at Queenstown.
1812, Action between the Frolic and Wasp.
1812, Action between the United States and Macedonia.
1812, April 8, Louisana admitted into the Union.
1813, April 27, capture of York Upper Canada.
1813, May 27, battle of Fort George.
1813, June 1, Chesapeake captured by the Shannon.
1813, September 10, Perry’s victory on Lake Erie.
1813, October 5, battle of Thames.
1813, December 13, Buffalo burnt.
1814, March 28, action between the frigates Essex and Phœbe.
1814, July 5, battle of Chippawa.
1814, July 25, battle of Bridgewater.
1814, August, Washington City captured, and capitol burnt.
1814, August 9-11, Stonington bombarded.
1814, August 11, McDonough’s victory on Lake Champlain.
1814, September 12, battle near Baltimore.
1814, December 24, treaty of Ghent signed.
1814, December 25, battle of New Orleans.
1815, February 27, treaty of Ghent ratified by the President.
1815, March, war declared with Algiers.
1817, March 4, James Monroe, inaugurated President.
1817, December 10, Mississippi admitted into the Union.
1818, December 3, Illinois admitted into the Union.
1819, December 14, Alabama admitted into the Union.
1820, March 15, Maine admitted into the Union.
1821, July 1, Jackson takes possession of Florida.
1821, August 10, Missouri admitted into the Union.
1821, First settlement of Liberia.
1824, March 13, convention with Great Britain for suppression of the
slave trade.
1824, April 5, convention with Russia, in relation to the Northwest
boundary.
1824, August 13, arrival of Gen. Lafayette.
1825, March 4, John Quincy Adams inaugurated President.
1825, September 7, departure of Gen. Lafayette.
1826, July 4, death of Presidents Adams and Jefferson.
1829, February 20, resolutions passed by the Virginia House of
Delegates, denying the right of Congress to pass the tariff bill.
1829, March 4, Andrew Jackson inaugurated President.
1829, May 2, hail fell in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to the depth of twelve
inches.
1829, May 17, death of John Jay, Bedford, New York.
1829, September 15, slavery abolished in Mexico.
1829, November 9, separation of Yucatan from Mexico, and union with
Republic of Central America.
1829, December 4, revolution commenced in Mexico.
1830, January 20, General Bolivar resigns his military and civil
commissions.
1830, January 27, city of Guatemala nearly destroyed by earthquakes.
1830, April 4, Yucatan declares its independence.
1831, January 12, remarkable eclipse of the sun.
1831, July 4th, death of James Monroe.
1831, October 1, free trade convention at Philadelphia.
1831, October 26, tariff convention at New York.
1832, February 6, attack on Qualla Battoo, in Sumatra, by United States
frigate Potomac.
1832, June 8, cholera breaks out at Quebec, in Canada; being its first
appearance in America.
1832, August 27, capture of Black Hawk.
1832, September 26, University of New York organized.
1832, November, union and State rights convention of South Carolina.
1832, December 28, John C. Calhoun resigns the office of Vice-President.
1833, March 2, new tariff bill signed by the President.
1833, March 4, Andrew Jackson inaugurated President for a second term.
1833, March 11, State rights convention of South Carolina.
1833, March 29, Santa Anna elected President of Mexico.
1833, May 16, Santa Anna inaugurated President of Mexico.
1833, October 1, public deposits removed from the bank of the United
States, by order of General Jackson.
1833, November 13, remarkable meteoric showers in the United States.
1834, March 28, vote of censure by the Senate against Gen. Jackson for
removing the deposits.
1835, April 18, French indemnity bill passes the Chamber of Deputies.
1835, December 16, great fire in New York.
1836, April 21, battle of San Jacinto, in Texas.
1836, June 14, Arkansas admitted in the Union.
1836, December 15, burning of the general post office and patent office
at Washington.
1837, January 26, Michigan admitted into the Union.
1837, March 4, Martin Van Buren, inaugurated President of the United
States.
1840, January 19, Antarctic continent discovered by the United States
exploring expedition.
1840, June 30, sub-treasury bill becomes a law.
1841, March 4, William Henry Harrison inaugurated President of the
United States.
1841, April 4, death of President Harrison.
1841, August 9, sub-treasury bill repealed.
1841, August 18, bankrupt act becomes a law.
1843, March 3, bankrupt act repealed.
1843, June 17, Bunker Hill monument celebration.
1845, March 1, Texas annexed to the United States.
1845, March 3, Florida admitted into the Union.
1845, March 4, James K. Polk, inaugurated President.
1845, June 18, death of Andrew Jackson.
1845, December, 24, Texas admitted into the Union.
1846, May 8, battle of Palo Alto, on the Rio Grande.
1846, May 9, battle of Resaca de la Palma on the Rio Grande.
1846, May 13, proclamation of war existing with Mexico.
1846, June 18, United States Senate advise the President to confirm the
Oregon treaty with Great Britain.
1846, July 28, new United States tariff bill passed.
1846, August 3, President Polk vetoes the river and harbor bill.
1846, August 6, revolution in Mexico in favor of Santa Anna.
1846, August 8, President Polk vetoes the French spoliation bill.
1846, August 10, Congress adjourns.
1846, August 18, Brigadier General Kearney, of the United States army,
takes possession of Santa Fe.
1846, August 19, Commodore Stockton blockades the Mexican ports on the
Pacific.
1846, September 21, 22, 23, battles of Monterey, Mexico.
1846, September 26, California expedition with Col. Stevenson’s regiment
of 780 officers and men, sails from New York.
1846, October 25, Tabasco in Mexico, bombarded by Commodore Perry.
1846, November 14, Commodore Conner takes Tampico.
1846, December 6, General Kearney defeats the Mexicans at San Pasqual.
