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Battles/Soldiers	Tue, December 3, 1861	Union infantry arrives at Ship Island, Mississippi in the first build-up of forces intending to capture New Orleans
Battles/Soldiers	Sun, May 3, 1863	Union infantrymen finally take Marye's Heights in the Second Battle of Fredericksburg
Battles/Soldiers	Mon, September 16, 1861	Union naval landing parties retake Chandeleur Island in Louisiana off the mouth of the Mississippi
Battles/Soldiers	Fri, April 18, 1862	Union naval units begin a five day bombardment of Fort Jackson on the Mississippi below New Orleans
Battles/Soldiers	Sat, March 15, 1862	Union naval units bombard remaining Confederate installations along Aquia Creek in northern Virginia
Battles/Soldiers	Thu, April 3, 1862	Union naval units occupy Appalachicola, Florida
Battles/Soldiers	Thu, April 24, 1862	Union naval units under Commodore Farragut break past Confederate defenses towards New Orleans
Personal	Sun, December 27, 1863	Union officer and Irish Nationalist leader Michael Corcoran is buried in New York City
Battles/Soldiers	Sun, May 3, 1863 - Mon, May 4, 1863	Union reinforcements prevented from reaching Chancellorsville at Battle of Salem Church
Battles/Soldiers	Tue, April 1, 1862 - Wed, April 2, 1862	Union soldiers and sailors carry out a daring night raid on Confederate defenses near Island Number Ten
Battles/Soldiers	Tue, May 21, 1861	Union soldiers publish their own newspaper in the field
Battles/Soldiers	Wed, February 10, 1864 - Thu, February 11, 1864	Union spy Elizabeth Van Lew risks her life to shelter escaping Union officers in her Richmond home
Battles/Soldiers	Mon, May 5, 1862	Union telegrapher dies in a Washington DC hospital of wounds from a booby-trap left in Yorktown
Battles/Soldiers	Sun, September 29, 1861	Union troops advancing in darkness on Munson's Hill fire on each other, killing nine and wounding twenty-five
Battles/Soldiers	Tue, January 7, 1862	Union troops defeat Confederate units in a brief skirmish at Blue's Gap in western Virginia
Battles/Soldiers	Sun, September 1, 1861	Union troops defeat Confederate units in a brief skirmish at the Boone County Court House in western Virginia
Battles/Soldiers	Tue, March 17, 1863	Union troops land below Port Hudson seeking to make contact with Admiral Farragut's naval force
Battles/Soldiers	Fri, July 10, 1863 - Sat, July 11, 1863	Union troops land on Morris Island and fail in a dawn attack on Fort Wagner
Battles/Soldiers	Mon, July 13, 1863	Union troops occupy Natchez, Mississippi, further ensuring the opening of the Mississippi River
Battles/Soldiers	Sun, September 15, 1861	Union troops push back attacking Virginia units around Harpers Ferry near Pritchard's Mill on the Potomac
Personal	Sun, June 7, 1863	Union troops ransack the plantation of Jefferson Davis on the Mississippi River below Vicksburg
Battles/Soldiers	Tue, March 11, 1862	Union troops reoccupy Manassas Junction, Virginia, eight months after the defeat at Bull Run
Battles/Soldiers	Sun, May 5, 1861	Union troops seize and fortify the Relay House on the Baltimore and Washington Railroad in Maryland
Battles/Soldiers	Fri, July 24, 1863	Union troops skirmish with Confederate raider John Hunt Morgan's men around Washington, Ohio
Battles/Soldiers	Mon, October 21, 1861	Union troops suffer a heavy defeat at Ball's Bluff on the Virginia side of the Potomac
Battles/Soldiers	Fri, April 25, 1862	Union troops take possession of Fort Macon near Beaufort, North Carolina
Battles/Soldiers	Thu, January 29, 1863	Union Volunteer troops attack and kill hundreds of Shoshone at Bear River, in present-day Idaho
Campaigns/Elections	Sat, August 4, 1866	Union war hero George Armstrong Custer becomes the head of the Soldiers and Sailors Union.
Battles/Soldiers	Tue, November 12, 1861	Union warship captures Confederate privateer off the Bahamas
Legal/Political	Mon, November 21, 1859	United States Army reports its strength as 17,036 officers and men in nineteen regiments