Events

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Business/Industry 02/03/1859 United States Gold Coinage in 1859, by the numbers
Legal/Political 01/19/1859 United States District Courts in 1859, by the numbers
Lawmaking/Litigating 03/03/1861 United States copyright law for photographs signed into law
Lawmaking/Litigating 03/02/1861 United States copyright law for photographs passes
Legal/Political 01/18/1859 United States Circuit Courts in 1859, by the numbers
Legal/Political 11/21/1859 United States Army reports its strength as 17,036 officers and men in nineteen regiments
Battles/Soldiers 11/12/1861 Union warship captures Confederate privateer off the Bahamas
Battles/Soldiers 04/25/1862 Union troops take possession of Fort Macon near Beaufort, North Carolina
Battles/Soldiers 10/21/1861 Union troops suffer a heavy defeat at Ball's Bluff on the Virginia side of the Potomac
Battles/Soldiers 05/05/1861 Union troops seize and fortify the Relay House on the Baltimore and Washington Railroad in Maryland
Battles/Soldiers 03/11/1862 Union troops reoccupy Manassas Junction, Virginia, eight months after the defeat at Bull Run
Personal 06/07/1863 Union troops ransack the plantation of Jefferson Davis on the Mississippi River below Vicksburg
Battles/Soldiers 09/15/1861 Union troops push back attacking Virginia units around Harpers Ferry near Pritchard's Mill on the Potomac
Battles/Soldiers 09/01/1861 Union troops defeat Confederate units in a brief skirmish at the Boone County Court House in western Virginia
Battles/Soldiers 01/07/1862 Union troops defeat Confederate units in a brief skirmish at Blue's Gap in western Virginia
Battles/Soldiers 09/29/1861 Union troops advancing in darkness on Munson's Hill fire on each other, killing nine and wounding twenty-five
Battles/Soldiers 05/05/1862 Union telegrapher dies in a Washington DC hospital of wounds from a booby-trap left in Yorktown
Battles/Soldiers 05/21/1861 Union soldiers publish their own newspaper in the field
Battles/Soldiers 04/01/1862—04/02/1862 Union soldiers and sailors carry out a daring night raid on Confederate defenses near Island Number Ten
Battles/Soldiers 05/03/1863—05/04/1863 Union reinforcements prevented from reaching Chancellorsville at Battle of Salem Church