1846, December 25, Colonel Doniphan defeats the Mexicans at Brazito,
near El Paso.
1846, December 28, Iowa admitted into the Union.
1847, January 8, Mexican Congress resolves to raise fifteen millions of
dollars on the property of the clergy for the war with the United
States.
1847, January 8-9, battles of San Gabriel and Mesa, in California,
fought by General Kearney, who defeats the Mexicans.
1847, January 14, revolt of the Mexicans in New Mexico against the
United States authorities.
1847, January 24, battle of Canada, in New Mexico; Mexicans defeated by
the Americans under Colonel Price.
1847, February 22-23, battle of Buena Vista--Mexicans 21,000 in number,
under General Santa Anna, defeated by 4,500 Americans under General
Taylor.
1847, February 28, battle of Sacramento--Colonel Doniphan, with 924
Americans defeats 4,000 Mexicans.
1847, March 1, General Kearney declares California a part of the United
States.
1847, March 20, city and castle of Vera Cruz taken by the army and navy
of the United States, under General Scott and Commodore Perry.
1847, April 2, Alvarado taken by the Americans under Lieutenant Hunter.
1847, April 18, battle of Cerro Gordo. Mexicans under Santa Anna
defeated by the Americans under General Scott.
1847, April 18, Tuspan in Mexico taken by Commodore Perry.
1847, May 1, Smithsonian Institution at Washington, corner-stone laid.
1847, August 20, battle of Contreras and Churubusco, in Mexico. Mexicans
defeated by Americans under General Smith, part of General Scott’s
command.
1847, August 31, new constitution of Illinois adopted by State
Convention.
1847, September 8, battle of Molina del Rey, near the city of Mexico.
The Americans under General Worth (part of Scott’s command) defeated the
Mexicans under General Santa Anna.
1847, September 12-14, battle of Chapultepec, near Mexico; the
Americans, under Generals Scott, Worth, Pillow and Quitman, defeat the
Mexicans under Santa Anna. General Scott and American army enter the
city of Mexico on the 14th.
1847, September 13 to October 12, siege of Puebla, held by the Americans
against the Mexicans. The latter repulsed by the former under Colonel
Childs.
1847, October 9, the city of Huamantla, in Mexico, taken by the
Americans under General Lane.
1847, October 20, part of Guayamas, in Mexico, bombarded and captured by
the Americans.
1847, December 31, the several Mexican states occupied by the American
army placed under military contributions.
1848, January 27, a national convention to nominate president and
vice-president called by the Whig members of Congress. At an adjourned
meeting it was resolved that the convention meet at Independence Hall,
Philadelphia.
1848, February 18, by a general order, Major-General Scott turns over
the command of the U. S. army in Mexico to Major-General Butler.
1848, May 22-26, the Democratic National Convention at Baltimore
nominate General Louis Cass, of Michigan, for President, and General
William O. Butler, of Kentucky, for Vice-President.
1848, May 25, Major-General Scott received by the municipal authorities
of the city of New York.
1848, May 29, Wisconsin admitted into the Union.
1848, May 30, treaty of peace between the United States and Mexico,
which had been signed at Guadalupe Hidalgo, February 2, 1848, afterwards
modified at Washington, and confirmed by the Mexican Congress, ratified
by the American commissioners, Sevier and Clifford, and Mexican minister
of foreign relations, Don Luis de la Rosa. It was proclaimed in the
United States July 4, 1848.
1848, June 7, 8, the Whig National Convention meet at Philadelphia, and
on the second day, fourth ballot, nominate General Zachary Taylor for
President, and, on second ballot, Hon. Millard Fillmore for
Vice-President.
1848, June 22, 23, Democratic Convention at Utica, New York, nominate
Martin Van Buren for President, and Henry Dodge (who declined June 29)
for Vice-President.
1848, July 4, corner-stone of monument to General Washington, laid at
the city of Washington, oration by Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, Speaker of
the United States House of Representatives.
1848, August 13, Oregon territorial bill, with prohibition of slavery,
passed by Congress.
1848, August 9, 10, Free Soil Convention at Buffalo nominate Martin Van
Buren, of New York, for President, and Charles Francis Adams, of
Massachusetts, for Vice-President. Sixteen states were represented by
delegates.
1848, August 14, adjournment of the 30th Congress, first session.
1848, August 17, destructive fire at Albany, New York.
1848, September 9, destructive fire at Brooklyn, New York.
1848, November 7, presidential election.
1848, December 4, meeting of the 30th Congress, second session.
1848, December 6, Taylor and Fillmore elected President and
Vice-President by the electoral colleges.
1849, March 5, inauguration of Zachary Taylor as President, and of
Millard Fillmore as Vice-President, of the United States.
1849, May 15, the cholera breaks out in New York.
1849, May 17, great fire at St. Louis.
1849, August 11, General Taylor, president of the United States, issues
his proclamation against the armed expedition fitting out for Cuba.
1849, August 21, citizens of Santa Fe county, New Mexico, meet to
organize a territorial government.
1849, August 31, convention of delegates, called by General Riley, of
the United States army, to frame a state constitution for California,
meet at Monterey.
1849, September 4, California convention organize.
1849, October 10, annexation to United States memorial, at Montreal,
Canada, signed by over 300 citizens of Canada.
1849, October 10, initial point of the boundary line between the United
States and Mexico settled, and a monument with inscriptions erected Lat.
32 deg. 31 min. 59 sec. 58, and Long. 119 deg. 35 min. 0 sec. 15, west
from Greenwich.
1849, October 16, convention of delegates from fourteen states in favor
of a national railroad from the Mississippi to the Pacific, meet at St.
