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Battles/Soldiers	Fri, March 31, 1865	At Dinwiddie Courthouse, Horatio Collins King performs the heroics for which he will later receive a Medal of Honor
Education/Culture	Sat, April 20, 1861	At Dickinson College, the Junior and Senior classes request the end of term be brought forward
Education/Culture	Thu, April 25, 1861	At Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, students are leaving for home in large numbers
Battles/Soldiers	Thu, April 24, 1862	At dawn, Union artillery begins a heavy bombardment of Fort Macon near Beaufort, North Carolina
Battles/Soldiers	Wed, July 1, 1863	At dawn, the last Confederate occupiers of Carlisle, Pennsylvania leave the town
Battles/Soldiers	Sun, April 9, 1865	At dawn, the Army of Northern Virginia makes one last effort to break out the Union encirclement
Battles/Soldiers	Mon, March 3, 1862	At Columbus, Kentucky, Union forces take possession of "the Gibraltar of the West"
Battles/Soldiers	Tue, February 25, 1862	At Columbus, Kentucky, Confederate forces begin the abandonment of "the Gibraltar of the West"
Crime/Disasters	Tue, April 3, 1866	At Colón in the Panama, an exploding British cargo of nitro-glycerin devastates the port and kills fifty
Battles/Soldiers	Thu, May 4, 1865	At Citronelle, Alabama, Confederate General Richard Taylor surrenders his forces of the Department of Alabama
US/the World	Thu, September 1, 1864 - Wed, September 7, 1864	At Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island, provincial delegates meet to discuss possible Canadian unity
Crime/Disasters	Wed, September 6, 1865	At Camp Chase in Ohio, two Union deserters who murdered the assistant Provost Marshal of the Seventeenth District are executed
Battles/Soldiers	Sat, October 5, 1867	At Bombay, the first British troops leave India for Africa to carry out the invasion of Abyssinia.
Battles/Soldiers	Fri, February 28, 1862	At Beaufort, North Carolina, Confederate commerce raider Nashville returns home
US/the World	Fri, June 15, 1860 - Sat, June 16, 1860	At Baden in Germany, Emperor Napoleon III meets with the leaders of several German states
Crime/Disasters	Fri, December 28, 1860	At Atchison, the Kansas Relief Committee reports on its efforts to aid the drought-stricken territory
Personal	Wed, April 26, 1865	At Albany, thousands of citizens file past Abraham Lincoln's coffin in the State Capitol
Science/Technology	Wed, October 4, 1865	At a southern England naval base, American inventors demonstrate their "torpedoes" to the Royal Navy
Battles/Soldiers	Thu, May 12, 1864	At a private house in Richmond, Confederate cavalry commander General J.E.B. Stuart dies of his wounds
Campaigns/Elections	Mon, July 2, 1860	At a mass meeting in Tammany Hall, New York Democrats unite behind Stephen Douglas
Campaigns/Elections	Mon, July 16, 1860	At a Lincoln rally in New York City, Horace Greeley woos former Whig and American Party voters
Business/Industry	Tue, September 19, 1865	At a great celebration in Cedar Falls, ground is broken on the ambitious Iowa Central Railraod
Education/Culture	Mon, November 20, 1865	At a gala reception in New York City, thousands greet General Ulysses S. Grant and his family
Battles/Soldiers	Wed, June 17, 1863	At "Fort Fizzle" in Holmes County, Ohio, federal troops end active draft resistance
Crime/Disasters	Thu, May 10, 1849	Astor Place Riot in New York City
Crime/Disasters	Mon, April 17, 1865	Assassination conspirator Samuel Arnold is arrested in the morning at Fortress Monroe in Virginia
US/the World	Thu, January 14, 1858	Assassination attempt on the life of Emperor Napoleon III fails in Paris
Cultural	Thu, January 1, 1857	Ashmun Institute opens in Chester County, Pennsylvania
Religion/Philosophy	Wed, February 10, 1864	Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, is celebrated across the United States
Religion/Philosophy	Wed, February 14, 1866	Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent