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Thousands of Confederate prisoners arrive in Philadelphia on a single railroad train |
| Business/Industry |
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Thousands of shoemakers go on strike for higher wages in Lynn, Massachusetts |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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Thousands of Union wounded from the Battle of the Wilderness begin to arrive in Philadelphia hospitals |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Thousands see American emigrant ship founder off French coast |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Three fatal railway accidents occur around England on the same day |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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Three new federal army departments are formed |
| US/the World |
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Three shiploads of reinforcements for Garibaldi's campaign in Sicily reach Sardinia |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Three soldiers of the Union Army's XXII Corps are executed for desertion |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Three thousand pounds of gunpowder explodes at a cartridge factory on New York City's East River |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Three Washburn brothers sit in the Thirty-Fourth Congress |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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Three young Union cavalrymen are promoted as brigade commanders, including one named Custer |
| Science/Technology |
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Tied to their docks in the New York's East River, two naval ships begin extensive boiler tests |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Tornado demolishes the railway station in Braceville, Ohio, killing one |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Tornado strikes Putnam and Morgan Counties in west central Indiana |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Tornado strikes the town of Alton, Illinois |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Tornado strikes the town of Carlinville in west central Illinois but no deaths are reported |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Tornadoes in the northwestern Pennsylvania highlands devastate kill seven and injure thirty |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Tornadoes in the Ohio Valley cause massive damage and kill more than one hundred and fifty |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Tornadoes strike Morgan County, Illinois, destroying farmhouses and killing at least eight |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Train crash in upstate New York kills and injures many passengers. |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Train crash outside London kills one of Queen Victoria's doctors and injure many others |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Train derailment in Wisconsin kills ten people and injures many more |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Train derails after hitting a cow near Brooklyn, New York and a fireman is killed |
| Crime/Disasters |
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TransAtlantic steamship from New York strikes a rock four miles from her Irish destination |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Transporting Union cavalry near Mobile, Alabama, a steamer hits a mine and sinks with loss of life |
| Business/Industry |
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Traveller's Insurance Company chartered in Hartford, Connecticut |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Treasury Secretary Dix issues his order to "shoot on the spot" anyone hauling down the national flag |
| US/the World |
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Treaty negotiations successfully conclude the late war between France, Austria, and Piedmont |
| Foreign |
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Treaty of Bayonne between France and Spain sets their international borders |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Treaty of Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation agreed between the United States and Paraguay |
