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Confederate President Davis removes General Joe Johnston as commander of the Army of the Tennessee |
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Confederate raiders infiltrating from Canada fail in an attempt to rob the town bank in Calais, Maine |
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Chinese Imperial forces capture Nanjing, breaking at last the resistance of the Taiping Rebellion |
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In Philadelphia, parts of a female asylum collapse, killing fifteen patients and injuring twenty more |
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In Georgia, Union Colonel John W. Sprague fights a determined rearguard action and saves his Army's supply trains |
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At the Battle of Atlanta, the Union's Army of the Tennessee defeats Confederate attempts to defend the city |
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General James McPherson, commanding the Union's Army of the Tennessee, is killed at the Battle of Atlanta |
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In Georgia, Private Harry Davis captures the flag of the 40th Louisiana and later makes the front page of Harper's Magazine |
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In the campaign against Atlanta, Union forces inflict heavy losses on Confederate troops at the Battle of Ezra Church |
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In Virginia, a spectacular Union attempt to break the siege of Petersburg ends in disaster in "The Battle of the Crater" |
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In Pennsylvania, the third Confederate occupation of Chambersburg proves unlucky as the town is burned to the ground |
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In South America, Brazil delivers Uruguay an ultimatum over the security of its southern border |
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In Mobile Bay, Alabama, U.S. naval forces win a comprehensive victory over the Confederate fleet |
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In Belfast, the unveiling of a statue in Dublin to Daniel O'Connell touches off anti-Catholic demonstrations |
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At Plum Creek in Nebraska, Cheyenne Indians attack and wipe out a sizable wagon train carrying freight, killing eleven |
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In Virginia, a massive explosion at the Union supply depot at City Point kills more than forty workers |
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In Belfast, Catholics retaliate against Protestant rioters and the mobs battle in the streets |
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The U.S. Navy seizes a Confederate raider, now a British civilian vessel, off the coast of Portugal |
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In Tennessee, Confederate General Forrest's cavalry makes a daring raid into the streets of Union-held Memphis |
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In Switzerland, sixteen countries sign the first Geneva Convention on the treatment of prisoners and wounded |
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The U.S.S. Niagara visits Dover on the English coast to drop off a captured British crew |
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At Ream's Station in Virginia, Confederate units make a powerful effort to regain the control of the vital Weldon Railroad |
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In Chicago, the Democratic Party meets for its national nominating convention |
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Union forces break the last Confederate efforts to defend Atlanta at the Battle of Jonesborough |
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Career soldier Absalom Baird wins the Medal of Honor, leading a bayonet charge at Jonesborough |
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At Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island, provincial delegates meet to discuss possible Canadian unity |
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The Union's Army of the Tennessee captures Atlanta, boosting northern morale and Republican prospects |
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Near Norfolk, Virginia, a veteran U.S. Navy frigate burns and sinks at her moorings |
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The people of Nevada vote on their proposed constitution and statehood |
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The German-American gymnastics movement, the Turn Verein, holds a large festival in New York |
