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Battles/Soldiers	Thu, April 3, 1862	Union naval units occupy Appalachicola, Florida
Battles/Soldiers	Sat, March 15, 1862	Union naval units bombard remaining Confederate installations along Aquia Creek in northern Virginia
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	Mon, September 16, 1861	Union naval landing parties retake Chandeleur Island in Louisiana off the mouth of the Mississippi
Battles/Soldiers	Sun, May 3, 1863	Union infantrymen finally take Marye's Heights in the Second Battle of Fredericksburg
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	Mon, August 17, 1863 - Fri, August 21, 1863	Union gunners carry out a heavy five day bombardment of the Confederate forts defending Charleston
Battles/Soldiers	Thu, August 2, 1866	Union General Philip Sheridan calls the mayor of New Orleans "a bad man" and recommends his removal.
Battles/Soldiers	Sun, May 26, 1861	Union General Benjamin Butler declares slaves as "contraband of war"
Battles/Soldiers	Thu, April 18, 1861 - Fri, April 19, 1861	Union garrison at Harpers Ferry burns the Arsenal and withdraws in an overnight march to Pennsylvania
Battles/Soldiers	Sat, May 16, 1863	Union forces withdraw from the Mississippi state capital of Jackson after inflicting heavy damage
Battles/Soldiers	Fri, September 6, 1861	Union forces under Ulysses S. Grant occupy Paducah, Kentucky on the Ohio River
Battles/Soldiers	Wed, September 9, 1863	Union forces under General Burnside occupy the Cumberland Gap
Battles/Soldiers	Fri, March 28, 1862	Union forces turn back the Confederate invasion of New Mexico at Glorieta Pass
Battles/Soldiers	Wed, July 8, 1863 - Thu, July 9, 1863	Union forces pursue Lee's into Maryland and Stuart's covering Confederates clash with Union cavalry
Battles/Soldiers	Sat, November 9, 1861	Union forces occupy Pikesville, Kentucky having driven Confederate forces from eastern Kentucky
Battles/Soldiers	Tue, April 8, 1862 - Wed, April 9, 1862	Union forces evacuate Jacksonville, Florida and the Confederacy reoccupies the town
Battles/Soldiers	Mon, October 21, 1861	Union forces defeat Missouri State Guardsmen outside of Fredericktown in Madison County, Missouri
Battles/Soldiers	Thu, April 17, 1862	Union forces continue to advance in the Shenandoah Valley and occupy Mount Jackson
Battles/Soldiers	Wed, August 31, 1864 - Thu, September 1, 1864	Union forces break the last Confederate efforts to defend Atlanta at the Battle of Jonesborough
Battles/Soldiers	Fri, April 18, 1862	Union forces advance on Stafford County, Virginia
Battles/Soldiers	Sun, June 28, 1863	Union defenders retreat across the Susquehanna burning the Wrightsville Bridge behind them
Education/Culture	Sat, April 27, 1867	Union commander in Charleston, South Carolina, demands a firemen's parade march with a United States flag.
Education/Culture	Fri, December 27, 1861	Union Colonel James A. Mulligan, hero of the Battle of Lexington, speaks for a Catholic charity in Philadelphia
Battles/Soldiers	Wed, June 17, 1863	Union cavalry try to break through the Confederate cavalry screen at Aldie in Loudoun County, Virginia
Battles/Soldiers	Fri, October 28, 1864	Union cavalry General George Custer leads a delegation to present captured battle-flags to the War Department
Lawmaking/Litigating	Wed, May 10, 1865	Union cavalry capture the fleeing Confederate President Jefferson Davis and his family south of Macon, Georgia
Battles/Soldiers	Fri, November 29, 1861	Union cavalry capture sixteen Californians under Daniel Showalter making for Confederate Arizona
Battles/Soldiers	Sun, September 13, 1863	Union cavalry capture Culpeper, Virginia after a sharp mounted action through the town
Battles/Soldiers	Fri, February 7, 1862	Union artillery units shell Harpers Ferry in response to the reported abuse of a flag of truce