Events

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Battles/Soldiers U.S. Navy warships demand the surrender of Galveston, Texas
Crime/Disasters - U.S. Navy transport with new Department of the South commander aboard wrecked in North Carolina
Lawmaking/Litigating U.S. Navy Secretary Gideon Welles authorizes the enlistment of runaway slaves into the naval service
Crime/Disasters U.S. Navy sailing vessel strikes a reef off Haiti and is lost though all the crew survive
Battles/Soldiers U.S. Navy recaptures the Boston schooner "Enchantress" taken as a Confederate prize two weeks before
Crime/Disasters U.S. Navy prize caught running the Charleston blockade sinks off North Carolina on its way to Boston
Crime/Disasters U.S. Navy monitor besieging Charleston sinks in heavy weather and over thirty crewmen are lost
Battles/Soldiers - U.S. Navy intercepts and destroys Confederate blockade-runner crossing the bar in Charleston Harbor
Battles/Soldiers U.S. Navy gunboats demand the surrender of Natchez, Mississippi
Slavery/Abolition U.S. Navy delivers captured American slave ship with 507 African slaves aboard to Key West, Florida
Slavery/Abolition U.S. Navy captures unregistered slave ship off the north coast of Cuba
Slavery/Abolition U.S. Navy captures New Orleans owned slave ship off the coast of Cuba
Slavery/Abolition U.S. Navy captures Baltimore owned slave ship off Cuban coast with five hundred slaves aboard
Slavery/Abolition U.S. Navy captures American slaveship with 318 slaves aboard
Slavery/Abolition U.S. Navy captures American slave ship off the coast of Cuba with 507 African slaves aboard
Battles/Soldiers U.S. naval units secure the forts of the Florida Keys against secessionist takeover
Battles/Soldiers U.S. naval units drive off a Confederate attempt to capture Donaldsonville, Louisiana
Battles/Soldiers U.S. naval units controversially capture the notorious raider C.S.S. Florida in neutral waters off the coast of Brazil
Education/Culture U.S. Naval Academy opens as a four year institution
Battles/Soldiers U.S. Infantry and Comanche clash at Hatch's Ranch in New Mexico
Lawmaking/Litigating U.S. House censures former Secretary of War Simon Cameron for his lax fiscal dealings while in office
Battles/Soldiers U.S. Government takes over the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Delaware Railroad
Slavery/Abolition U.S. Government contracts with American Colonization Society to transport rescued African slaves to Liberia
Battles/Soldiers U.S. General Weitzel arrives in Bagdad, Mexico to restore order and declares martial law.
Military/Violent U.S. forces defeat a large Mexican contingent at Palo Alto in Texas
US/the World U.S. Commodore Matthew C. Perry anchors his ships in Edo Bay near Tokyo and delivers a letter from President Millard Fillmore
US/the World U.S. Commissioner James Bowlin arrives in Paraguay to negotiate a commerce and navigation treaty
Crime/Disasters U.S. Coast Survey steamship sinks off New Jersey coast with heavy loss of life
Battles/Soldiers U.S. Army units defeat a Native American force in the Battle of Four Lakes in Oregon
Battles/Soldiers U.S. Army skirmish with the Mescalero Apache in west Texas goes badly