Pictorial history of the war for the Union, volume 2 (of 2)

by Ann S. Stephens

26. The steamer Dai Ching attacked by rebels on the Combahee river; gets aground, is abandoned and burned.

26. Emancipation Acts of Missouri and Tennessee celebrated in New Orleans.

26. Part of the 75th Ohio captured by treachery.

27. Gen. Robert E. Breckinridge appointed rebel Secretary of War.

28. Rebel House resolves to arm negroes.

28. Valley Station, Omaha, attacked by Indians; 12 men killed and 650 head of cattle stolen.

30. Messrs. Stephens, Campell and Hunter enter Union lines as Peace Commissioners.

30. Jackson Burroughs, a Treasury clerk, shot by Miss Mary Harris.

31. The Anti-Slavery Constitutional Amendment passed by House, 19 to 56.

Feb. 1. Secretary Seward leaves for Fortress Monroe to meet rebel Commissioners.