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In Baltimore, a hotel suspected of being a Confederate mail station is raided and seized |
| Crime/Disasters |
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The Dupont Gunpowder factory near Wilmington, Delaware suffer a heavy explosion that kills four workers |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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A party of Californians under Daniel Showalter make for Confederate Arizona with Union cavalry in pursuit |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Judah P. Benjamin is named as Confederate Secretary of War and Thomas Bragg as Attorney General |
| US/the World |
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In southern England, the Confederate commerce raider Nashville docks for repairs in the port of Southampton |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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Albert Pike is commissioned as a Confederate brigadier general and given command of the Indian Territory |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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On the Florida coast, Union artillery and navy ships bombard Confederate positions around Pensacola |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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On the Georgia coast, U.S. Navy boat crews take control of Tybee Island |
| Crime/Disasters |
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In Scotland, one of Edinburgh's oldest tenements collapses killing thirty-two sleeping inhabitants |
| Business/Industry |
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In Europe's Low Countries, a new railroad line links Liège in Belgium and Maastricht in southern Holland |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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In Kentucky, Lt-Colonel Nathan Bedford Forrest makes his first cavalry reconnaissance of the war |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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Major Isaac Lynde, officer who surrendered Fort Fillmore in New Mexico dismissed from U.S. Army |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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In Paducah, Kentucky, Union officers clash over the treatment of a local secessionist |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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In Wheeling, the elected West Virginia convention is meeting to write a constitution for the new state |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Wreckage of missing Prussian warship found along the Dutch coast |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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Philadelphia's Home Guard, instituted in September, now numbers around four thousand members |
| Crime/Disasters |
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In South Philadelphia, St Paul Catholic Church is almost completely destroyed by fire |
| US/the World |
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In Liverpool, the news of the interception and seizure of Mason and Slidell reaches England |
| Science/Technology |
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In South Carolina, an underwater telegraph cable in Charleston Harbor links Forts Moultrie and Sumter |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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In Richmond, the Confederate Congress votes to admit Missouri as the Confederacy's eleventh state |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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Union cavalry capture sixteen Californians under Daniel Showalter making for Confederate Arizona |
| US/the World |
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Rear Admiral Louis-Adolph Bonard succeeds Vice Admiral Charmer as head of French forces in Vietnam |
| Education/Culture |
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Ethel Beers publishes her poem "The Picket Guard" with its famous lines "All Quiet Along the Potomac" |
| US/the World |
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In the Trent Affair, the British Foreign Secretary demands an apology and release of Mason and Slidell |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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In Greeneville, Tennessee, the Confederate military executes two local Unionists for burning railroad bridges |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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The captured blockade runner Albion arrives in New York Harbor under a prize crew from USS Penguin |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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The second session of the 37th Congress opens in Washington, DC |
| Crime/Disasters |
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In Belgium, a huge and fatal fire burns Antwerp's largest sugar refinery |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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The Wheeling Convention votes to drop the provisional name "Kanawha" in favor of "West Virginia" |
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In Salem, Missouri, Confederate raiders surprise the Union garrison but are driven from the town |
