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Legal/Political	Tue, September 9, 1851	Vigilance agent follows Gorsuch posse
Legal/Political	Tue, October 4, 1859	Vigilance Committee forms in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana
Battles/Soldiers	Sat, May 11, 1861	Violence continues on the streets of St. Louis as pro-Union militia battle with pro-Confederate mobs
Crime/Disasters	Thu, March 15, 1860	Violent earthquake strikes Carson City, Nevada causing damage but no deaths
Crime/Disasters	Thu, February 9, 1860 - Fri, February 10, 1860	Violent gales cause heavy damage in New York City and Philadelphia
Crime/Disasters	Sun, June 17, 1860	Violent storm strikes Albany, New York
Lawmaking/Litigating	Sat, February 18, 1860	Virginia Democrats urge participation in the proposed convention of southern states
Lawmaking/Litigating	Fri, March 16, 1860	Virginia executes Harpers Ferry raiders Albert Hazlett and Aaron Dwight Stevens
Personal	Fri, December 2, 1859	Virginia executes John Brown
Battles/Soldiers	Mon, August 26, 1861	Virginia regiments surround, defeat, and scatter the Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry at Cross Lanes, Virginia
Lawmaking/Litigating	Mon, February 13, 1860	Virginia rejects South Carolina's call for a convention of southern states
Lawmaking/Litigating	Tue, June 5, 1860	Virginia Republican arrested for circulating anti-southern literature
Lawmaking/Litigating	Mon, April 2, 1860	Virginia State legislature finishes its 1859-1860 session
Women/Families	Thu, April 2, 1863	Virginia working women demonstrate and then precipitate a "Bread Riot"in the Confederate capital
Lawmaking/Litigating	Mon, June 19, 1865 - Fri, June 23, 1865	Virginia's "Alexandria" legislature moves back to Richmond for its final session
Lawmaking/Litigating	Mon, February 4, 1861	Virginians elect delegates to their secession convention
US/the World	Thu, May 24, 1860	Visiting Japanese diplomats tour the Washington Naval Yard
Education/Culture	Wed, November 18, 1863	Visitors and townsfolk serenade President Lincoln on a warm and clear Gettysburg evening
Battles/Soldiers	Thu, November 30, 1865	Volunteer Generals Butler and Dix end their Civil War military service
Battles/Soldiers	Wed, July 1, 1863	Volunteer Philadelphia Artillery battery, full of distinguished Philadelphians, goes into action at Carlisle
Campaigns/Elections	Sat, October 6, 1860	W.H. Seward arrives home in Auburn, New York after his Midwestern electioneering tour
Personal	Sat, April 7, 1860	W.K. Kellogg born in Battle Creek, Michigan
Education/Culture	Thu, April 7, 1859	Walter Camp born in New Britain, Connecticut
Campaigns/Elections	Wed, June 17, 1863	War Democrat John Brough nominated for Unionist Governor of Ohio to face Vallandigham
Battles/Soldiers	Sat, June 30, 1866	War Department figures indicate only 23,294 thousand volunteers remain from its vast Civil War army.
Battles/Soldiers	Thu, November 1, 1866	War Department figures indicate that only eleven thousand volunteers remain from its vast Civil War army.
Battles/Soldiers	Fri, June 12, 1863	War Department renames the forts defending Washington DC to honor senior officers killed in the war
Lawmaking/Litigating	Wed, June 24, 1863	War Department sets generous cash bounties for veterans who reenlist in the Union Army
Crime/Disasters	Sat, March 8, 1862	War souvenir kills two young men in a Camden, New Jersey hotel
Lawmaking/Litigating	Mon, May 14, 1860	Warrant issued for arrest of the New York City Postmaster after a $155,500 embezzlement discovered