” 13—Harper’s Ferry, Va., besieged. It surrendered on the 15th with 11,500 men.
” 14—McClellan engages Lee’s army at South Mountain, Md. Lee retired toward the Potomac. The invasion of the North was stopped, for this time, in the East.
” 16—Munfordsville, Ky., captured by Confederates and 4,000 prisoners taken.
” 17—Lee unwilling to give up his plan of invasion, makes another stand at Antietam creek, and a great battle was fought. Near 100,000 men on each side. The result was indecisive, the losses nearly equal, both in the neighborhood of 13,000. Lee retreated across the Potomac in the night, and Harper’s Ferry was evacuated.
” 20—Gen. Rosecrans defeats the Southerners with great loss at Iuka, Miss.
” 22—President Lincoln issues an Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all the slaves free, unless the Southern States discontinued the war within 100 days.
” 27—U. S. garrison at Augusta, Ky., surrender after a very gallant fight.
Oct. 3—Battle of Corinth, Miss. Confederates defeated with great loss.
” 8-9—Battle of Perryville, Ky. Southern army having been arrested in its advance and obliged to retreat before Gen. Buell, turned on his advance and inflicted a severe blow, but are forced to resume their retreat.
” 10—Confederate cavalry, under Stuart, make a raid on Chambersburg, Penn. They capture 500 horses and many stores and hastily return to Virginia.