” 26—Gen. Breckenridge, Confederate, suffered defeat in Tennessee.
” 29—An immense train arrives in Gen. Banks’ lines near Port Hudson: 600 wagons, 3,000 horses and mules, 1,500 cattle, 6,000 negroes. Gen. Banks fails in several attacks on Port Hudson.
June 3—A brilliant raid by a colored regiment in South Carolina.
” 11—Forrest, of Confederate cavalry, defeated at Triune, Tenn.
” 15—President Lincoln calls for 120,000 militia, to repel Lee’s invasion of Penn.
” 18—About 100,000 Southern forces enter Penn., near Chambersburg.
” 20—West Virginia admitted as a State into the Union. Missouri Legislature abolishes slavery.
In this month the great events of the campaign, the taking of Vicksburg and opening the Mississippi river, and the failure of Gen. Lee’s invasion by his loss of the battle of Gettysburg, are rapidly approaching the grand crisis.
July—The first days of this month formed the crisis of the war.
” 3—Gen. Lee, with 100,000 men, was defeated by Gen. Meade at Gettysburg, Pa., with about equal numbers. Lee retreated into Virginia. The Union losses at Gettysburg were 23,000. Lee had lost in his 17 days in the Free States 60,000 men altogether.