| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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The U.S. Congress funds "separate but equal" schools for black children in the District of Columbia |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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The U.S. Congress passes the Wade-Davis Bill that sets radical requirements for Reconstruction |
| Slavery/Abolition |
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The U.S. Congress reverses the Gott Resolution to ban slavery in the District of Columbia |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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The U.S. Government counts only eighteen veterans remaining from the Revolutionary War |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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The U.S. Navy seizes a Confederate raider, now a British civilian vessel, off the coast of Portugal |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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The U.S. Navy sinks a second "stone fleet" to block another channel in Charleston Harbor |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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The U.S. Navy's "Stone Fleet" is deliberately sunk in the channels of Charleston Harbor |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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The U.S. Navy's Admiral Louis Goldsborough sails to take command of the European Squadron |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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The U.S. Post Office in Virginia City, Nevada is established |
| Business/Industry |
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The U.S. Post Office reports another record deficit for the year ending June 30, 1859 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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The U.S. Senate fails to override President Johnson's veto of the Colorado Statehood Bill. |
| Legal/Political |
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The U.S. Senate imprisons Thaddeus Hyatt for failure to appear before Harpers Ferry Committee |
| Legal/Political |
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The U.S. Senate orders arrest of Thaddeus Hyatt for failure to appear before Harpers Ferry Committee |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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The U.S. Senate organizes the impeachment trial of U.S. District Judge West H. Humphreys |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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The U.S. Senate passes its version of the Homestead Bill |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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The U.S. Senate passes the initial version of the "Tenure of Office Act" on a vote of twenty-nine for and nine against. |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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The U.S. Senate trial of U.S. District Judge West H. Humphreys of Tennessee ends with his removal |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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The U.S. Senate votes 26-14 to confirm Simon Cameron as the new ambassador to Russia |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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The U.S. Senate votes 38-1 to confirm Noah Haynes Swayne of Ohio to the U.S. Supreme Court |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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The U.S. Senate votes to ban exclusion from testifying in United States courts on grounds of race |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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The U.S. Senate votes to expel Indiana Senator Jesse Bright as a Southern sympathizer |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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The U.S. Senate, sitting in extraordinary session, confirms all of President Lincoln's cabinet choices |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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The U.S. Supreme Court decides "Ex Parte Milligan" in favor of the plaintiffs and orders them released |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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The U.S. Supreme Court rejects Georgia's challenge to the Military Reconstruction Acts. |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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The U.S. Supreme Court rejects Mississippi's challenge to the Military Reconstruction Acts. |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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The U.S.S. Carondelet makes her daring night run past the Confederate blockade on the Mississippi |
| Slavery/Abolition |
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The U.S.S. Niagara sails from Charleston for Liberia carrying the Africans freed from the slave ship Echo |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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The U.S.S. Niagara visits Dover on the English coast to drop off a captured British crew |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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The U.S.S. Rhode Island arrives in Philadelphia with Confederate privateer prisoners |
| US/the World |
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The U.S.S. Tuscarora moors in Southampton Water, a mile from the Confederate commerce Nashville |
