Events

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Battles/Soldiers 07/05/1860 Colonel William Harney turns over command of the Department of Oregon after being ordered home
Battles/Soldiers 07/09/1860 Secretary of War Floyd orders operations against the Navajo
Battles/Soldiers 07/15/1860 In Nevada, the Pyramid Lake War comes to an official end as regular troops withdraw
Battles/Soldiers 07/20/1860 In Nevada, following the Pyramid Lake War, regular troops start a permanent fort on the Carson River
Battles/Soldiers 07/17/1860 In China, American adventurer Frederick Ward and his men capture fortress of Sung-Chiang from Taiping rebels
Battles/Soldiers 03/05/1864 In Union Square in New York City, the 20th U. S. C. T. receives its colors and departs for New Orleans
Battles/Soldiers 01/01/1863 At Port Royal, South Carolina, the 1st South Carolina Colored Infantry receives its regimental colors
Battles/Soldiers 07/23/1860 U.S. Infantry and Comanche clash at Hatch's Ranch in New Mexico
Battles/Soldiers 06/05/1861 John Cuddy enlists with the 36th Pennsylvania Infantry
Battles/Soldiers 09/29/1864 Private John Taylor Cuddy dies in the Florence Military Prison in South Carolina
Battles/Soldiers 05/05/1864—05/07/1864 Battle of the Wilderness
Battles/Soldiers 07/21/1861—07/22/1861 The first pitched battle of the war between armies results in a Union disaster at Bull Run
Battles/Soldiers 10/21/1861 Union troops suffer a heavy defeat at Ball's Bluff on the Virginia side of the Potomac
Battles/Soldiers 08/10/1861 At Wilson's Creek in Missouri, a bold Union attack is thrown back and General Nathaniel Lyon killed
Battles/Soldiers 11/04/1861—11/07/1861 In South Carolina, the U.S. South Atlantic Blockading Squadron takes Port Royal by naval bombardment
Battles/Soldiers 04/06/1862 Massed Confederate forces attack the Union's Army of the Tennessee at Pittsburg Landing
Battles/Soldiers 03/06/1862—03/08/1862 In northwest Arkansas, Union forces win a fierce three-day battle at Pea Ridge, around Elkhorn Tavern
Battles/Soldiers 05/25/1862 Stonewall Jackson wins a major victory at Winchester and drives Union forces back into Maryland
Battles/Soldiers 06/09/1863 Thousands of cavalrymen clash at Brandy Station, Virginia, in the largest cavalry battle of the war
Battles/Soldiers 05/21/1863—05/22/1863 In Louisiana, Union forces advance to surround the Mississippi River fortress at Port Hudson