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In Calloway County, Kentucky, Confederate forces abandon Fort Heiman to concentrate at Fort Henry |
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The U.S. Senate votes to expel Indiana Senator Jesse Bright as a Southern sympathizer |
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Britain rescinds its Trent Affair restrictions on the export of saltpeter and other war materials |
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In Philadelphia, a lager-beer brewery suffers heavy fire damage |
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With the opening of the Tennessee River, U.S. naval units raid deep into Tennessee and Alabama |
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Britain's Prince of Wales embarks on a five month tour of the Middle East |
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In western Tennessee, Fort Henry falls to the naval bombardment of Flag Officer Foote's gunboats |
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In northern California, a river steamer sinks in the Sacramento River but all aboard are rescued |
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In North Carolina, a combined federal army and navy operation captures Roanoke Island |
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Union artillery units shell Harpers Ferry in response to the reported abuse of a flag of truce |
| Education/Culture |
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At London's Covent Garden Theater, Sir Julius Benedict's light opera "The Lily of Killarney" opens |
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Brigadier General Charles Pomeroy Stone, USA, arrested in his Washington hotel room and imprisoned |
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In Philadelphia, the city's War of 1812 veterans organize a militia company |
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In North Wales, sixteen lead miners drown in a pit disaster |
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In Warren County, Kentucky, Confederate forces begin the evacuation of Bowling Green |
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In Greece, young army officers initiate a revolt against the ruling royal family |
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In Tennessee, Union forces surround Fort Donelson and begin probing attacks |
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In Tennessee, Union troops reinforce the siege of Fort Donelson, while gunboats attack from the river |
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Full moon |
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In Tennessee, Confederate troops attempt a full-scale break out from the siege of Fort Donelson |
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The United States reclassifies convicted Confederate privateers as prisoners of war |
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In Warren County, Kentucky, Confederate forces complete the evacuation of Bowling Green |
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In Tennessee, General Grant forces Fort Donelson's "unconditional and immediate" surrender |
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New steamship bound for Canada with British government supplies sinks in a storm in mid-Atlantic |
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In Washington, the House of Representatives votes 125-7 to establish a Department of Agriculture |
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The victory at Fort Donelson met with enthusiastic celebrations in Philadelphia and across the North |
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In Richmond, Virginia, the First Confederate Congress is meeting in its first session |
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Britain's House of Commons debates a bill to allow a man to marry his deceased wife's sister |
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At Greenpoint, New York, John Ericsson's new ironclad is completed and turned over the the U.S. Navy. |
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Another British mining disaster kills forty-nine, this time in South Wales |
