Birthdays

William Joshua Allen
Turns 34 on this date

Smith Dykins Atkins
Turns 27 on this date

Francis Smith Findlay
Turns 29 on this date

Clara Louise Kellogg
Turns 21 on this date

Theodore Myers Reily
Turns 21 on this date

Martin Thomas Rohrer
Turns 36 on this date

Amos Slaymaker
Turns 44 on this date

Richard Wigginton Thompson
Turns 54 on this date
Events
Personal | Dickinson College 1860 graduate Captain John Henry Grabill, CSA, is captured at Brandy Station | 06/09/1863 |
US/the World | Dost Mohammed Khan, Amir of Afghanistan, dies in Herat | 06/09/1863 |
Battles/Soldiers | In Louisiana, the Siege of Port Hudson continues |
05/28/1863 to 06/13/1863 |
Battles/Soldiers | In Mississippi, the Siege of Vicksburg continues |
05/26/1863 to 07/03/1863 |
Battles/Soldiers | In Tennessee, daring Confederate spy mission fails and two are tried and hanged |
06/08/1863 to 06/09/1863 |
Crime/Disasters | Powder magazine explosion at Fort Lyon in Virginia kills and injures dozens of New York artillerymen | 06/09/1863 |
Education/Culture | The first public national billiards championship is held in New York City's Irving Hall |
06/01/1863 to 06/11/1863 |
Lawmaking/Litigating | The War Department bars the enlistment of men under eighteen without parental approval | 06/09/1863 |
Battles/Soldiers | The War Department sets up two new Army Departments for the defense of Pennsylvania | 06/09/1863 |
Pages
Documents
Executive record | Petition from the Shipowners of Liverpool, England to Earl Russell, Foreign Secretary | 06/09/1863 |
Book | Recollection by Ulysses S. Grant, Siege of Vicksburg, May – July 4, 1863 |
05/25/1863 to 07/04/1863 |