| Cultural |
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Washington's Birthday celebrated around the country and in London and Paris |
| Cultural |
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Washington society hosts a ball in honor of Lord Napier, the retiring British Ambassador |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Washington pays Governor Pickens what he is owed, from the newly seized Charleston Sub-Treasury |
| Personal |
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Washington Irving dies at his home in Tarrytown, New York |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Washington D.C. suspends the draft in the riot-stricken city of New York |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Warriors of the Southern Ute tribe ambush mail coach in Utah, kill two |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Warrant issued for arrest of the New York City Postmaster after a $155,500 embezzlement discovered |
| Crime/Disasters |
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War souvenir kills two young men in a Camden, New Jersey hotel |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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War Department sets generous cash bounties for veterans who reenlist in the Union Army |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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War Department renames the forts defending Washington DC to honor senior officers killed in the war |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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War Department figures indicate that only eleven thousand volunteers remain from its vast Civil War army. |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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War Department figures indicate only 23,294 thousand volunteers remain from its vast Civil War army. |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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War Democrat John Brough nominated for Unionist Governor of Ohio to face Vallandigham |
| Education/Culture |
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Walter Camp born in New Britain, Connecticut |
| Personal |
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W.K. Kellogg born in Battle Creek, Michigan |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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W.H. Seward arrives home in Auburn, New York after his Midwestern electioneering tour |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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Volunteer Philadelphia Artillery battery, full of distinguished Philadelphians, goes into action at Carlisle |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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Volunteer Generals Butler and Dix end their Civil War military service |
| Education/Culture |
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Visitors and townsfolk serenade President Lincoln on a warm and clear Gettysburg evening |
| US/the World |
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Visiting Japanese diplomats tour the Washington Naval Yard |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Virginians elect delegates to their secession convention |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Virginia's "Alexandria" legislature moves back to Richmond for its final session |
| Women/Families |
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Virginia working women demonstrate and then precipitate a "Bread Riot"in the Confederate capital |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Virginia State legislature finishes its 1859-1860 session |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Virginia Republican arrested for circulating anti-southern literature |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Virginia rejects South Carolina's call for a convention of southern states |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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Virginia regiments surround, defeat, and scatter the Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry at Cross Lanes, Virginia |
| Personal |
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Virginia executes John Brown |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Virginia executes Harpers Ferry raiders Albert Hazlett and Aaron Dwight Stevens |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Virginia Democrats urge participation in the proposed convention of southern states |
