-1864 Feb. 1.

July 18.

Oct. 31.

1865 April 9.

President orders a draft for more men.
President calls for 500,000 volunteers.
Nevada admitted into the Union.

Surrender of Lee's army to Grant.

April 14. President Lincoln assassinated by John
Wilkes Booth.

Andrew Johnson inaugurated President.

27. Booth, the assassin of President Lincoln, mort-
tally wounded and captured.

May 10. Jefferson Davis captured in Georgia.
Dec. 18. Slavery abolished by the ratification of
Fifteenth Amendment by three-fourths of the
States.

1866 Atlantic Cable successfully laid.

Feb. 19. The Freedman's Bureau biil, requiring
the government to take care of the emancipated
slaves and poor whites of the South. Vetoed by
Pres. Johnson. The bill passed over his veto July 16.
March. 27. The Civil Rights Bill which accorded
to the negro every right enjoyed by the white
man, vetoed by the President.
The bill passed

Congress over his veto, April 9.

1867 March 1. Nebraska admitted as a State.

May 13. Horace Greeley and others sign Jefferson

Davi's bail bond at Richmond, Va.,and he is released.

June 20. Alaska purchased from Russia for $7,200,000.

1868 Feb. 24. President Johnson impeached by the

House, and acquitted May 16.

CABINET OFFICERS, 14TH ADMINISTRATION-1861-1869. Secretary of State.-William H. Seward, N. Y.

Secretaries of the Treasury.-Salmon P. Chase, Ohio; William Pitt Fessenden, Me.; Hugh McCulloch, Ind.

Secretaries of War.-Simon Cameron, Pa.; Edwin M. Stanton, Pa.; Ulysses S. Grant, Ill.; John M. Schofield, Mo. Secretary of the Navy.-Gideon Wells, Conn.

Secretaries of the Interior.-Caleb B. Smith, Ind.; John P. Usher, Ind.; James Harlan, Iowa; O. H. Browning, Ill. Postmasters-General.-Montgomery Blair, Md.; William Dennison, Ohio; Alex. W. Randall, Wis.

Attorneys-General.-Edward Bates, Mo.; James J. Speed, Ky.; Henry Stanberry, Ohio; William M. Evarts, N. Y. NATIONAL EXPENSES AND DEBT, 14TH ADMINISTRATION.

ULYSSES S. GRANT, Eighteenth President of the United States, was born of good English ancestry, at Point Pleasant, Clermont County, Ohio, April 27th, 1822. His grandfather, Noah Grant, fought at the battle of Lexington, and was promoted to the rank of captain. Ulysses attended school at the Academy at Ripley, Ohio, after which he entered the Military Academy at West Point, where he graduated May 15th, 1839, being then scarcely eighteen years of age. He ranked as a fair, general scholar, and excelled in mathematics.

He took part in the Mexican War, distinguishing himself for coolness and bravery, and was promoted to the rank of captain in 1853. He remained with his regiment until 1854, when he resigned, and in complete poverty returned to private

life. He tried farming and real estate business with but moderate success, after which he became a partner with his father in the leather trade, at Galena, Ill. Here he remained until President Lincoln issued his call for 75,000 troops. He wrote to the authorities at Washington, tendering his services, but received no reply. He marched to Springfield at the head of a company of volunteers. Governor Yates needed some one with military knowledge to assist him, and so made him his mustering officer. He soon held a colonel's commission, and two months later was made Brigadier-General. On the 15th of February, 1862, he captured Fort Donelson, after much hard fighting, which was the first great victory of the war. His reply to the rebel General who attempted to delay his operations, "I propose to move immediately on your works," was caught up and repeated all through the country. Grant's reputation as a fighting General was now established. At Pittsburgh Landing he was surprised: his army and his reputation suffered somewhat, but he grasped victory in his defeat.

The capture of Vicksburg, and the consequent opening of the Mississippi River, was hailed with the wildest delight all over the North, and by common consent Grant became, in fact, the Generalissimo of the forces of the United States. His rapid promotions had no evil effects upon him. Placed in command of 700,000 armed men, he announced that his headquarters would be in the field, and promptly inaugurated two grand movements, the success of which ended the struggle. One of these against Atlanta, Georgia, he committed to General Sherman; the other against Richmond, he conducted

himself. Driven from his stronghold, Lee, with the remnant of a great army, retreated to Appomattox Court House, where he surrendered to Grant, and the war ended. Grant's conduct in this great triumph was marked by a delicacy that extorted praise from his bitterest enemies on both sides.

On the 21st of May, 1868, Grant was nominated for the Presidency, and was elected over Horatio Seymour by a large majority. His first term gave such satisfaction that he was re-nominated, June 5th, 1872, and was elected over Horace Greeley. President Grant has been an honest, virtuous Executive. His tenacity for his friends, the exclusion of more capable men, has led to numerous mistakes, which have somewhat dimmed the glory of his administration.

SCHUYLER COLFAX was born in N. Y. City, Mar. 23, 1823. Removed to Indiana in 1836, and studied law and afterwards edited a newspaper. In 1851 was elected to Congress and six times re-elected. He served three terms as speaker of the House and was elected Vice-Pres. in 1860.

HENRY WILSON was born at Farmington, N. H., Feb. 16, 1812. Apprenticed to a farmer till 21 years of age, then followed shoemaking at Natick, Mass. He was a close student and filled numerous positions of trust and honor in his own State, was elected to the U. S. Senate in 1855, and served that body till elected Vice-Pres. in 1868. Died at Washington Nov.-1875.