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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Internal improvements. (search)
d in aid of the construction of the road every alternate section of public land to the amount of five alternate sections a mile on each side of the road, excepting mineral lands and all lands already disposed of or reserved. Several other roads were provided for on the same conditions, which became known as the Central Pacific, Central Branch of the Union Pacific, Kansas Pacific, and Sioux City and Pacific. It was a grant of 10 miles of land on each side of the road. By an act approved July 2, 1864, instead of five, ten sections were granted, making the area 20 miles on each side of these roads. The term mineral land was construed not to mean coal or iron. By the same act a grant of 20 miles of land was made to the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad Company for the construction of a road from the Missouri River to some point not farther west than the one hundredth meridian west longitude, to connect with the Union Pacific road. March 3, 1864, a grant of land was made to the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Shenandoah Valley, chronology of the operations in the (search)
tes under Gen. W. E. Jones at PiedmontJune 5, 1864 Hunter, joined by Crook and Averill, advances to Staunton, and instead of proceeding to Gordonsville to join Sheridan, goes to Lexington, and on June 18 threatens Lynchburg with 20,000 men; but opposed by a much stronger force, escapes into West Virginia, where his force for the time is useless. Confederate forces, now under General Early, move rapidly down the Shenandoah to the Potomac, and spread consternation from Baltimore to WashingtonJuly 2-3, 1864 Gen. Lew. Wallace attempts to check the Confederates at Monocacy, but is defeated with a loss of ninety-eight killed, 579 wounded, and 1,280 missing July 9, 1864 Confederate cavalry approach BaltimoreJuly 10, 1864 On the 11th Early is within 6 or 7 miles of Washington, and menaces the capital on the 12th, but retires on the 13th. The 19th Corps (Emory's), arriving at Fortress Monroe from Louisiana, and the 6th Corps from before Petersburg, sent by Grant under Wright to attack
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
se of Representatives meet for the first time in the new hall of representatives in the south wing of the extension......Dec. 16, 1857 [By an act approved July 2, 1864, the old hall of representatives was set apart as a national statuary hall, and each State invited to furnish in marble or bronze statues of two of its most diessenden appointed......July 1, 1864 Confederates evacuate Marietta, Ga.......July 1, 1864 Act prohibiting the coastwise slavetrade forever approved......July 2, 1864 First session adjourns......July 2, 1864 President suspends the habeas corpus in Kentucky, and proclaims martial law......July 5, 1864 President, unJuly 2, 1864 President suspends the habeas corpus in Kentucky, and proclaims martial law......July 5, 1864 President, under resolution of Congress, appoints the first Thursday of August as a day of humiliation and prayer......July 7, 1864 President by proclamation explains veto, July 2, of a reconstruction bill passed less than an hour before the adjournment of Congress......July 8, 1864 Battle of Monocacy, Md.......July 9, 1864 Repulse of
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Oregon, (search)
Oregon school for deaf-mutes at Salem opened......1870 Legislature rescinds the resolution of 1870, rejecting the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments......1872 Captain Jackson, commissioned to remove the Modocs to a reservation, fights them on Lost River, near Tule Lake......Nov. 29, 1872 First convention of the Oregon State Woman's Suffrage Association held at Portland......February, 1873 Congress grants public lands in Oregon to construct a military road across the State, July 2, 1864; the legislature grants 1,920 acres of this for each mile to be built by the Oregon Central Military Road Company, which builds to the summit of the Cascade Mountains in 1867; the company sells its lands to the Pacific Land Company of San Francisco......1873 Oregon Pioneer Association organized......Oct. 18, 1873 State board of immigration created by law......Oct. 28, 1874 Oregon and Washington Fish Propagating Company incorporated; hatching establishment near Oregon City......Ap