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MEMORABLE EVENTS.
MAY 3: President Lincoln calls for sixty thousand Volunteers for the Army and Navy, for three years. --5: General Butler cuts his way through to Washington. --10: Major General Robert E. Lee assumes command of the Rebel forces in Virgina. --13: Queen Victoria issues a Proclamation of Neutrality. -- 18: Arkansas secedes. -- 24: Southern mails stopped. -- 27: Blockade put in force. JUNE 3: Senator Douglas died. -- 10: Battle of Big Bethel. JULY 9: Major General Fremont placed in command of the Western Department. -- 21: Battle of Bull Run. -- 22: Major General McClellan placed in command of the Army of the Potomac. AUGUST 7: Hampton, Va., burned by the Rebels. -- 10: Battle of Wilson's Creek. -- 15: Jefferson Davis orders all Northern men to leave the South in forty days. -- 28: Capture of the Fort Hatteras. SEPTEMBER 21: John C. Breckinridge, late Vice-President of the U.S., openly joined the Rebels. --24: Count de Paris and Duc de Chartres enter the U.S. service as aids to General McClellan. OCTOBER 21: Battle of Edwards Ferry. -- 29: Great Naval expedition under Commodore Dupont; General T. W. Sherman, in command of land forces, leaves Fortress Monroe. NOVEMBER 1: Lieutenant General Scott resigns the command-in-chief of the Union armies, and General McClellan appointed in his place. -- 15: Mason and Slidell captured from the Trent. -- 24: Mason and Slidell placed in Fort Warren. -- 29: Ship Island, Miss., occupied by U.S. troops. DECEMBER 17: Battle of Mumfordville, Ky. -- 18: Battle of Martinsburg. -- 27: Mason and Slidell surrendered to the British Minister.
1862. JANUARY 1: Mason and Slidell released from Fort Warren. GOLD, 101. -- 9: GOLD, 105. -- 12: Burnside's expedition sailed from Fortress Monroe. -- 13: Simon Cameron, Secretary of War, resigned; Edwin M. Stanton appointed. -- 17: GOLD, 101. -- 19: Battle of Mill Springs, Ky. GOLD, 102. -- 31: GOLD, 103. Average of gold in January, 103. FEBRUARY 6: Fort Henry captured. GOLD, 103. -- 8: Battle of Roanoke Island. -- 16: Fort Donelson captured. GOLD, 104. -- 22: Jeff. Davis re-inaugurated President of the C. S. A., at Richmond. GOLD, 103. -- 28: GOLD, 102. Average rate of gold in February, 103. MARCH 5: Beauregard takes command of the army of the Mississippi. -- 9: Engagement between the Monitor and