Louis, and issue an address. Senator Douglas, of Illinois, presides.
1849, October 16, Mr. Chatfield takes possession of the island of Tigre,
in the state of Honduras, in the name of the British Queen.
1849, November 1, the first territorial legislature of Minnesota closes
its sitting of sixty days.
1849, November 19, the survey of the boundary line between Pennsylvania,
Delaware and Maryland, comprising a greater part of Mason and Dixon’s
line, is completed.
1849, December 2, first session of 31st Congress commences.
1849, December 21, House of Representatives organized by the selection
of Howell Cobb as speaker, on the sixty-third trial.
1850, January 9, the British government announce to Lord Elgin, Governor
General of Canada, their determination to maintain the connection of
Canada with Great Britain.
1850, January 15, the Hungarian exiles call on President Taylor, and the
usual interchange of civilities takes place.
1850, January 19, the Spanish minister at Washington complains to the
Secretary of State of the Cuban juntos at New York, New Orleans and
Washington.
1850, February 12, the original manuscript of Washington’s Farewell
Address is sold at auction, by the heirs of Mr. Claypole, printer, and
purchased by James Lenox, Esq., of New York, for $2,300.
1850, February 22, President Taylor attends the laying of the
corner-stone of the Virginia monument to Washington, at Richmond.
1850, April 20, the people of Santa Fe county, New Mexico, hold a
convention and request the military governor of New Mexico, Col. John
Monroe, to call upon the citizens to elect members for a convention to
form a State constitution.
1850, April 27, Collins line of steam packets goes into operation. The
steamer Atlantic sails from New York for Liverpool.
1850, May 7, a meeting of southern members of both Houses of Congress is
held at Washington, and reports an address to the people of the Southern
states.
1850, May 23, two vessels, the Advance and Rescue, fitted out by Mr.
Henry Grinnell, of New York, to search for Sir John Franklin in the
Arctic seas, sail from New York.
1850, June 3, a southern convention of delegates meet at Nashville,
Tennessee, to consult on the slavery question agitated in the North and
in Congress. They afterward issue an address, and adjourn, after a short
session.
1850, June 14, great fire at San Francisco, California, destroys three
hundred buildings.
1850, July 1, Governor Bell, of Texas, calls a special session of the
legislature on the boundary question, to meet on the 12th of August.
1850, July 9, death of President Taylor; great fire in Philadelphia.
1850, July 31, railroad convention at Portland, Maine, in favor of a
railroad to Halifax, through the British provinces.
1850, August 12, the legislature of Texas meet at Austin, and assume
hostile attitude on the boundary question; which, however, is afterwards
settled by the action of Congress.
1850, September 9, California admitted into the Union.
1850, September 9, Texas boundary bill passed by Congress.
1850, September 9, New Mexico and Utah bills passed.
1850, September 18, fugitive slave act passed.
1850, September 20, act for the suppression of the slave trade in the
District of Columbia, passed.
1850, September 30, thirty-first Congress adjourns after a session of
302 days.
1850, October 7, Indiana convention, for amending the State
Constitution, assembles at Indianapolis.
1850, October 14, Virginia convention, for amending the State
Constitution, assembles at Richmond.
1850, October 23, a woman’s rights convention is held at Rochester,
Massachusetts.
1850, October 26, great union meeting at Dayton, Ohio.
1850, October 30, great union meeting at Castle Garden, New York.
1850, November 1, the mortal remains of the late President Taylor
deposited in the family cemetery near Louisville, Kentucky.
1850, November 4, Maryland convention, to amend the State Constitution,
meets at Annapolis.
1850, November 6, New Hampshire convention, to amend the State
Constitution, meets at Concord.
1850, November 11, Southern States Rights Convention meets at Nashville,
Tennessee.
1850, November 31, great union meeting at Philadelphia.
1850, December 16, great union meeting at Bath, Maine.
1851, April 25, President Fillmore issues his proclamation against Cuban
expeditions.
1851, May 3, great fire at San Francisco, California. Nearly two
thousand five hundred buildings destroyed, and several lives lost.
1851, May 8, South Carolina Southern Rights Convention meets at
Charleston, and resolves for a dissolution of the Union.
1851, June 22, another great fire at San Francisco, which lays a large
portion of the city in ashes.
1851. August 3, expedition against Cuba, under General Lopez, sails from
New Orleans.
1851, August 29, convention of delegates at Lewis county, Oregon,
memorialize Congress for a division of the territory into two
governments.
1851, September to, the steam-frigate Mississippi, by order of the
United States government, received Kossuth, ex-Governor of Hungary, and
suite on board, at the Dardanelles, from a Turkish frigate.
1851, October 22, President Fillmore issues his proclamation against a
private military expedition against Mexico.
1851, November 10, the United States steamer Mississippi arrives in New
York with the exiled companions of Kossuth, forty-two in number, Kossuth
having remained to visit England on his way to the United States.
1851, December 6, Kossuth, ex-Governor of Hungary, arrives in New York
from England, and is honored with a public reception.
1851, December 24, library of Congress, at Washington, destroyed by
fire.
1851, December 31, Kossuth formally received at Washington by President
Fillmore.
1852, January 5, Kossuth publicly received by Congress.
1852, June 24, first national agricultural convention, representing
twenty-two states, assembles at Washington.
1852, July 5, Louisiana convention, for revising the State Constitution,
assembles at Baton Rouge.
1852, July 16, Kossuth leaves New York for Liverpool, on his return to
Europe.
1852, August 31, thirty-second Congress, first session, adjourns.
1852, December 1, Mr. Everett, secretary of state, declines, on the part
of the United States government, the tripartite convention respecting
Cuba, proposed by England and France.
1852, December 20, William R. King, on account of ill health, resigns
his office of president _pro tem._ of the Senate.
