CHRONOLOGY.

It will be observed that in the following table all regimental and battery notes refer to the First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery:

15th.—U.S.S. Maine destroyed in harbor of Havana.

9th.—Congress appropriates $50,000,000 for national defence.

12th.—U.S.S. Oregon starts from San Francisco on the memorable voyage to the Atlantic coast.

24th.—Spanish torpedo-gunboat flotilla assembles at Cape Verde Islands.

28th.—Congress receives report of naval board of inquiry declaring Maine to have been destroyed by exterior explosion.

9th.—General Lee leaves Havana.

14th.—Flotilla at Cape Verde Islands joined by Infanta Maria Teresa and Cristobal Colon.

15th.—Legislature of Massachusetts appropriates $500,000 for local defence and equipment of troops.

20th.—Cape Verde squadron augmented by Almirante Oquendo and Vizcaya.

21st.—Spanish Government sends passports to Minister Woodford.

22d.—Admiral Sampson sails from Key West to establish Cuban blockade.

23d.—President McKinley calls for one hundred and twenty-five thousand volunteers.

24th.—Spanish Government announces its intention of organizing a fleet of auxiliary cruisers.

Regiment receives orders to hold itself in readiness for service in defenses of Boston Harbor.

25th.—Congress declares war to have existed since 21 April.

Admiral Dewey sails from Hong Kong for Manila.

Orders issued directing regiment to report at Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, on following day.

26th.—Regiment assembles in Boston—ninety-nine per cent. present for duty—passes in review before Governor Wolcott, and at noon reaches its station.

29th.—Spanish fleet, under Admiral Cervera, sails from Cape Verde Islands—destination unknown.

1st.—Destruction of Admiral Montojo's fleet in Manila Bay.

9th.—Regiment mustered into volunteer service of United States by Brevet Lieut.-Col. C. A. Woodruff, Second United States Artillery; muster-in completed at 9.34 A.M.

10th.—Orders received detaching Third Battalion, to report to Colonel Woodruff.

13th.—Reported sighting of Spanish fleet off Nantucket; night alarm at Fort Warren.

18th.—Governor Wolcott visits post, inspects regiment, and presents volunteer commissions to officers.

20th.—General Merritt, commanding Department of the East, relieved by General Frank.

23d.—Orders received assigning Headquarters, First and Second Battalions to stations.

24th.—U.S.S. Oregon reaches coast of Florida.

25th.—President McKinley calls for seventy-five thousand additional volunteers.

First military expedition starts from San Francisco for Manila.

30th.—Admiral Cervera's fleet definitely located and blockaded in harbor of Santiago.

1st.—"G" and "L" Batteries take station at Fort Rodman, New Bedford Harbor.

3d.—U.S.S. Merrimac sunk in harbor of Santiago.

Regimental Headquarters established at Fort Pickering, Salem Harbor.

6th.—Changes of station: "A" Battery to Mining Casemate, Nahant; "C" and "D" Batteries to Fort Pickering; "H" Battery to Fort Sewall, Marblehead Harbor.

7th.—"B" Battery takes station in defenses of Newburyport Harbor; "K" Battery at Stage Fort, Gloucester Harbor.

11th.—Landing of United States Marines at Guantanamo.

12th.—Embarkation of General Shafter's corps at Tampa.

15th.—Admiral Camara's squadron sails from Cadiz.

20th.—General Shafter's expedition lands at Baiquiri.

24th.—Action at Las Guasimas.

28th.—General Merritt's expedition sails for Philippines.

30th.—General Frank, commanding Department of the East, relieved by General Gillespie.

1st-2d.—Actions at El Caney and San Juan Hill.

3d.—Annihilation of Admiral Cervera's fleet off Santiago.

8th.—Admiral Camara's fleet turns back to Cadiz.

"B" Battery changes station from defenses of Newburyport to Port Constitution, Portsmouth Harbor, New Hampshire.

11th.—General Miles arrives at Santiago.

Governor Wolcott requests foreign service for regiment, informing War Department that apprehension no longer is felt for coast-towns of Massachusetts.

17th.—Surrender of Santiago.

25th.—General Miles lands with his expedition in Porto Rico.

"A" Battery changes station from Nahant to Fort Pickering.

26th.—Spain asks terms of peace.

29th.—General Merritt's expedition reaches Manila.

31st.—United States forces at Manila repulse Spanish attack.

12th.—Peace protocol signed; hostilities suspended.

27th.—"B" Battery changes station from Fort Constitution to Fort Pickering.

19th.—Regiment withdrawn from coast-works and assembled in camp at South Framingham.

4th.—General Gillespie, commanding Department of the East, relieved by General Shafter.

5th.—Regiment breaks camp at Framingham, takes transportation for Boston, marches in review before Governor Wolcott, and is furloughed for thirty days.

4th.—Batteries report at home stations from furlough.

14th.—Regiment mustered out of service of United States by Lieut.-Col. E. M. Weaver, U.S.V., and Lieut. J. P. Hains, U.S.A.

10th.—Treaty of peace signed by Commissioners at Paris.

11th.—Proclamation by President McKinley of ratification of treaty officially terminates the war.