Place Unit Type
Continent
Date Type
Off the Indonesian coast, the Alabama captures and burns an American merchant ship Battles/Soldiers
Rescuers in New Guinea discover the gruesome fate of hundreds of shipwrecked passengers at the hands of cannibals Crime/Disasters
U.S.S. Hartford returns home from Asia with four officers who had declared for the Confederacy Battles/Soldiers
Name Type
Afghanistan Nation
Burma Nation
Cambodia Nation
China Nation
Cochin China (Vietnam) Nation
India Region
Israel Nation
Japan Nation
Korea Nation
Laos Nation
Middle East Region
Persia (Iran) Nation
Philippine Islands Region
Thailand Nation
Turkey Nation
Date Title
Spencer Fullerton Baird, Report of the Curator of the Musuem, July 11, 1848
New York Times, “Health of New Orleans,” November 2, 1858
New Orleans (LA) Picayune, “Russia and America,” March 20, 1859
New York Herald, “The Crisis and Its Solution,” December 10, 1860
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