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Battles/Soldiers Three new federal army departments are formed
Crime/Disasters Three fatal railway accidents occur around England on the same day
Crime/Disasters Thousands see American emigrant ship founder off French coast
Battles/Soldiers Thousands of Union wounded from the Battle of the Wilderness begin to arrive in Philadelphia hospitals
Business/Industry Thousands of shoemakers go on strike for higher wages in Lynn, Massachusetts
Battles/Soldiers Thousands of Confederate prisoners arrive in Philadelphia on a single railroad train
Battles/Soldiers Thousands of cavalrymen clash at Brandy Station, Virginia, in the largest cavalry battle of the war
Slavery/Abolition Thousands of African-American citizens in Washington D.C. celebrate the anniversary of their emancipation
Personal Thomas Wildey, founder of the Order of Odd Fellows in the United States, dies at his home in Baltimore
Legal/Political - Thomas Langrell Harris serves in the United States House of Representatives
Personal Thomas Langrell Harris is born in Norwich, Connecticut
Personal Thomas Jefferson Rusk, U.S. Senator from Texas, commits suicide at his home in Nacogdoches
Campaigns/Elections Thomas H. Ford elected as Printer of the House of Representatives in the eighteenth ballot
Personal Thomas De Quincey, the English author and opium eater, dies in Edinburgh
Personal Thomas Bulfinch, the Boston banker who wrote "Bulfinch's Mythology" in his spare time, dies at his home in Massachusetts.
Personal Thomas Babington Macaulay, British statesman and historian, dies in London
Personal Thomas B. Cuming, twice governor of Nebraska Territory, dies in office aged thirty.
Personal Thirty-three year old war artist W.T. Crane dies in Washington D.C. of a disease of the throat
Lawmaking/Litigating Thirty-ninth ballot in the election for Speaker sees John Sherman fall behind for the first time
Crime/Disasters Thirty-five people drown when Canadian mail steamer strikes ice and sinks off the coast of Labrador
Crime/Disasters Thirty-eight passengers and crew drown when their ship runs aground in an Irish gale.
Crime/Disasters Thirteen prisoners escape from the Monroe County Jail in Rochester, New York
Crime/Disasters Thirteen men die in collapse during demolition of a Catholic church in Cincinnati
Legal/Political - Third National Women's Rights Convention held in Syracuse
Crime/Disasters Thieves rob a New Haven Railway train express car as it rolls through the night to Boston
Personal Theophilus Lyle Dickey marries Juliet Evans
Personal Theophilus Lyle Dickey dies in Atlantic City, New Jersey
Personal Theophilus Lyle Dickey born in Bourbon County, Kentucky
Personal Theodore Roosevelt is born in New York City
Personal Theodore Parker, famous abolitionist and member of the "Secret Six," dies in Florence, Italy