1853, February 9, votes for President and Vice-President opened and
counted in Congress. Pierce and King are declared duly elected for four
years from March 4.
1853, February 25, President Fillmore convened the Senate, by
proclamation, for twelve o’clock on the 4th of March, instead of eleven
o’clock, as by a former proclamation, the present senate deeming that
their term does not expire until noon of that day.
1853, March 4, inauguration of Franklin Pierce as President of the
United States.
1853, March 24, William R. King is sworn in as Vice-President at Cumbre,
near Matanzas, on the island of Cuba, Consul Sharkey administering the
oath.
1853, April 30, Delaware state convention adopt a new constitution and
adjourn after a session of fifty-five days. The constitution was
rejected by the people October 11, 1853.
1853, May 4, Massachusetts state convention, to revise the constitution,
meets at Boston. It adjourns August 1, having framed a state
constitution, which was rejected by the votes of the people.
1853, June 6, a southern convention assembles at Memphis, Tennessee.
1853, June 21, Martin Koszta, a Hungarian refugee, who had declared his
intentions to become a citizen of the United States, being seized by the
officers of an Austrian brig-of-war in the harbor of Smyrna, in Turkey,
is rescued by Captain Ingraham, of the United States sloop-of-war St.
Louis.
1853, July 8, the United States expedition to Japan, under Commodore
Perry, arrives at Japan. He lands on the 14th, and delivers to the
Japanese authorities a letter to the emperor from the President of the
United States, and a few days after leaves the islands, intending to
return to Japan the following year.
1853, July 14, the Crystal Palace, or exhibition of the arts of all
nations, is opened at New York, in presence of the President of the
United States and other dignitaries, attended by a large audience.
1853, August 29, Mr. Hulsemann, the Austrian minister at Washington,
addresses a note to the American government, complaining of Captain
Ingraham’s conduct in the affair of the release of Koszta at Smyrna; to
which the secretary of state, Mr. Marcy, afterward replied in
justification of Capt. Ingraham.
1854, Treaty with Japan.
1854, Kansas-Nebraska bill passed.
1857, March 4, James Buchanan inaugurated President; John C.
Breckinridge inaugurated Vice-President.
1858, May 11, Minnesota admitted into the Union.
1859, February 14, Oregon admitted into the Union.
1859, John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry.
1860, December 20, Secession of South Carolina.
1860, Population of the United States 31,443,322.
1861, January 9, Secession of Mississippi.
1861, January 10, Secession of Alabama and Florida.
1861, January 19, Secession of Georgia.
1861, January 26, Secession of Louisiana.
1861, January 29, Kansas admitted into the Union.
1861, February 1, Secession of Texas.
1861, February 4, Southern Confederacy formed. Jefferson Davis elected
President, and Alexander H. Stephens Vice-President of the Confederate
States.
1861, March 4, Abraham Lincoln inaugurated President of the United
States. Hannibal Hamlin inaugurated Vice-President.
1861, April 12, Fort Sumter fired upon.
1861, April 13, Fort Sumter surrendered.
1861, April 18, Harper’s Ferry seized.
1861, April 21, Norfolk Navy Yard seized.
1861, April 25, Secession of Virginia.
1861, May 6, Secession of Arkansas.
1861, May 20, Secession of North Carolina.
1861, June 8, Secession of Tennessee.
1861, July 5, battle near Carthage, Missouri.
1861, July 11, battle of Rich Mountain, Virginia.
1861, July 14, battle at Carrick’s Ford, Virginia.
1861, July 20, Confederate Congress met at Richmond, Virginia.
1861, July 21, battle of Bull Run, Virginia.
1861, August 10, battle of Wilson’s Creek, Missouri.
1861, August 29, forts at Hatteras Inlet captured.
1861, September 20, Lexington, Missouri, captured by the Confederates.
1861, October 21, battle at Ball’s Bluff, Virginia.
1861, November 7, battle of Belmont, Missouri.
1861, November 7, Port Royal, South Carolina, captured.
1861, November 8, seizure of Mason and Slidell.
1862, February 6, capture of Fort Henry, Tennessee.
1862, February 8, capture of Roanoke Island, North Carolina.
1862, February 16, capture of Fort Donelson.
1862, May 7-8, battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas.
1862, March 8, the Merrimac sinks the Cumberland and Congress.
1862, March 9, the Merrimac checked by the Monitor.
1862, March 14, capture of New Berne, North Carolina.
1862, March 23, battle at Winchester, Virginia.
1862, April 4, McClellan commenced his Peninsula campaign.
1862, April 7, battle of Shiloh.
1862, April 7, Island No. 10 captured.
1862, April 11, Fort Pulaski, Georgia, surrendered.
1862, April 25, New Orleans captured.
1862, April 25, Beaufort, South Carolina, captured.
1862, April 28, Forts St. Philip and Jackson, Louisiana, captured.
1862, May 4, capture of Yorktown, Virginia.
1862, May 5, battle of Williamsburg, Virginia.
1862, May 10, Norfolk, Virginia, captured by General Wool.
1862, May 30, Corinth, Mississippi, captured.
1862, May 31, and June 1, battle of Fair Oaks.
1862, June 3, Lee assumed command of the Confederate army before
Richmond.
1862, June 6, surrender of Memphis, Tennessee.
1862, June 25, Seven Days battles commenced.
1862, August 9, battle at Cedar Mountain.
1862, August 30, second battle of Bull Run.
1862, September 5, Lee invaded Maryland.
1862, September 14, battle of South Mountain, Maryland.
1862, September 15, Stonewall Jackson captured Harper’s Ferry.
1862, September 17, battle of Antietam.
1862, September 17, battle of Munfordsville.
1862, September 19, battle of Iuka, Mississippi.
1862, October 4, battle at Corinth, Mississippi.
1862, December 13, battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia.
1862, December 29, attack on Vicksburg, Mississippi.
1862, December 31, first battle of Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
1863, January 1, “Emancipation Proclamation.”
1863, January 2, second battle of Murfreesboro.
1863, January 11, capture of Arkansas Post, Arkansas.
1863, April 7, naval attack on Fort Sumter.
1863, April 17 to May 1, Grierson’s raid in Mississippi.
1863, May 1, battle at Port Gibson, Mississippi.
1863, May 2 and 3, battles at Chancellorsville, Virginia.
1863, June, Lee’s second invasion of Maryland.
1863, June 20, West Virginia admitted into the Union.
1863, July 1-2, battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
1863, July 4, capture of Vicksburg.
1863, July 8, capture of Port Hudson, Louisiana.
1863, September 7, capture of Fort Wagner.
1863, September 10, Little Rock, Arkansas, captured.
1863, September 19-20, battle of Chickamauga, Georgia.
1863, November 18, Knoxville, Tennessee, besieged.
1863, November 24, battle of Lookout Mountain.
1863, November 23-25, battle at Chattanooga.
1863, November 25, battle at Missionary Ridge.
1863, December 3, siege of Knoxville raised.
1864, March and April, Red river expedition.
1864, April 20, Plymouth, North Carolina, captured by the Confederates.
1864, May 5-7, battle of the Wilderness, Virginia.
1864, May 7-12, battles near Spottsylvania Court House.
1864, May 15, battle of Resaca, Georgia.
1864, May 25-28, battles near Dallas, Georgia.
1864, June 3, battle at Cold Harbor.
1864, June 15-17, battle of Lost Mountain, Georgia.
1864, June 19, the Alabama sunk by the Kearsarge.
1864, July 5, Early invaded Maryland.
1864, July 9, battle at Monocacy, Maryland.
1864, July 20-22-28, battles before Atlanta, Georgia.
1864, August 5, battle in Mobile Bay.
1864, September 2, Atlanta, Georgia, captured.
1864, September 19, battle at Winchester, Virginia.
1864, October 19, battle of Cedar Creek.
1864, October 31, Nevada admitted into the Union.
1864, November 14, Sherman left Atlanta for Savannah.
1864, November 20, Milledgeville, Georgia, captured.
1864, November 30, battle of Franklin, Tennessee.
1864, December 13, Fort McAllister, Georgia, captured.
1864, December 15-16, Hood defeated by Thomas at Nashville.
1864, December 21, Savannah, Georgia, captured.
1865, January 15, Fort Fisher, North Carolina, captured.
1865, February 17, Columbia, South Carolina, captured.
1865, February 18, Charleston, South Carolina, captured.
1865, February 22, Wilmington, North Carolina, captured.
1865, March 25, attack on Fort Steadman, Virginia.
1865, April 1, battle at Five Forks, Virginia.
1865, April 3, Petersburg and Richmond captured.
1865, April 9, Lee surrendered.
1865, April 13, Raleigh, North Carolina, captured.
1865, April 14, President Lincoln assassinated.
1865, April 15, Andrew Johnson (Vice-President), inaugurated President.
1865, April 26, surrender of Johnston’s army.
1865, May 8, surrender of Taylor.
1865, May 26, Kirby Smith surrendered.
1866, Submarine telegraph laid.
1867, March 1, Nebraska admitted into the Union.
1867, October, Russian America purchased.
1868, President Johnson impeached and acquitted.
1868, Treaty with China.
1869, March 4, Ulysses S. Grant inaugurated President; Schuyler Colfax,
inaugurated Vice-President.
1869, Pacific railroad completed.
1870, Population of the United States, 38,556,000.
1871, October 7-8-9, great fire in Chicago.
1872, Great fire in Boston.
1873, March 4, Grant re-inaugurated President; Henry Wilson inaugurated
Vice-President.
1876, January 1, Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, dedicated.
1876, February 18, bill passed abolishing the death penalty in Maine.
1876, March 2, Secretary Belknap impeached.
1876, March 14, bill to reduce the President’s salary, passed by the
Senate.
1876, Mar. 22, the Republican State Convention assembled at Syracuse.
1876, Mar. 29, the Consular and Diplomatic appropriation bill passed by
the United States Senate.
1876, April 10, silver currency bill passed by the Senate.
1876, April 14, statue to President Lincoln in Washington unveiled.
1876, April 15, Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, arrives in New York.
1876, May 10, the International Centennial Exhibition opened aT
Philadelphia by President Grant.
1876, May 17, Gen. Terry’s expedition against Sitting Bull.
1876, June 4, arrival of the Jarrett and Palmer train in San Francisco
from New York, in eighty hours and twenty minutes.
1876, June 14, the Sixth National Republican Convention met at
Cincinnati.
1876, June 16, Gov. Rutherford B. Hayes, of Ohio, nominated at
Cincinnati as candidate for President.
1876, June 22, battle at Rosebud Creek, between the Sioux and Gen.
Crook’s command.
1876, June 27, meeting of the Democratic National Convention in St.
Louis.
1876, June 29, Samuel J, Tilden nominated for President by the Democrats
at St. Louis.
1876, July 2, death of Gen. Custer with 300 of his command.
1876, July 4, Colorado admitted into the Union.
1876, August 1, Secretary of War Belknap acquitted by the court of
impeachment at Washington.
1876, September 24, Hallett’s Point Reef, at Hell Gate blown up by Gen.
Newton.
1876, November 10, the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia closed.
1876, December 5, the Brooklyn Theater burned, nearly 300 people
perished in the flames.
