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Foreign Underwater telegraph line across the Irish Sea completed
Science/Technology Underwater telegraph line down the Red Sea from Suez to Aden is completed
Business/Industry Undetered by heavy snow, women shoe worker strikers parade in Lynn, Massachusetts
Crime/Disasters Unindentified white men murder scores of Wiyot Indians in northern California
Battles/Soldiers Union and Confederate armies collide near Chancellorsville in Spotsylvania County, Virginia
Campaigns/Elections Union Army veteran Walter Harriman wins the New Hampshire governorship for the Republicans.
Battles/Soldiers Union artillery units shell Harpers Ferry in response to the reported abuse of a flag of truce
Battles/Soldiers Union cavalry capture Culpeper, Virginia after a sharp mounted action through the town
Battles/Soldiers Union cavalry capture sixteen Californians under Daniel Showalter making for Confederate Arizona
Lawmaking/Litigating Union cavalry capture the fleeing Confederate President Jefferson Davis and his family south of Macon, Georgia
Battles/Soldiers Union cavalry General George Custer leads a delegation to present captured battle-flags to the War Department
Battles/Soldiers Union cavalry try to break through the Confederate cavalry screen at Aldie in Loudoun County, Virginia
Education/Culture Union Colonel James A. Mulligan, hero of the Battle of Lexington, speaks for a Catholic charity in Philadelphia
Education/Culture Union commander in Charleston, South Carolina, demands a firemen's parade march with a United States flag.
Battles/Soldiers Union defenders retreat across the Susquehanna burning the Wrightsville Bridge behind them
Battles/Soldiers Union forces advance on Stafford County, Virginia
Battles/Soldiers - Union forces break the last Confederate efforts to defend Atlanta at the Battle of Jonesborough
Battles/Soldiers Union forces continue to advance in the Shenandoah Valley and occupy Mount Jackson
Battles/Soldiers Union forces defeat Missouri State Guardsmen outside of Fredericktown in Madison County, Missouri
Battles/Soldiers - Union forces evacuate Jacksonville, Florida and the Confederacy reoccupies the town
Battles/Soldiers Union forces occupy Pikesville, Kentucky having driven Confederate forces from eastern Kentucky
Battles/Soldiers - Union forces pursue Lee's into Maryland and Stuart's covering Confederates clash with Union cavalry
Battles/Soldiers Union forces turn back the Confederate invasion of New Mexico at Glorieta Pass
Battles/Soldiers Union forces under General Burnside occupy the Cumberland Gap
Battles/Soldiers Union forces under Ulysses S. Grant occupy Paducah, Kentucky on the Ohio River
Battles/Soldiers Union forces withdraw from the Mississippi state capital of Jackson after inflicting heavy damage
Battles/Soldiers - Union garrison at Harpers Ferry burns the Arsenal and withdraws in an overnight march to Pennsylvania
Battles/Soldiers Union General Benjamin Butler declares slaves as "contraband of war"
Battles/Soldiers Union General Philip Sheridan calls the mayor of New Orleans "a bad man" and recommends his removal.
Battles/Soldiers - Union gunners carry out a heavy five day bombardment of the Confederate forts defending Charleston