December Thirty-First

’Tis midnight’s holy hour—and silence now
Is brooding, like a gentle spirit, o’er
The still and pulseless world. Hark! on the winds,
The bells’ deep notes are swelling. ’Tis the knell
Of the departed year. No funeral train
Is sweeping past; yet on the stream and wood,
With melancholy light, the moonbeams rest
Like a pale, spotless shroud; the air is stirred,
As by a mourner’s sigh; and on yon cloud,
That floats so still and placidly through heaven,
The spirits of the seasons seem to stand—
Young Spring, bright Summer, Autumn’s solemn form,
And Winter, with his aged locks—and breathe
In mournful cadences, that come abroad
Like the far wind harp’s wild and touching wail,
A melancholy dirge o’er the dead Year,
Gone from the earth forever.
George Denison Prentice

Battle of Murfreesboro, Tenn., 1862

Index

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Alabama, the, fight with the Kearsarge. June 19 [140]
Alamance Creek, Battle of. May 16 [118]
Alamo, the. Mch. 6 [65]
Antietam, Battle of. Sept. 17 [212]
Arkansas, the, destroyed. Aug. 6 [180]
Ashby, Gen. Turner. June 6 [131]
Assembly, first legislative in America. July 30 [172]
Atlanta, evacuation of. Sept. 1, 2 [200]
Audubon, John James. May 4 [109]
Bacon, Nathaniel, epitaph. Jan. 2 [15]
Bagby, George W. Aug. 13 [185]
Baltimore, in first bloodshed of the War. April 19 [97]
Benjamin, Judah P. May 6 [111]
Bonnie Blue Flag, the. Jan. 10, 12 [21], [23]
Boston, A Southern view. Mch. 12 [69]
Breckinridge, John C. May 17; Aug. 10 [118], [183]
Brooke, John Mercer, constructor of the first ironclad. Mch. 9 [67]
Brown, John, execution. Dec. 2 [268]
Raid at Harper’s Ferry. Oct. 16, 17 [230], [231]
Calhoun, John C. Mch. 18 [74]
Nationalism of. Mch. 31 [81]
Carroll, Charles of Carrollton. Nov. 14 [255]
Charleston “Courier” on Secession. Dec. 20 [280]
Chickamauga, Battle of. Sept. 20 [215]
Clark, George Rogers. Feb. 23, 24 [53], [54]
Clark and Lewis, Northwestern expedition. May 14 [116]
Clay, Henry. June 29 [148]
Coercion, opposed by border States. Apr. 16, 17, 18; May 20 [94], [95], [96], [119]
Confederacy, fall of. Apr. 8, 9, 10, 11 [87], [88], [89], [90]
Surrender of last army. May 26 [122]
Cornwallis, surrender of. Oct. 19 [233]
Crittenden, compromise of. Dec. 19 [279]
Crockett, Col. David. Aug. 17 [188]
Custis, Hon. John, epitaph. July 11 [158]
Davis, Jefferson. June 3; Dec. 6 [129], [271]
Imprisonment. May 23, 24 [121]
Democrats, negro view of. Dec. 7 [272]
Dixie, new version. Jan. 31; April 25; May 21 [36], [102], [120]
Easter, selections for. April 4, 5 [86]
Emancipation. Jan. 11; Feb. 12; Aug. 1, 2, 3; Sept. 3 [22], [45], [176], [177], [178], [201]
Lincoln on. Sept. 22 [216]
Southern view of. Feb. 28; June 2; Oct. 16 [58], [129], [230]
Forrest, N. B. July 13 [159]
Address to soldiers. Oct. 27 [239]
Tributes to. Oct. 21, 26, 29, 30, 31 [235], [238], [240], [241]
Fort Sullivan, defence of. June 28 [147]
Fort Sumter, attempts to reinforce. Jan. 9 [20]
Capture of. April 14 [92]
Firing upon. April 12 [91]
