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The second session of the 37th Congress is sitting in Washington, DC |
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Union infantry arrives at Ship Island, Mississippi in the first build-up of forces intending to capture New Orleans |
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U.S.S. Hartford returns home from Asia with four officers who had declared for the Confederacy |
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Lillian Russell, famous American operetta singer, born in Clinton, Iowa |
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In the English port of Southampton, the Confederate warship Nashville enters dry-dock for repairs |
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In southern Italy, a serious eruption of Mount Vesuvius shatters the town of Torre del Greco |
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In Indian Territory, Union and Confederate Native American troops clash at the Battle of Chusto-Talasah |
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In Washington, the U.S. Senate votes 33 to 3 to set up the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War |
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In Washington, the U.S. House of Representatives votes for a Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War |
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A devastating fire destroys a third of Charleston, South Carolina destroying hundreds of historic buildings |
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At the Academy of Music in New York City, William Hanlon debuts his celebrated trapeze act |
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Kansas Volunteers burn the western Missouri towns of Papinsville and Butler in Bates County |
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Confederate forces repel a heavy Union attack on their base at Camp Allegheny in the western Virginia mountains |
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In Vietnam, French forces under Rear Admiral Louis-Adolph Bonard besiege and capture Bien-Hoa |
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In Southampton harbor, the Confederate warship Nashville dips its flag in mourning for Prince Albert |
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Prince Albert, husband and consort of Queen Victoria dies at Windsor Castle, aged forty-two |
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At Fort Bliss, Confederate Brigadier-General Henry Sibley takes command of the "Army of New Mexico" |
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In Missouri, Union troops searching for Confederate guerrillas burn most of Platte City to the ground |
| Education/Culture |
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Seneca Indian runner Deerfoot ends his first season in England winning thirteen of fifteen races |
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The "Stone Fleet" sets sail from Port Royal, South Carolina for Charleston Harbor |
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The U.S. Navy's "Stone Fleet" is deliberately sunk in the channels of Charleston Harbor |
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In central Missouri, Union forces capture hundreds of newly recruited Missouri State Guardsmen |
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In Jackson County, Virginia, Confederate irregulars raid the town of Ripley and rob the post office |
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In Washington, the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War meets for the first time |
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Former Iowa Senator George W. Jones arrested in New York and imprisoned for suspected disloyalty |
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Pennsylvania troops push back Confederate units in a small battle near Dranesville, Virginia |
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Insurgents destroy track and equipment along a hundred mile stretch of the North Missouri Railroad |
| US/the World |
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Prince Albert, husband and consort of Queen Victoria, is buried in St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle |
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In Lisbon, the Cortes declares deceased King Pedro's brother as King Luis I of Portugal |
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In Knoxville, Tennessee, a condemned Unionist saboteur receives an eleventh hour reprieve from President Davis |