1877, March 4, Rutherford B. Hayes inaugurated President of the United
States; William A. Wheeler inaugurated Vice-President.
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT.
THE EXECUTIVE.
SALARY.
Rutherford B. Hayes, of Ohio, President $50,000
William A. Wheeler, of New York, Vice-President 8,000
THE CABINET.
SALARY.
William M. Evarts, of New York, Secretary of State 8,000
John Sherman, of Ohio, Secretary of Treasury 8,000
George W. McCrary, of Iowa, Secretary of War 8,000
Richard M. Thompson, of Indiana, Secretary of Navy 8,000
Carl Schurz, of Missouri, Secretary of Interior 8,000
Charles Devens, of Massachusetts, Attorney General 8,000
D. M. Key, of Tennessee, Postmaster General 8,000
SUPREME COURT.
DIS.
Morrison R. Waite, of Ohio Chief Justice 4
Nathan Clifford, of Maine Associate Justice 1
Ward Hunt, of New York Associate Justice 2
William Strong, of Pennsylvania Associate Justice 3
Joseph P. Bradley, of New Jersey Associate Justice 5
Noah H. Swayne, of Ohio Associate Justice 6
Samuel F. Miller, of Iowa Associate Justice 7
Vacant Associate Justice 8
Stephen J. Field, of California Associate Justice 9
UNITED STATES ARMY ORGANIZATION.
GENERAL OFFICERS.
William T. Sherman General.
Philip H. Sheridan Lieut. General.
MAJOR GENERALS.
Winfield S. Hancock,
John M. Schofield,
Irvin McDowell.
BRIGADIER GENERALS.
George Crook,
John Pope,
Oliver O. Howard,
Alfred H. Terry,
E. O. C. Ord,
Christopher C. Augur.
ADJUTANT GENERAL.
Edward D. Townsend, Brigadier General and Brevet Major General.
QUARTERMASTER GENERAL.
Montgomery C. Meigs, Brigadier General and Brevet Major General.
COMMISSARY GENERAL OF SUBSISTENCE.
Robert Macfeely, Brigadier General.
JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL.
W. McKee Dunn, Brigadier General.
SURGEON GENERAL.
Joseph K. Barnes, Brigadier General and Brevet Major General.
PAYMASTER GENERAL.
Benjamin Alvord, Brigadier General and Brevet Major General.
CHIEF ENGINEER.
A. A. Humphreys, Brigadier General and Brevet Major General.
CHIEF OF ORDNANCE.
Stephen V. Benet, Brigadier General.
CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER.
Albert J. Myer, Colonel and Brevet Brigadier General.
FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS,
As constituted Jan. 1, 1877.
[Republicans designated thus: r; Democrats thus: d; Independents thus:
i.]
SENATE.
THOMAS W. FERRY, of Michigan, President.
ALABAMA.
George Goldthwaite, d 1877
George E. Spencer, r 1879
ARKANSAS.
Powell Clayton, r 1877
Stephen W. Dorsey, r 1879
CALIFORNIA.
Aaron A. Sargent, r 1879
Newton Booth, i 1881
COLORADO.
Jerome B. Chaffee, r 1879
Henry M. Teller, r 1883
CONNECTICUT.
William H. Barnum, d 1879
William W. Eaton, d 1881
DELAWARE.
Eli Saulsbury, d 1877
Thomas F. Bayard, d 1881
FLORIDA.
Simon B. Conover, r 1879
Charles W. Jones, d 1881
GEORGIA.
Thomas M. Norwood, d 1877
John B. Gordon, d 1879
ILLINOIS.
John A. Logan, r 1877
Richard J. Oglesby, r 1879
INDIANA.
Oliver P. Morton, r 1879
Joseph E. McDonald, d 1881
IOWA.
George G. Wright, r 1877
William B. Allison, r 1879
KANSAS.
James M. Harvey, r 1877
John J. Ingalls, r 1879
KENTUCKY.
John W. Stevenson, d 1877
Thomas C. McCreery, d 1879
LOUISIANA.
J. Rodman West, r 1877
Vacant 1879
MAINE.
Hannibal Hamlin, r 1881
James G. Blaine, r 1883
MARYLAND.
George R. Dennis, d 1879
William Pinkney Whyte, d 1881
MASSACHUSETTS.
George S. Boutwell, r 1877
Henry L. Dawes, r 1881
MICHIGAN.
Thomas W. Ferry, r 1883
Isaac P. Christiancy, i 1881
MINNESOTA.
William Windom, r 1883
Samuel J. R. McMillan, r. 1881
MISSISSIPPI.
James L. Alcorn, r 1877
Branch K. Bruce, r 1881
MISSOURI.
Louis V. Bogy, d 1879
Francis M. Cockrell, d 1881
NEBRASKA.
Phinneas W. Hitchcock, r 1877
Algernon S. Paddock, r 1881
NEVADA.
John P. Jones, r 1879
William Sharon, r 1881
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Aaron H. Cragin, r 1877
Bainbridge Wadleigh, r 1879
NEW JERSEY.
Frederick Frelinghuysen, r 1877
Theodore F. Randolph, d 1881
NEW YORK.
Roscoe Conklin, r 1879
Francis Kernan, d 1881
NORTH CAROLINA.
Mathew W. Ransom, d 1883
Augustus S. Merriman, d 1879
OHIO.
John Sherman, r 1879
Allen G. Thurman, d 1881
OREGON.
James K. Kelley, d 1879
John H. Mitchell, r 1881
PENNSYLVANIA.
Simon Cameron, r 1879
William A. Wallace, d 1881
RHODE ISLAND.
