| Education/Culture |
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Advocates for women's rights meet in Poughkeepsie, New York |
| Personal |
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African-American actress and activist Henrietta Vinton Davis born in Baltimore, Maryland |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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African-American slave defects with his Confederate dispatch boat from Charleston Harbor |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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African-American troops perform well in the abortive attack on Port Hudson and earn wide praise |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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Afro-Creole Captain Andre Cailloux falls at the head of his troops in the attack on Port Hudson |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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After 292 days of Union siege, General Robert E. Lee orders the evacuation of Petersburg, Virginia |
| Crime/Disasters |
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After a ten week voyage from India, a East India merchant ship wrecks on the Irish coast |
| Crime/Disasters |
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After eight days, rescuers at the Hartley Colliery disaster find the remains of 199 men and boys |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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After forty-seven days of intense siege, Vicksburg surrenders to Grant's Army of the Tennessee |
| US/the World |
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After heated anti-Spanish demonstrations in Lima, Peruvian President Canseco is overthrown |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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After midnight outside Carlisle, General J.E.B. Stuart's cavalry is ordered to concentrate on Gettysburg |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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After more than three months, the U.S. Senate releases Thaddeus Hyatt from the Washington Jail |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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After nine months of bloody attempts, the Union Army marches into Petersburg, Virginia |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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After Philippi, nineteen years old James Edward Hanger becomes the first amputee of the Civil War |
| US/the World |
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After the Morant Bay riots, Jamaica's Governor John Eyre hangs his main legislative critic for high treason |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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After thirty-five years of anti-slavery efforts under William Lloyd Garrison, the Liberator ceases publication |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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After twice failing to storm the city, Union General Grant orders a siege at Vicksburg, Mississippi |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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After weeks of refusal, the commander of Fort Brown in Texas surrenders and marches his men to the coast |
| Business/Industry |
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Agoston Haraszthy brings 100,000 vine cuttings from Europe to the vineyards of northern California |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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Alabama Constitutional Union Convention in Selma applauds nominations of Bell and Everett |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Alabama holds an elected State Convention to plan for the state's return to full national participation |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Alabama lighter capsizes in Mobile Bay during a squall and two men drown |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Alabama secedes from the Union |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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Alabama state troops seize the massive arsenal at Mount Vernon in Mobile County |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Alabama U.S. Attorney shoots down Alabama U.S. District Judge in the streets of Mobile. |
| Slavery/Abolition |
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Alabama's African-Americans hold their First Freedmen's Convention at Mobile |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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Alabama's commissioner to Kentucky warns Governor Magoffin of race war under Republican rule |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Alabama's secession commissioner warns Delaware of slave insurrection under Republican rule |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Alabama's secession convention assembles in Montgomery |
| Foreign |
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Alberdi publishes a proposal for a new Argentine constitution based heavily on the Constitution of the United States |
