Feb. 27 Waynesboro, James River, and to Mh. 10 Meade.. Gen. Schofield & Gen. Lee.... Rear Ad. Porter Gen. Hoke..... Gen. Schofield & Rear Ad. Porter Gen. Bragg.... Virginia Central Railroad.. Gen. Sheridan.. Gen. Early..... March 2 Between Charlottesville and "2-8 Petersburg and Richmoud.... Gen. Grant..... Gen. Lee..... 3 Richmond entered by General Weitzel's colored troops. 64 44 6 Near Farmville and Sailors' Creek... Sheridan.. Lee.. 9 Surrender of Lee's army to General Grant at Appomattox 11 Fort Blakly, Mobile.... ........ Gen. Canby and Adm. Thatcher Gen. Taylor.... L 12 Surrender of Montgomery, Ala., to Gen. Wilson Gen Forrest... 44 12 Near Salisbury, N. C...... Gen. Stoneman. Gardner... 14 Assassination of President Lincoln, Ford's The atre, 66 16 Columbus & West Point, Ala.. Gen. Wilson.... 44 May by J. Wilkes 27.500 1200 26 Surrender of Gen. Johnson and his army, num bering 1 Surrender of Morgan's old command to General Hobson, 4 Surrender of Gen. Dick Taylor of all the forces of W. Mississippi 46 10 Tallahassee, Fla.. Gen. McCook...Gen. Sam. Jones 44 10 Near Boco Chico, Texas.....Col. Barrett.... Gen. Slaughter 10 Capture of Jeff Davis, Irwinsville, Ga 26 Surrender of General Kirby Smith and his army of about 6000 p. C. H., Va...... 26,115 p.. 2000. Booth. 1800 p. 1500 p.. men. 3 Confederate guns captured. Forrest and Rhoddy taken pris. oners. Selma captured and all stores. Confed. Gens. Ewell, Kershaw, 500 k. & w., 300 p. 32 Conf'd cannon captured, 4000 p 2700 p. 100 Confed. guns captured. 100,000 bales of cotton taken, THE HOMESTEAD LAW. By act of Congress of May 20, 1862, any person who is the head of a family, or who has arrived at the age of twenty-one years, or has performed service in the army or navy, and is a citizen of the United States, or shall have filed his declaration of intention to become such, and has never borne arms against the Government of the United States, or given aid and comfort to its enemies shall, from and after the 1st of January, 1863, be entitled to enter a quarter section (160 acres) of unappropriated public land, upon which he or she may have already filed a pre-emption claim, or which is subject to pre-emption, at $1.25 per acre; or 80 acres of unappropriated lands at $2.50 per acre. In order to make his or her title good to such lands, however, such person must make affidavit that such application is made for his or her exclusive use and benefit, and that said eutry is made for the purpose of actual settlement and cultivation, and not, either directly or indirectly, for the use or benefit of any other person or persons whomsoever; and upon filing the affidavit, and paying the sum of ten dollars to the register or receiver, such person shall be allowed to enter the land. specified, but no certificate or patent is issued for the land until five years from the date of such entry, and the land must, during that time be improved and nor alienated, (it can not be taken for debt). At any time. within two years after the expiration of said five years the person making the entry, or, in case of his or her death, his widow or heirs, may, on proof by witnesses that he or she has cultivated or improved said land, has not alienated any part of it, and has borne true allegiance to the United States, be entitled to a patent, if at that time a citizen of the United States. In case of the abandonment of the lands by the person making the entry, for a period of more than six months at one time, they revert to the Uhited States. |