Henry B. Anthony, r 1883
Ambrose E. Burnside, r 1881
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Thomas J. Robertson, r 1877
John J. Patterson, r 1879
TENNESSEE.
Henry Cooper, d 1877
David McKendree Key, d 1881
TEXAS.
Morgan C. Hamilton, d 1877
Samuel B. Maxey, d 1881
VERMONT.
Justin S. Morrill, r 1879
George F. Edmunds, r 1881
VIRGINIA.
Robert E. Withers, d 1881
John W. Johnson, d 1883
WEST VIRGINIA.
Henry G. Davis, d 1877
Samuel Price, d 1881
WISCONSIN.
Timothy O. Howe, r 1879
Angus Cameron, r 1881
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
ALABAMA.
1 Jere Haralson, r.
2 Jere N. Williams, d.
3 Taul Bradford, d.
4 Charles Hays, r.
5 John H. Caldwell, d.
6 Goldsmith W. Hewitt, d.
At large--W. H. Forney, d., Burwell B. Lewis, d.
ARKANSAS.
1 Lucien C. Gause, d.
2 William F. Slemmons, d.
3 William W. Wilshire, d.
4 Thomas M. Gunter, d.
CALIFORNIA.
1 William A. Piper, d.
2 Horace F. Page, r.
3 John K. Luttrell, d.
4 Peter D. Wigginton, d.
COLORADO.
James B. Belford, r.
CONNECTICUT.
1 George M. Landers, d.
2 James Phelps, d.
3 John T. Wait, r.
4 Levi Warner, d.
DELAWARE.
James Williams, d.
FLORIDA.
1 William J. Purman, r.
2 Jesse J. Finley, d.
GEORGIA.
1 Julien Hartridge, d.
2 William E. Smith, d.
3 Philip Cook, d.
4 Henry R. Harris, d.
5 Milton A. Candler, d.
6 James H. Blount, d.
7 William H. Felton, d.
8 Alexander H. Stephens, d.
9 Benjamin H. Hill, d.
ILLINOIS.
1 Bernard G. Caulfield, d.
2 Carter H. Harrison, d.
3 J. V. Le Moyne, d.
4 Stephen A. Hurlbut, r.
5 Horatio C. Burchard, r.
6 Thomas J. Henderson, r.
7 Alexander Campbell, i.
8 Grenbury L. Fort, r.
9 Richard H. Whiting, r.
10 John C. Bagby, d.
11 Scott Wike, d.
12 William M. Springer, d.
13 A. E. Stevenson, i.
14 Joseph G. Cannon, r.
15 John R. Eden, d.
16 William A. J. Sparks, d.
17 William R. Morrison, d.
18 William Hartzell, d.
19 William B. Anderson, i.
INDIANA.
1 Benoni S. Fuller, d.
2 Andrew Humphreys, d.
3 Nathan T. Carr, d.
4 Jeptha D. New, d.
5 William S. Holman, d.
6 Milton S. Robinson, r.
7 Franklin Landers, d.
8 Morton C. Hunter, r.
9 Thomas J. Cason, r.
10 William S. Haymond, d.
11 James L. Evans, r.
12 Andrew H. Hamilton, d.
13 John H. Baker, r.
IOWA.
1 George W. McCrary, r.
2 John Q. Tufts, r.
3 L. L. Ainsworth, d.
4 Henry O. Pratt, r.
5 James Wilson, r.
6 Ezekiel S. Sampson, r.
7 John A. Kasson, r.
8 James W. McDill, r.
9 Addison Oliver, r.
KANSAS.
1 William A. Phillips, r.
2 John R. Goodin, d.
3 William R. Brown, r.
KENTUCKY.
1 Andrew R. Boone, d.
2 John Y. Brown, d.
3 Charles H. Milliken, d.
4 J. Proctor Knott, d.
5 Henry Watterson, d.
6 Thomas L. Jones, d.
7 J. C. S. Blackburn, d.
8 Milton J. Durham, d.
9 John D. White, r.
10 John B. Clarke, d.
LOUISIANA.
1 Randall L. Gibson, d.
2 E. John Ellis, d.
3 Chester B. Darrall, r.
4 William M. Levy, d.
5 William B. Spencer, d.
6 Charles E. Nash, r.
MAINE.
1 John H. Burleigh, r.
2 William P. Frye, r.
3 Edwin Flye, r.
4 Harris M. Plaisted, r.
5 Eugene Hale, r.
MARYLAND.
1 Philip F. Thomas, d.
2 Charles B. Roberts, d.
3 William J. O’Brien, d.
4 Thomas Swann, d.
5 Eli J. Henkle, d.
6 William Walsh, d.
MASSACHUSETTS.
1 William W. Crapo, r.
2 Benjamin W. Harris, r.
3 Henry L. Pierce, r.
4 Josiah G. Abbott, d.
5 Nathaniel P. Banks, i.
6 Charles P. Thompson, d.
7 John K. Tarbox, d.
8 William W. Warren, d.
9 George F. Hoar, r.
10 Julius H. Seelye, i.
11 Chester W. Chapin, d.
MICHIGAN.
1 Alpheus S. Williams, d.
2 Henry Waldron, r.
3 George Willard, r.
4 Allen Potter, d.
5 William B. Williams, r.
6 George H. Durand, d.
7 Omar D. Conger, r.
8 Nathaniel B. Bradley, r.
9 Jay A. Hubbell, r.
MINNESOTA.
1 Mark H. Dunnell, r.
2 Horace B. Strait, r.
3 William S. King, r.
MISSISSIPPI.
1 L. Q. C. Lamar, d.
2 G. W. Wells, r.
3 H. D. Money, d.
4 O. R. Singleton, d.
5 Charles E. Hooker, d.
6 John R. Lynch, r.
MISSOURI.
