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Business/Industry United States Gold Coinage in 1859, by the numbers
Legal/Political United States District Courts in 1859, by the numbers
Business/Industry United States cotton production continues to recover during 1867.
Lawmaking/Litigating United States copyright law for photographs signed into law
Lawmaking/Litigating United States copyright law for photographs passes
Legal/Political United States Circuit Courts in 1859, by the numbers
Legal/Political United States Army reports its strength as 17,036 officers and men in nineteen regiments
Battles/Soldiers Union warship captures Confederate privateer off the Bahamas
Campaigns/Elections Union war hero George Armstrong Custer becomes the head of the Soldiers and Sailors Union.
Battles/Soldiers Union Volunteer troops attack and kill hundreds of Shoshone at Bear River, in present-day Idaho
Battles/Soldiers Union troops take possession of Fort Macon near Beaufort, North Carolina
Battles/Soldiers Union troops suffer a heavy defeat at Ball's Bluff on the Virginia side of the Potomac
Battles/Soldiers Union troops skirmish with Confederate raider John Hunt Morgan's men around Washington, Ohio
Battles/Soldiers Union troops seize and fortify the Relay House on the Baltimore and Washington Railroad in Maryland
Battles/Soldiers Union troops reoccupy Manassas Junction, Virginia, eight months after the defeat at Bull Run
Personal Union troops ransack the plantation of Jefferson Davis on the Mississippi River below Vicksburg
Battles/Soldiers Union troops push back attacking Virginia units around Harpers Ferry near Pritchard's Mill on the Potomac
Battles/Soldiers Union troops occupy Natchez, Mississippi, further ensuring the opening of the Mississippi River
Battles/Soldiers - Union troops land on Morris Island and fail in a dawn attack on Fort Wagner
Battles/Soldiers Union troops land below Port Hudson seeking to make contact with Admiral Farragut's naval force
Battles/Soldiers Union troops defeat Confederate units in a brief skirmish at the Boone County Court House in western Virginia
Battles/Soldiers Union troops defeat Confederate units in a brief skirmish at Blue's Gap in western Virginia
Battles/Soldiers Union troops advancing in darkness on Munson's Hill fire on each other, killing nine and wounding twenty-five
Battles/Soldiers Union telegrapher dies in a Washington DC hospital of wounds from a booby-trap left in Yorktown
Battles/Soldiers - Union spy Elizabeth Van Lew risks her life to shelter escaping Union officers in her Richmond home
Battles/Soldiers Union soldiers publish their own newspaper in the field
Battles/Soldiers - Union soldiers and sailors carry out a daring night raid on Confederate defenses near Island Number Ten
Battles/Soldiers - Union reinforcements prevented from reaching Chancellorsville at Battle of Salem Church
Personal Union officer and Irish Nationalist leader Michael Corcoran is buried in New York City
Battles/Soldiers Union naval units under Commodore Farragut break past Confederate defenses towards New Orleans