Nov. 10—Henry Wirz, the inhuman keeper of Andersonville prison, hung, after trial and condemnation.
Dec. 18—Secretary Seward officially announces that the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, abolishing slavery in the United States, has been adopted by three-fourths of the States, and it is now the law of the land.
1866.
Jan. 1—Third anniversary of Emancipation celebrated by the colored people.
” 2—Funeral of Hon. Henry Winter Davis, U. S. Senator, at Baltimore.
” 12—The Kentucky University purchases the homestead of Henry Clay.
” 23—The 13th Constitutional Amendment reconsidered by the Legislature of New Jersey and passed. It had been rejected in the previous year.
” 25—Kentucky refused to pass the 13th Amendment.
” 31—Commissary and quartermaster warehouses burned, at Ft. Riley, Kansas. $1,000,000 lost.
Feb. 2—The Civil Rights bill passed the Senate.