Emancipation proclamation—The year remarkable for the large number of engagements and formidable character of the operations—Battle of Chancellorsville and advance of Lee into Penn.—His defeat at Gettysburg and return to Va.—Capture of New Orleans—Taking of Vicksburg—Defeat at Chickamauga retrieved by Grant—General results of the Campaign. CHAPTER XXVII. CAMPAIGN OF 1864 670 Struggle of Grant and Lee in Virginia—Sherman’s “March to the Sea”—“Beginning of the end.” CHAPTER XXVIII. CONCLUDING CAMPAIGN 675 General discouragement in the South—Capture of Seaboard cities—Re-inauguration of the President—Fall of Petersburg and retreat of Lee—Close of the War—Assassination of Lincoln. CHAPTER XXIX. HISTORY FROM 1865 TO 1875 680 Opposed reconstruction policy of Congress and President Johnson—Financial condition—Patrons of Husbandry—Election and re-election of Gen. Grant. CHAPTER XXX. PARLIAMENTARY RULES 698 CHAPTER XXXI. STATISTICS OF THE WORLD 721 SUPPLEMENT. LEGAL FORMS—BY JUDGE J. C. POWER, OF THE FIRST DISTRICT OF IOWA 725 Legal form of Will—Statement of Testator—Disposition of Property—Appointment of Executors—Statement of Witnesses—Circumstances of Signature—Necessity of two Witnesses—Articles of Copartnership—Statement of Agreement—Conditions Mutually agreed to—Signature—Agreement to continue Copartnership—Agreement to dissolve Copartnership—Power of Attorney—How signed and acknowledged—Form of Submission to Arbitration—Form of Award of Arbitrators—General Form of Agreement—Agreement for sale of personal property—Agreement for sale of Real Estate—How executed and acknowledged—Form of Lease—Form of Warranty Deed—Form of acknowledgement of execution of Deed—Witnesses to signature—Mortgage Deed—Negotiable Note—Non negotiable Note—Note transferable by delivery—Due bill—Receipt—What statements required in Receipt. THE FOOTPRINTS OF TIME. PART FIRST. CHAPTER I. SECTION I. THE DAWN OF HISTORY.