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Union infantry arrives at Ship Island, Mississippi in the first build-up of forces intending to capture New Orleans |
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Union infantrymen finally take Marye's Heights in the Second Battle of Fredericksburg |
Battles/Soldiers |
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Union naval landing parties retake Chandeleur Island in Louisiana off the mouth of the Mississippi |
Battles/Soldiers |
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Union naval units begin a five day bombardment of Fort Jackson on the Mississippi below New Orleans |
Battles/Soldiers |
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Union naval units bombard remaining Confederate installations along Aquia Creek in northern Virginia |
Battles/Soldiers |
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Union naval units occupy Appalachicola, Florida |
Battles/Soldiers |
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Union naval units under Commodore Farragut break past Confederate defenses towards New Orleans |
Personal |
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Union officer and Irish Nationalist leader Michael Corcoran is buried in New York City |
Battles/Soldiers |
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Union reinforcements prevented from reaching Chancellorsville at Battle of Salem Church |
Battles/Soldiers |
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Union soldiers and sailors carry out a daring night raid on Confederate defenses near Island Number Ten |
Battles/Soldiers |
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Union soldiers publish their own newspaper in the field |
Battles/Soldiers |
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Union spy Elizabeth Van Lew risks her life to shelter escaping Union officers in her Richmond home |
Battles/Soldiers |
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Union telegrapher dies in a Washington DC hospital of wounds from a booby-trap left in Yorktown |
Battles/Soldiers |
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Union troops advancing in darkness on Munson's Hill fire on each other, killing nine and wounding twenty-five |
Battles/Soldiers |
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Union troops defeat Confederate units in a brief skirmish at Blue's Gap in western Virginia |
Battles/Soldiers |
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Union troops defeat Confederate units in a brief skirmish at the Boone County Court House in western Virginia |
Battles/Soldiers |
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Union troops land below Port Hudson seeking to make contact with Admiral Farragut's naval force |
Battles/Soldiers |
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Union troops land on Morris Island and fail in a dawn attack on Fort Wagner |
Battles/Soldiers |
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Union troops occupy Natchez, Mississippi, further ensuring the opening of the Mississippi River |
Battles/Soldiers |
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Union troops push back attacking Virginia units around Harpers Ferry near Pritchard's Mill on the Potomac |
Personal |
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Union troops ransack the plantation of Jefferson Davis on the Mississippi River below Vicksburg |
Battles/Soldiers |
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Union troops reoccupy Manassas Junction, Virginia, eight months after the defeat at Bull Run |
Battles/Soldiers |
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Union troops seize and fortify the Relay House on the Baltimore and Washington Railroad in Maryland |
Battles/Soldiers |
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Union troops skirmish with Confederate raider John Hunt Morgan's men around Washington, Ohio |
Battles/Soldiers |
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Union troops suffer a heavy defeat at Ball's Bluff on the Virginia side of the Potomac |
Battles/Soldiers |
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Union troops take possession of Fort Macon near Beaufort, North Carolina |
Battles/Soldiers |
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Union Volunteer troops attack and kill hundreds of Shoshone at Bear River, in present-day Idaho |
Campaigns/Elections |
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Union war hero George Armstrong Custer becomes the head of the Soldiers and Sailors Union. |
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Union warship captures Confederate privateer off the Bahamas |
Legal/Political |
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United States Army reports its strength as 17,036 officers and men in nineteen regiments |