December Thirtieth

I changed my name when I got free
To "Mister" like the res',
But now dat I am going Home,
I likes de ol' name bes'.

Sweet voices callin' "Uncle Rome"
Seem ringin' in my ears;
An' swearin' sorter sociable,-
Ol' Master's voice I hears.

He's passed Heaven's River now, an' soon

He'll call across its foam:

"You, Rome, you damn ol' nigger,

Loose your boat an' come on Home!"

HOWARD WEEDEN

December Thirty-First

'Tis midnight's holy hour-and silence now Is brooding, like a gentle spirit, o'er

The still and pulseless world. Hark! on the winds,

The bells' deep notes are swelling. 'Tis the knell

Of the departed year. No funeral train

Is sweeping past; yet on the stream and wood,
With melancholy light, the moonbeams rest
Like a pale, spotless shroud; the air is stirred,
As by a mourner's sigh; and on yon cloud,
That floats so still and placidly through heaven,
The spirits of the seasons seem to stand—
Young Spring, bright Summer, Autumn's
solemn form,

And Winter, with his aged locks-and breathe
In mournful cadences, that come abroad
Like the far wind harp's wild and touching

wail,

A melancholy dirge o'er the dead Year,

Gone from the earth forever.

GEORGE DENISON PRENTICE

Battle of Murfreesboro, Tenn., 1862

Inder

Alabama, the, fight with the Kearsarge. June 19...

Alamance Creek, Battle of. May 16.

Alamo, the. Mch. 6..

Antietam, Battle of. Sept. 17.

Arkansas, the, destroyed. Aug. 6.

Ashby, Gen. Turner. June 6..

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Assembly, first legislative in America. July 30...... 172

Baltimore, in first bloodshed of the War. April 19.. 97

clad. Mch. 9

Breckinridge, John C. May 17; Aug. 10...

Brooke, John Mercer, constructor of the first iron-

Brown, John, execution. Dec. 2.

118, 183

67

268

Raid at Harper's Ferry. Oct. 16, 17.

Charleston "Courier" on Secession. Dec. 20

Chickamauga, Battle of. Sept. 20..

280

215

Clark, George Rogers. Feb. 23, 24..

53, 54

Clark and Lewis, Northwestern expedition. May 14. 116
Clay, Henry. June 29...

148

Coercion, opposed by border States.

Apr. 16, 17, 18;

May 20..

Confederacy, fall of. Apr. 8, 9, 10, 11

Surrender of last army.

94, 95, 96, 119

87, 88, 89, 90

122

233

36, 102, 120

86

Dixie, new version. Jan. 31; April 25; May 21

Easter, selections for. April 4, 5.

Emancipation. Jan. 11; Feb. 12; Aug. 1, 2, 3; Sept. 3

22, 45, 176, 177, 178, 201

Lincoln on. Sept. 22..

216

Southern view of. Feb. 28; June 2; Oct. 16. 58,129,230

Forrest, N. B. July 13..

159

Address to soldiers. Oct. 27

239

Tributes to. Oct. 21, 26, 29, 30, 31..235, 238, 240, 241

Fort Sullivan, defence of. June 28

147

Fort Sumter, attempts to reinforce. Jan. 9.

20

Capture of. April 14...

92

Firing upon. April 12..

91

Frederick, Md., occupied by Confederates. Sept. 9. 206

Fredericksburg, Battle of. Dec. 13...

Frietchie, Barbara, in reference to "Stonewall"

Jackson. Sept. 6 ..

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204

Gettysburg, Battle of. July 1, 2, 3, 4... 150, 151, 152, 153

Gordon, Gen. Geo. H., remarks on Jackson's sol-

Insurrection, the Southampton. Aug. 1, 2, 3.
Jackson, Gov. C. F., declaration of secession.

Jackson, Andrew. Mch. 15

Jackson, "Stonewall." Jan. 21.

Aug. 5

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179

71

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On Louisiana Purchase. April 30

Johnston, General Albert Sidney. April 6

105

86

Laurens, John. Aug. 27.

Lee, Anne Carter, monument to. Aug. 8

Lee, Henrietta, letter to Gen. Hunter. July 19.

Lee, Henry. Jan. 29...

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182

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Lee, Robert E. Jan. 19

29

Accepts presidency of Washington College.
Elected president of Washington College.
First Northern invasion. Sept. 13.

Aug. 24. 192

Aug. 4. 178

209

Hill's tribute to. Oct. 12

228

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Issues Chambersburg order. June 27.
Marries. June 30 ...

Resigns commission in United States Army. April

Sent to the rear. May 12

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