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General Hunter takes his leave after an eventful year as head of the Department of the South |
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In Wisconsin, the Milwaukee and Horicon Railroad is sold at a U.S. Marshal's auction |
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On Lake Michigan, two bodies are found from a Chicago tugboat sinking three weeks before |
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In London, the Arts Club is officially founded at its inaugural General Meeting |
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War Department renames the forts defending Washington DC to honor senior officers killed in the war |
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In western Virginia, the second Battle of Winchester ends in heavy Union defeat |
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In New Zealand, the young Samuel Butler suggests the Darwinian rise of machines over man |
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Canadian passenger ship wrecks on Nova Scotia coast after crossing Atlantic, all aboard saved |
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A brand new Hudson River tug explodes its boiler on its first trip upriver, killing seven |
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In Louisiana, Confederate defenders of Port Hudson beat back another all-out Union assault |
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In New York City, twenty-nine horses die in an overnight fire when their stable is destroyed |
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Texas Infantry fight a rearguard action as the Confederates withdraw from Richmond, Louisiana |
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In Louisiana, the Siege of Port Hudson continues |
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In the District of Columbia, the sun rises today at 4:33 am and sets at 7:19 pm local time |
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The War Department commissions the twenty-six graduates of the West Point class of 1863 |
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At Emmitsburg, Maryland, students at Mount Saint Mary help contain a disastrous fire in the town |
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General Albert Jenkins' Confederate cavalry occupy the Pennsylvania border town of Chambersburg |
| Education/Culture |
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In baseball news, the Philadelphia Athletic Club touring team visits New York City |
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In Franklin County, Pennsylvania, Confederate cavalry burn the Cumberland Valley Railroad bridge at Scotland |
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In Minnesota, General H.H. Sibley and more than three thousand troops march against the Santee Sioux |
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At "Fort Fizzle" in Holmes County, Ohio, federal troops end active draft resistance |
| Business/Industry |
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Striking railroad company workers riot in Albany, New York |
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In Virginia, a future director of the Metropolitan Museum wins the Medal of Honor while under arrest |
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War Democrat John Brough nominated for Unionist Governor of Ohio to face Vallandigham |
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The Pennsylvania Democratic State Convention opens in Harrisburg |
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On the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Confederate cavalry catch the last train from Harpers Ferry |
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In Virginia, future founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra left for dead on the battlefield |
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Union cavalry try to break through the Confederate cavalry screen at Aldie in Loudoun County, Virginia |
| Business/Industry |
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Traveller's Insurance Company chartered in Hartford, Connecticut |
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The C.S.S. Atlanta attempts to attack the U.S. Navy off Savannah, Georgia and lasts fifteen minutes |
