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U.S. Navy intercepts and destroys Confederate blockade-runner crossing the bar in Charleston Harbor |
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In Minnesota, General H.H. Sibley and his men finally closes the pursuit of the Santee Sioux |
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In Dakota Territory, General H.H. Sibley and his men finally meet the Santee Sioux in the Battle of Big Mound |
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An exchange of wounded prisoners takes place off Fort Wagner in Charleston Harbor under a flag of truce |
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In Ohio, Union troops finally capture Confederate raider John Hunt Morgan and his men |
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Union troops skirmish with Confederate raider John Hunt Morgan's men around Washington, Ohio |
| Education/Culture |
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On the Hudson River at Poughkeepsie, New York, Joshua Ward regains his title as "Champion Sculler of America" |
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Sam Houston, hero of the Republic and State of Texas, dies at his home in Huntsville |
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In Dakota Territory, near Dead Buffalo Lake, Lakota Sioux strike at the pursuing U.S. Army but are driven off |
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Battle of Salineville, July 26, 1863 |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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In North Carolina, Union infantry land at Winton on the Chowan River to disrupt Confederate supply lines |
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In North Carolina, Union cavalry and infantry rendezvous on the Chowan River. |
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In Dakota Territory, at Stony Lake, Lakota and Santee Sioux fight covering action to protect retreat of their families |
| US/the World |
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Queen Victoria's address adjourning Parliament reiterates her government's "strict neutrality" in America |
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In North Carolina, Confederate defenders turn back a Union cavalry attack on the Weldon Railroad Bridge |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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In New Orleans, leading Creole citizen Captain Andre Cailloux is given a hero's funeral |
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Near present-day Bismarck, North Dakota, Sioux Indians intercept and kill General Sibley's aide as he delivers messages |
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Henry Ford, who will transform American industry and transportation, is born on a farm in Michigan |
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In Dakota Territory, General Sibley declines to cross the Missouri and ends his campaign to punish the Sioux |
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General George C. Strong, dead of wounds received at Fort Wagner, is buried at the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn |
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Near Cairo, Illinois, fire completely destroys a steamboat carrying Army Paymasters and more than $2,000,000 |
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In Virginia, a river mine causes heavy damage to Union naval units operating on the James River |
| Religion/Philosophy |
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In Philadelphia, the almost complete Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul is opened for a public reception |
| US/the World |
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Cambodia becomes a protectorate of France, extending French influence in southeast Asia. |
| Personal |
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Eugène Delacroix, French Romantic painter, dies in Paris, aged sixty-five |
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British naval units bombard and largely destroy the Japanese city of Kagoshima on the island of Kyushu |
| US/the World |
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Exiles from Haiti make a daring attack on Spanish-ruled Santo Domingo opening the two-year War of Restoration |
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Union gunners carry out a heavy five day bombardment of the Confederate forts defending Charleston |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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The military draft lottery resumes in New York City, more than a month after the Draft Riots |
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In Lawrence, Kansas, Confederate guerrillas destroy the town and murder hundreds of residents |
