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Union naval units occupy Appalachicola, Florida |
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Union naval units bombard remaining Confederate installations along Aquia Creek in northern Virginia |
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Union naval units begin a five day bombardment of Fort Jackson on the Mississippi below New Orleans |
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Union naval landing parties retake Chandeleur Island in Louisiana off the mouth of the Mississippi |
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Union infantrymen finally take Marye's Heights in the Second Battle of Fredericksburg |
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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 gunners carry out a heavy five day bombardment of the Confederate forts defending Charleston |
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Union General Philip Sheridan calls the mayor of New Orleans "a bad man" and recommends his removal. |
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Union General Benjamin Butler declares slaves as "contraband of war" |
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Union garrison at Harpers Ferry burns the Arsenal and withdraws in an overnight march to Pennsylvania |
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Union forces withdraw from the Mississippi state capital of Jackson after inflicting heavy damage |
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Union forces under Ulysses S. Grant occupy Paducah, Kentucky on the Ohio River |
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Union forces under General Burnside occupy the Cumberland Gap |
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Union forces turn back the Confederate invasion of New Mexico at Glorieta Pass |
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Union forces pursue Lee's into Maryland and Stuart's covering Confederates clash with Union cavalry |
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Union forces occupy Pikesville, Kentucky having driven Confederate forces from eastern Kentucky |
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Union forces evacuate Jacksonville, Florida and the Confederacy reoccupies the town |
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Union forces defeat Missouri State Guardsmen outside of Fredericktown in Madison County, Missouri |
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Union forces continue to advance in the Shenandoah Valley and occupy Mount Jackson |
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Union forces break the last Confederate efforts to defend Atlanta at the Battle of Jonesborough |
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Union forces advance on Stafford County, Virginia |
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Union defenders retreat across the Susquehanna burning the Wrightsville Bridge behind them |
Education/Culture |
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Union commander in Charleston, South Carolina, demands a firemen's parade march with a United States flag. |
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Union Colonel James A. Mulligan, hero of the Battle of Lexington, speaks for a Catholic charity in Philadelphia |
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Union cavalry try to break through the Confederate cavalry screen at Aldie in Loudoun County, Virginia |
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Union cavalry General George Custer leads a delegation to present captured battle-flags to the War Department |
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Union cavalry capture the fleeing Confederate President Jefferson Davis and his family south of Macon, Georgia |
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Union cavalry capture sixteen Californians under Daniel Showalter making for Confederate Arizona |
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Union cavalry capture Culpeper, Virginia after a sharp mounted action through the town |
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Union artillery units shell Harpers Ferry in response to the reported abuse of a flag of truce |