1 Edward C. Kehr, d.
2 Erastus Wells, d.
3 William H. Stone, d.
4 Robert A. Hatcher, d.
5 Richard P. Bland, d.
6 Charles H. Morgan, d.
7 John F. Phillips, d.
8 Benjamin J. Franklin, d.
9 David Rea.
10 R. A. De Bolt, d.
11 John B. Clark, jr., d.
12 John M. Glover, d.
13 Aylett H. Buckner, d.
NEBRASKA.
Lorenzo Crounse, r.
NEVADA.
William Woodburn, r.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
1 Frank Jones, d.
2 Samuel N. Bell, d.
3 Henry W. Blair, r.
NEW JERSEY.
1 Clem H. Sinnickson, r.
2 Samuel A. Dobbins, r.
3 Miles Ross, d.
4 Robert Hamilton, d.
5 Augustus W. Cutler, d.
6 Frederick H. Teese, d.
7 A. A. Hardenbergh, d.
NEW YORK.
1 Henry B. Metcalf, d.
2 John G. Schumaker, d.
3 S. B. Chittenden, i.
4 Arch. M. Bliss, d.
5 Edwin R. Meade, d.
6 Samuel S. Cox, d.
7 David Dudley Field, d.
8 Elijah Ward, d.
9 Fernando Wood, d.
10 Abram S. Hewitt, d.
11 Benjamin A. Willis, d.
12 N. Holmes Odell, d.
13 J. O. Whitehouse, d.
14 George M. Beebe, d.
15 John H. Bagley, jr., d.
16 Charles H. Adams, r.
17 Martin I. Townsend, r.
18 Andrew Williams, r.
19 William A. Wheeler, r.
20 H. A. Hathorn, r.
21 Samuel F. Miller, r.
22 George A. Bagley, r.
23 Scott Lord, d.
24 William H. Baker, r.
25 E. W. Leavenworth, r.
26 C. D. McDougall, r.
27 Eldridge C. Lapham, r.
28 Thomas C. Platt, r.
29 Charles C. B. Walker, d.
30 John M. Davy, r.
31 George G. Hoskins, r.
32 Lyman K. Bass, r.
33 Nelson I. Norton, r.
NORTH CAROLINA.
1 Jesse J. Yeates, d.
2 John A. Hyman, r.
3 Alfred M. Waddell, d.
4 Joseph J. Davis, d.
5 Alfred M. Scales, d.
6 Thomas S. Ashe, d.
7 William M. Robbins, d.
8 Robert B. Vance, d.
OHIO.
1 Milton Sayler, d.
2 H. B. Banning, d.
3 John S. Savage, d.
4 John A. McMahon, d.
5 Americus V. Rice, d.
6 Frank H. Hurd, d.
7 Laurence T. Neal, d.
8 William Lawrence, r.
9 Early F. Poppleton, d.
10 Charles Foster, r.
11 John L. Vance, d.
12 Ansley T. Walling, d.
13 Milton I. Southard, d.
14 Jacob P. Cowen, d.
15 N. H. Van Vorhes, r.
16 Lorenzo Danford, r.
17 L. D. Woodworth, r.
18 James Monroe, r.
19 James A. Garfield, r.
20 Henry B. Payne, d.
OREGON.
Lafayette Lane, d.
PENNSYLVANIA.
1 Chapman Freeman, r.
2 Charles O’Neil, r.
3 Samuel J. Randall, d.
4 William D. Kelley, r.
5 John Robbins, d.
6 Wash Townsend, r.
7 Allen Wood, jr., r.
8 Heister Clymer, d.
9 A. Herr Smith, r.
10 William Mutchler, d.
11 Frank D. Collins, d.
12 William H. Stanton, d.
13 James B. Reilly, d.
14 John B. Packer, r.
15 Joseph Powell, d.
16 Sobieskie Ross, r.
17 John Reilly, d.
18 William S. Stenger, d.
19 Levi Maish, d.
20 Louis A. Mackey, d.
21 Jacob Turney, d.
22 James H. Hopkins, d.
23 Alexander G. Cochrane, d.
24 John W. Wallace, r.
25 George A. Jenks, d.
26 James Sheakley, d.
27 Albert G. Egbert, d.
RHODE ISLAND.
1 Benjamin T. Eames, r.
2 Latimer W. Ballou, r.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
1 Joseph Rainey, r.
2 C. W. Butts, r.
3 Solomon L. Hope, r.
4 Alexander S. Wallace, r.
5 Robert Smalls, r.
TENNESSEE.
1 William McFarland, d.
2 J. M. Thornburgh, r.
3 George G. Dibrell, d.
4 H. T. Riddle, d.
5 John M. Bright, d.
6 John F. House, d.
7 W. C. Whitthorne, d.
8 John D. C. Atkin, d.
9 W. P. Caldwell, d.
10 H. Casey Young, d.
TEXAS.
1 John H. Reagan, d.
2 David B. Culberson, d.
3 J. W. Throckmorton, d.
4 Roger Q. Mills, d.
5 John Hancock, d.
6 Gustave Schleicher, d.
VERMONT.
1 Charles H. Joyce, r.
2 Dudley C. Denison, i.
3 George W. Hendee, r.
VIRGINIA.
1 Beverly B. Douglas, d.
2 John Goode, jr., d.
3 Gilbert C. Walker, d.
4 W. H. H. Stowell, r.
5 George C. Cabell, d.
6 John R. Tucker, d.
7 John T. Harris, d.
8 Eppa Hunton, d,
9 William Terry, d.
WEST VIRGINIA.
1 Benjamin Wilson, d.
2 Charles G. Faulkner, d.
3 Frank Hereford, d.
WISCONSIN.