Frederick, Md., occupied by Confederates. Sept. 9 [206]
Fredericksburg, Battle of. Dec. 13 [276]
Frietchie, Barbara, in reference to “Stonewall” Jackson. Sept. 6 [204]
Gettysburg, Battle of. July 1, 2, 3, 4 [150], [151], [152], [153]
Gordon, Gen. Geo. H., remarks on Jackson’s soldiers. Aug. 28 [195]
Gordon, Gen. John B. Feb. 6 [41]
Grady, Henry W. April 24 [101]
Hampton, Gen. Wade. Mch. 28 [79]
Harris, Joel Chandler. Dec. 9 [273]
Hayne, Paul Hamilton. Jan. 1 [14]
Henry, Patrick. May 29 [125]
Hill, Gen. A. P. April 2 [85]
Hill, Gen. D. H. July 12 [159]
Houston, Samuel, inaugurated president of Texas. Oct. 22 [236]
Insurrection, the Southampton. Aug. 1, 2, 3 [176], [177], [178]
Jackson, Gov. C. F., declaration of secession. Aug. 5 [179]
Jackson, Andrew. Mch. 15 [71]
Jackson, “Stonewall.” Jan. 21 [30]
Bill Arp’s view of. Sept. 16 [211]
Capture of Harper’s Ferry. Sept. 15 [211]
Death. May 10 [113]
Wounded. May 2 [108]
Jamestown, first legislative assembly met. July 30 [172]
Reference to. June 20 [141]
Settled. May 13 [115]
Jefferson, Thomas. April 13 [92]
On Louisiana Purchase. April 30 [105]
Johnston, General Albert Sidney. April 6 [86]
Johnston, General Jos. E. Feb. 7 [41]
Kansas, formed as territory. May 30 [125]
Kennedy, John P. Oct. 25 [238]
King’s Mountain, Battle of. Oct. 9 [226]
Ku Klux Klan. Feb. 20, 21; July 31 [50], [51], [173]
Lanier, Sidney. Feb. 3 [39]
Tabb’s tribute to. Sept. 8 [206]
Laurens, John. Aug. 27 [194]
Lee, Anne Carter, monument to. Aug. 8 [182]
Lee, Henrietta, letter to Gen. Hunter. July 19 [164]
Lee, Henry. Jan. 29 [34]
Lee, Robert E. Jan. 19 [29]
Accepts presidency of Washington College. Aug. 24 [192]
Elected president of Washington College. Aug. 4 [178]
First Northern invasion. Sept. 13 [209]
Hill’s tribute to. Oct. 12 [228]
Issues Chambersburg order. June 27 [147]
Marries. June 30 [148]
Resigns commission in United States Army. April 20 [98]
Sent to the rear. May 12 [114]
Surrender at Appomattox. April 9 [88]
The unselfish leader. Oct. 14 [229]
Lent, selections for. Mch. 19, 20 [74], [75]
Lewis, Meriwether. Oct. 11 [227]
Lincoln, Abraham, death of. April 15 [93]
On abolition. Feb. 12 [45]
On negro suffrage. Feb. 11; Aug. 12 [44], [184]
Literature, first of the New World. Mch. 13 [70]
Louisiana Territory, acquired from France. Apr. 30 [105]
Manassas, first Battle of. July 21 [166]
Marshall, Chief Justice. Sept. 24 [217]
Meade, Gen. Geo. Gordon, Southern tribute to. July 1 [150]
Negro, status of. Sept. 11 [208]
New Orleans, Liberty Place Anniversary. Sept. 14 [210]
North Point, Battle of. Sept. 12 [208]
Nullification, Northern view of. Nov. 25; Dec. 21 [263], [281]
Southern view of. Nov. 24 [262]
O’Hara, Theodore. July 20 [165]
Old South, life in the. Sept. 11, 21 [208], [216]
Oliver, Thaddeus. Aug. 9 [182]
Peggy Stewart, burning of the. Oct. 19 [233]
Poe, Edgar Allan. Oct. 7, 8 [224], [225]
First monument erected to. Nov. 17 [258]
Pope, Gen. John, Address to the Army of Potomac. Aug. 26 [193]
Polk, James Knox. Nov. 2 [244]
Port Hudson, fall of. July 9 [156]
