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Battle of Petersburg, June 15-18, 1864 |
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Battle of Olustee, February 20, 1864 |
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Battle of North Anna, May 23- May 26, 1864 |
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Battle of New Market, May 15, 1864 |
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Battle of Nashville, December 15-16, 1864 |
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Battle of Monocacy, July 9, 1864 |
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Battle of Marietta, June 9-July 3, 1864 |
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Battle of Jenkins' Ferry |
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Battle of Gettysburg |
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Battle of Gaines' Mill |
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Battle of Fredericksburg |
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Battle of Fort Stevens |
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Battle of Fort Pillow |
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Battle of Cynthiana, June 11-12, 1864 |
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Battle of Cold Harbor |
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Battle of Arkansas Post |
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Battle of Antietam |
Personal |
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Baron Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the Modern Olympic Games is born in Paris |
Business/Industry |
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Bargains are the order of the day as the Navy sells thirty vessels by auction at the Brooklyn Navy-Yard |
Business/Industry |
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Banks in New York City, Boston, and Philadelphia suspend payment in gold and silver |
Crime/Disasters |
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Bangor, Maine based brig capsizes in a storm off Cape Cod and only one of seven aboard survive |
Science/Technology |
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Baltimore's first streetcar goes into operation on Broadway in the city |
Science/Technology |
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Baltimore's first regular streetcar service goes into operation |
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Baltimore rioters mount a deadly attack on the Sixth Massachusetts in the streets of the city |
Campaigns/Elections |
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Baltimore holds the first elections under the new Maryland constitution |
Science/Technology |
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Baltimore gets its first steam fire engine |
Education/Culture |
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Baltimore Excelsiors defeat Washington Potomacs in first intercity baseball game outside New York City |
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Baltimore barricades itself against the Confederate advance |
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Baggage master killed in the wreck of a Michigan Central passenger train near Chicago |
Science/Technology |
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B. Tyler Henry receives a patent for his lever-action, sixteen shot repeating rifle |