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10/21/1861 |
Future Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes survives a near-fatal wound at Ball's Bluff |
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06/17/1863 |
In Virginia, future founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra left for dead on the battlefield |
Battles/Soldiers |
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04/06/1862 |
Irving Carson, Chicago Tribune war correspondent, is killed on the first day of the Battle of Shiloh |
Battles/Soldiers |
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06/23/1863 |
L. Walter Buckingham, war reporter for the New York Herald, is killed in guerrilla attack in Virginia |
Battles/Soldiers |
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10/21/1861 |
Union troops suffer a heavy defeat at Ball's Bluff on the Virginia side of the Potomac |
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