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Shelby Moore Cullom serves in the United States House of Representatives |
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Burton Chauncey Cook serves in the United States House of Representatives |
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John Wentworth serves in the United States House of Representatives |
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In Cambridge, Ohio, two Union deserters murder the assistant Provost Marshal of the Seventeenth District |
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A massive evening fire in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince destroys much of the business district |
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Near Bristol, Pennsylvania, two troop trains collide killing five and injuring many more |
| Crime/Disasters |
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In South Carolina, teenaged domestic slave Amy Spain is hanged for proclaiming herself free |
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In Louisville, Kentucky, captured Confederate guerrilla M. Jerome Clarke, rumored to be "Sue Mundy," is executed for murder |
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Spring begins |
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Powerful and feared Confederate warship sails away from Ferrol in Spain and U.S. Navy warships decline an engagement |
| Science/Technology |
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In Wisconsin, a meteorite explodes in the morning skies over Vernon County |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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In New York Harbor, convicted Confederate spy and New York City arsonist Captain Robert Cobb Kennedy is executed |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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In the Blakeley River east of Mobile, Alabama, the U.S.S. Milwaukee hits a mine and sinks in three minutes |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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Confederate warship departs Lisbon and confusion involving following U.S. ships almost sparks an international incident |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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In western Maryland, Confederate raiders capture and burn the Baltimore to Wheeling mail train |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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At Dinwiddie Courthouse, Horatio Collins King performs the heroics for which he will later receive a Medal of Honor |
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Of Cape Hatteras, a Union transport ship burns and sinks, with at least five hundred men, women, and children lost |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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Twenty-six year old Union General Frederic Winthrop is killed at the head of his men at Five Forks |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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In Dinwiddie County, Virginia, the Union's Fifth Corps capture a vital crossroads at the Battle of Five Forks |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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In central Alabama, Union cavalry push back an outnumbered General Nathan Bedford Forest at the Battle of Ebenezer Church |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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In Alabama, a U.S. Navy stern-wheeler becomes the latest victim of Confederate mines near Mobile |
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In Virginia, Confederate General A.P. Hill is killed riding in front of the Confederate lines at Petersburg |
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In Canada, heavy spring flooding inundate portions of Montreal |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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In a bloody assault, Union troops take the fortified armaments manufacturing town of Selma, Alabama |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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The Confederate Government evacuates its capital of Richmond, hours before victorious Union troops march in |
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Richard Cobden, famed free trade advocate and strong British supporter of the Union dies in London |
| Crime/Disasters |
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In New Bern, North Carolina, a reported Confederate attempt to destroy the city by arson fails |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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After 292 days of Union siege, General Robert E. Lee orders the evacuation of Petersburg, Virginia |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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After nine months of bloody attempts, the Union Army marches into Petersburg, Virginia |
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In Richmond, teenaged Union officer Johnston De Peyster hoists the Stars and Stripes over the Confederate Capitol |
