The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-02-04

United States, died at the Hermitage Tenn.'
aged 78.
Dec. 29-Texas admitted into the Union.
1876,
Sewing machines invented by Elias Howe, OF
! Connecticut.
May s-Battle of Palo Alto in Mexico
May 9-Battle Of Resaca de Ia Palma, in
Mexico.
July 12-Second battle of Palo Alto.
Aug. 6-Wisconsin admitted into the Union.
Sept. 21-Capture of Monterey Mexico.
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Ten thousand Mormons from Illinois, under
! tile leadership of Brigham Young, entered
Deseret, now called Utah, and founded Salt
Lake City.
April ls-Battle Of Cerro Gordo, Mexico.
March 29-Surrender of Vera Cruz, Mexico.
Aug 20-Battle of Cherubusco Mexico.
Sept. S--Battle of Molino del Rey, Mexico.
Sept. 13-Battle of Chapultepec, Mexico.
Sept. 14-Attack on the City Of Mexico, which
was taken by the United States soldiers.
1S4S.
| February. Treaty of peace with Mexico. by
which California and New Mexico, with 649, 762
square miles were added to the United States.
| Feb 23-John Quincy Adams, ex-President
! 81.
July 4-The corner stone of the Washington
Monument was laid in the National Capital.
1Si9.
March 3-Florida admitted into the Union.
March Zachary Taylor of Louisiana, was
inaugurated the twelfth President of the United
| States.
June 15-James X. Polk, ex-President Of the
United States, died, aged 81.
1880.
Seventh census of the United States popu-
| lation, %, 191074.
July Zachary Taylor, President OF the
United States, died in the White House at
Washington, aged 60 years.
July l0-Millard Fillmore, of New York, Vice
President, became thirteenth President of the
United States, in consequence of the death of
Zachary Taylor.
July 4-The corner stone of the Capitol ex-
tension at Washington was laid.
Dec. 5-Louis kossuth, the Hungarian patri-
ot visited the United States.
1852.
June 29-Henry Clay died in Washington,
aged rs.
1883.
March 4-Franklin Pierce OF New Hamp-
shire was inaugurated the fourteenth Presi-
dent of the United States.
July 14-Opening of the Worlds Fair,
New York.
The Gadsden purchase from Mexico added
"a, 500 square niles to the area of the United
States.
1857.
March 4-James Buchanan. Of Pennsylvania
was inaugurated the fifteenth President OF the
United States.
Oct. 13-Great commercial panic. There were
5, l23 failures of business houses.
1858.
May 4-Minnesota admitted into the Union.
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land and Newfoundland.
1859.
Feb. 13-Oregon admitted into the Union.
Oct. 17-John Browns raid at Harpers Ferry.
Nov. 2S-Washington Irving died.
1860.
Eighth census of the United States; popula-
ton, 81, 443, 332.
National debt, sG4, 769 7O3.
July-Prince of Wales visited the United
States.
1861.
Jan. 20-Kansas admitted into the Union.
March Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois. inau-
gurated sixteenth President of the United
States.
April 12-Attack on Fort Sumter.
April 19-Massachusetts Sixth Regiment mob
bed in Baltimore.
April 20-Hsrper's Ferry burned.
July-Battle Of Bull Run, Va.
1862.
Jan. 17-John Tyler, Ex-President Of the
United States, died, aged ~.
Feb. 6-Surender of Fort Henry, Tenn.
Feb. 1G-Fort Donelson, Tenn, surrendered.
April 9-Battle of Shiloh.
June 6-Memphis surrendered.
June e26-Commencement of the seven days
battle around Richmond.
July The Union Pacific Railroad bill
signed by President Lincoln.
May 3-Battle of Charlottesville.
MAY 27-Assault on Port Hudson.
June 27-John Morgan starts on his raid
through Ohio.
July battle of Gettysburg, Pa. three
days.
July 4-Vicksburg surrendered.
July 13-New York riots commenced.
Aug. 23-The massacre at the city Of Law
renee, Kan.
Sept. 14-Battle OF South Mountain, Va.
Sept. 15-Harper's Ferry with 11,0O0 men.
surrendered.
Sept 16-Battle of Antietam, Nd.
Sept 19-Batte of Chickamauga
Sept. 22-President Lincoln issued his Eman-
cipation Proclamation.
Oct. 24-Battle on Lookout Mountain, Tenn
Nov. Gen. Mcclellan removed from the
command of the Army Of the Potomac.
Dec. 13-Battle of Fredericksburg, Va.
Dec. 27-Martin Van Buren, ex-President of
the United States. died, aged so.
Dec. 31-West Virginia made State.
1864.
April 12-Fort Pillow, Tenn, massacre.
MAY 5-Battle of the Wilderness.
May 9-Battle of Spottsylvana.
June 3-Battle of Cold HaIbor.
June 17-Commencement of the attack on
Petersburg, Va.
June 19-The Alabama commanded by Ra-
phael Semmes, sunk off Cherbourg France.
by the United States maIl-of-war Kearsarge
under command of Capt Winslow.
Oct. 12-Roger Brooke Taney, of Mar and
Chief Justice of the United States
Court, died, aged 81
Oct Battle Of Cedar Creek, in the
Shenandoah Valley.
Nov. 1G-Gen. Sherman's army commenced
its march to the sea " through Georgia.
Dec. 15-Battle Of Nashville.
1866.
Feb. 27-Gen Sheridan left Winchester with
10, 900 cavalry on his raid around Richmond.
April 2-Rchmond evacuated by the rebels
April 9-Gen. Robert Il. Lee surrendered the
rebel army in the private dwelling of one OF
the inhabitants at Appomattox Court House.
Va This virtually ended the war of the re-
bellion.
April 14-PresidCnt Lincoln was assassnated
by John Wilkes Booth.
April 15-Abraham Lincoln died
April 15-Andrew Johnson. Vice President,
of Tennessee became seventeenth President