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U.S. Navy gunboats demand the surrender of Natchez, Mississippi |
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Natchez, Mississippi surrenders to U.S. Navy gunboats |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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African-American slave defects with his Confederate dispatch boat from Charleston Harbor |
| Science/Technology |
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London-based Swiss watchmaker patents the first practical chronograph |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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President Lincoln visits General McClellan's headquarters at Fredericksburg, Virginia |
| Education/Culture |
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First enclosed baseball ground in the country opens in Brooklyn |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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In the Virginia Senate, Senator R. R. Collier opens debate on the centrality of slavery to the South |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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In Washington, President Lincoln signs a bill to establish a separate Department of Agriculture |
| US/the World |
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The war-weary Vietnamese appoint negotiators to treat for a peace treaty with the invading French |
| Crime/Disasters |
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U.S. Navy transport with new Department of the South commander aboard wrecked in North Carolina |
| Science/Technology |
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In Paris, Etienne Renoir demonstrates his internal combustion powered "horseless carriage" |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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U.S. Navy warships demand the surrender of Galveston, Texas |
| Crime/Disasters |
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In Georgia, an Atlanta warehouse packed with cotton and foodstuffs burns to the ground |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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In Mississippi, the mayor and defenders of Vicksburg reject U.S. Navy demands for the city's surrender |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Governor Yates of Illinois calls for recruits to fill up the state's depleted regiments |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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President Lincoln declares void Union General David Hunter's South Carolina declaration of emancipation |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Maryland slaveholders meet President Lincoln to complain about non-enforcement of Fugitive Slave Act |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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In Arizona, the California Volunteer Cavalry retake Tucson without firing a shot |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Former Whig congressman Edward Stanly appointed military governor of eastern North Carolina |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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President Lincoln signs the Homestead Act |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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The War Department reopens military recruitment across the North |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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The U.S. Senate organizes the impeachment trial of U.S. District Judge West H. Humphreys |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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In Richmond, the Confederate Navy convenes a court of inquiry over the destruction of the Merrimac |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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The Confederate First Maryland meets the Union First Maryland at the Battle of Front Royal |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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In the Shenandoah Valley, Stonewall Jackson takes Front Royal after a three day forced march |
| Science/Technology |
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In Virginia, the Beardslee Field Telegraph apparatus is demonstrated for the first time |
| Science/Technology |
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In London, the new Westminster Bridge opens to full traffic, five years behind schedule |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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Stonewall Jackson wins a major victory at Winchester and drives Union forces back into Maryland |
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Major General Banks completes his withdrawal from the Shenandoah Valley to Maryland |
| US/the World |
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Negotiations begin in Saigon to end the fighting between the French invaders and the Vietnamese |
