Show THE YEAR 1863 A RE CORD OF ITS EVE AITS progress prot ress of the war for the union i the great campaigns and battles LIST OF THE distinguished DEAD d ithe WAR FOR FOB THE UNION n t DECEMBER 1 first by the capture of fort Es speranza gen banks texas eppedi tioila gained possession of tho the entire a coast i of texas save galveston 6 third en gilmore continues the j shelling of charleston cr creating great indignation among the rebels there valto fourth arth gen posters fosters troops came up in the 1 icar car of longs tract and forced deim him to abandon the of knox aville tv ille Longst longstreet then fell back toward f southwestern virginia 7 fifth great meeting at little rock f ark in favor of the reconstruction of r tue union without slavery seventh congress met at washing iton and union war candidates were elected 10 sted as officers IM jeff davis sent in m his message to the rebel congress the steamer chesapeake which had york for portland on saturday was captured by a party of pirates who had gone as passengers 0 ers and they to took io k of the vessel as a capture to the rebel states killing hilling 10 B s oma me of the officers and wouD wounding dinc 0 eighth ln in the 1 abel congress senator II 11 si S foote denounced jeff davis as being the ruin of the confederacy floan his false policy ninth i nth president Lincol ns third annual message 0 sent in to congress 0 annexed was a proclamation a pardon to all jeveli rab als below the rank of colonel in the army and lieutenant in the navy except those who have held diplomatic offices and those who have brutally treated union prisoners prison cis ets eleventh foit sumter set bet on ane f lie by fejt gon Gil moros mores shells and the city steadily shelled by our forces v lh general scammon routed T the ichel echols at lewisburg va 1 the lc rebel morgan across the tann auve though two of his officers ficeri of wore were c captured colonel colne I 1 west drove the rebels from etc m iles laiad y j hava jv P C capturing apt ri n 90 men J ata l 1 i thirteenth georgetown S carolina lia ina burned burned by its dw own n citizens with a large quantity of Rebel stores pi Lincol ns message I 1 and amnesty proclamation published dished in richmond and scolded by the rebel organs w r i T the house of representatives at IN washington r 1 I lh anglon by 89 nays jays laid table certain peace propositions of fernando ernando F wood 4 longstreet on his retreat from fro knoxville turned and checked the pursuit of general schofield at Be bean beanca anta sta astl Tenn fifteenth union meetings held at va ansas si sixteenth gen Johni Buford died at ington havin cabeen appointed appod anted major general a few hours before his gen butler retook cb charger argei althe afi ithe question of the exchange of prisoners gen averill cut the virg virginia inia and tennessee railroad at salem destroying three depots with five bridges several cu lverts telegraph wires etc an immense quantity of stores were destroyed desti oyed after 0 great labor on the part of averill Aver iII who subsequently avoided six aebel forces under early jones fitz leo lee imboden jackson echols and mccorstin McCo ustin arranged so as to try and prevent his return to 0 our ur lines in his report averill says my command marched climbed slid and swam three hundred and miles since the ath dinst 11 seventeenth the house of representatives senta tives passer passed by b y an overwhelming I 1 majority vigorous war resolutions offered by mr smith of ky the steamer chesapeake recaptured by the U S steamers ella and annie with three of the virginia vir inia crew rebel cavalry raid at San station with some loss to us eighteenth robel rebel cavalry camp captured near washington north carolina by captain blakely Blak cly of the penn vols I 1 I 1 captain walter newhall drowned near the rappahannock Rappa hannock by the falling 0 of liis his horse commodore van brunt united states navy died at dedham massachusetts I 1 nineteenth nineteen lh the pirates of the chesapeake handed over to the authorities at halifax but rescued by a mob before they had been secured twenty fird an order issued by general meade in cefere reference D cc to th the 0 re rc of veterans of the potomac army about of whom aadal ready re rc enlisted great fair at cincinnati for the ben befit of the soldiers twenty thil child d dispatches from rebels in europe captured on the blockade runner cores ceres published showing the disastrous character of the block bloc k ado running business I 1 twenty fourth official announcement an noun cc of the adoption of a passport pass system at ai new yolk to prevent vessels from leaving the port mission of the U S authorities fth at fort smith arkansas the choctow chieftain mccartin Mc Castin with other ichel indian leaders came into our lines and surrendered themselves to gen mencil they have abandoned the confederate allgai alliance lee and profess a desire to avail jhc thc themselves m of the amnesty of the presidents president dents proclamation twenty sixth sir fh while a furious wind prevailed from froin the northeast the ironclad Wee weehawken hawken lying alyin at the entrance onra enra t ra nee of charleston harbor went down at her anchorage a meliora 0 e went sudden ly y swiftly and unaccountably to t ille the bottom and carried with her to a horrible death beneath beneat li its waves four of her engineers and twenty six of lier her crew many of her of ficera and crew saved by boats from the rest of the fleet the cause of the disaster is now now the subject of a coun coult of inquiry inq kiryo i ablit ignot known whether r she san sank from 1 earel carelessness ess on tho the part f her officers loftlee r s a car artim foon dae uri original ginal ac defect fedt |