Prisoners, mortality of. Nov. 11 [252]
Of war, exchange of. Nov. 9, 10, 12, 13 [250], [251], [253], [254]
Raleigh, Sir Walter. July 16 [162]
Reconstruction. Jan. 4; Mch. 2; Aug. 21; Oct. 21; Nov. 19, 22; Dec. 3, 4 [16], [62], [190], [235], [259], [261], [269], [270]
Bill Arp’s view of. Oct. 18; Nov. 23, 29 [232], [261], [265]
End of. July 15 [161]
Foreshadowed. April 15 [93]
Negro oratory on. Dec. 4 [270]
A prophecy of 1869. June 26 [146]
Religious Freedom in Maryland. Mch. 25, 27; Apr. 21 [77], [78], [99]
Rumsey, James, letter to, from Geo. Washington. Sept. 7 [205]
Rumsey, trial of the steamboat. Dec. 10, 11, 12 [274], [275]
Ryan, Abram J. Aug. 15 [186]
Sandys, George, first author of the New World. Mch. 13 [70]
Secession. Jan. 9, 11; Apr. 17; Aug. 5 [20], [22], [95], [179]
From the Northern standpoint. Jan. 13, 26, 27; Mch. 24; May 6, 11 [23], [33], [77], [111]
From the Southern standpoint. Jan. 10, 28; Feb. 5, 8, 9, 10, 18; Mch. 30 [21], [34], [40], [42], [43], [45], [48], [80]
South Carolina. Dec. 20 [280]
Semmes, Admiral Raphael. Sept. 27, 28 [219]
Seven Days’ Battle, beginning of. June 25 [145]
Sharpsburg, Attack at. Sept. 18 [213]
Shenandoah, surrenders last Confederate flag. Nov. 5, 6 [246], [247]
Slavery. Jan. 4; Feb. 9, 28; Aug. 1, 2, 3; Sept. 3, 21 [16], [42], [58], [176], [177], [178], [201], [216]
Bagby’s view of. Oct. 16 [230]
Northern view of. Jan. 13, 26, 27; Mch. 24; May 6; Sept. 5 [23], [33], [77], [111], [203]
From the Southern standpoint. Jan. 10, 28; Feb. 8, 9, 10, 18; Mch. 30 [21], [34], [42], [43], [48], [80]
Star Spangled Banner Anniversary. Sept. 14 [210]
Stephens, Alex. H. Mch. 4 [64]
Stuart, Gen. J. E. B. May 11 [114]
Address to soldiers. Oct. 10 [227]
Suffrage, Negro. Nov. 1 [244]
Negro restriction of. Aug. 12 [184]
Tabb, John Banister. Mch. 22 [76]
Tariff, South Carolina’s protest. Nov. 24 [262]
Taney, Chief Justice. Oct. 13 [229]
Texas. Mch. 23 [76]
Ticknor, Francis O. Dec. 18 [278]
Tilghman, Col. Tench, ride of. Oct. 23 [237]
Timrod, Henry. Oct. 6 [224]
Tribute to. Dec. 8 [272]
Trent, The, affair of. Nov. 8 [249]
Tyler, John. Mch. 29 [79]
Union, the, restored. July 15 [161]
Veteran, United Confederate, Northern tribute to. June 10 [134]
Virginia, conquering of Northwestern territory. Feb. 23, 24 [53], [54]
Opposition to Boston Port Bill. May 15 [117]
Cession of Northwestern territory. Oct. 20 [234]
Secession from, of West Virginia. June 20 [141]
Two views of. Mch. 11 [68]
University of. Mch. 7 [65]
Virginia, the, challenges Monitor. May 8 [112]
First iron-clad. Mch. 8, 9 [66], [67]
Washington, Geo. Feb. 22; Dec. 14 [52], [276]
Resigns commission. Dec. 23 [282]
War Times. Jan. 17, 18; April 26 [27], [28], [103]
Northern view of. Feb. 17, 26 [48], [56]
West Virginia, secession from Virginia sustained by Federal Government. June 20 [141]
Wilde, Richard Henry. Sept. 10 [207]
Wilderness, Battle of. May 5 [110]
William and Mary College, Northern tribute to. Feb. 14 [46]
Wirz, Henry, execution of. Nov. 10 [251]
Women, the Southern. Mch. 3; June 5 [63], [131]