Sheridan, having laid waste the Shenandoah valley, returns South.
” 8—Sheridan defeats the Confederates again in the Shenandoah valley.
” 11—Maryland votes for a constitution abolishing slavery.
” 19—Sheridan annihilated Early, at Cedar Creek, by his famous “ride from Winchester,” and rallying his men, after they had been defeated.
Confederate refugees from Canada rob a bank in St. Albans, Vt.
” 23—Gen. Price defeated at Blue river, Missouri.
” 27—Gen. Grant closes the active campaign by an extensive reconnaissance.
” 28—Gen. Blunt defeats Price and drives him out of Missouri. He returns no more.
Nov.—Gen. Hood, in command of the forces in Georgia, withdrew from the neighborhood of Atlanta, for the purpose of destroying Sherman’s base of supplies, and invading Tennessee and Kentucky. He had now about 40,000 men. Gen. Thomas was sent into Tennessee, by Sherman, with a strong force, to contend with him; and Sherman, breaking away from his northern connections, commences his celebrated “march to the sea,” in which he is lost to his friends for 40 days, but reaches Savannah in safety.
” 4—Johnsonville, Tenn., bombarded. 3 gunboats and 8 transports, with $1,500,000 of stores destroyed.