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Tennessee Military Governor Andrew Johnson frees his personal slaves in Greeneville, Tennessee despite them being…
The Anglo-Satsuma War begins between the Satsuma Domain of Japan and the United Kingdom (Traditional Japanese date:…
The Dominican Restoration War begins when Gregorio Luperón raises the Dominican flag in Santo Domingo after Spain had…
American Civil War: In Charleston, South Carolina, Union batteries and ships bombard Confederate-held Fort Sumter.
Lawrence, Kansas is destroyed by pro-Confederate guerrillas known as Quantrill's Raiders.
American Civil War: Confederate forces evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island in South Carolina.
American Civil War: Union troops under Quincy A. Gillmore capture Fort Wagner in Morris Island after a seven-week siege.
American Civil War: In the Second Battle of Sabine Pass, a small Confederate force thwarts a Union invasion of Texas.
American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.
American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga begins between Confederate and Union forces. It involves the second…
American Civil War: The first day of the Battle of Chickamauga, in northwestern Georgia, the bloodiest two-day battle…
American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga, in northwestern Georgia, ends in a Confederate victory.
The last Thursday in November is declared as Thanksgiving Day by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
American Civil War: Confederate troops under the command of A. P. Hill fail to drive the Union Army completely out of…
American Civil War: Union forces led by General William F. Smith defeat Confederate forces in the Battle of Brown's…
American Civil War: Battle of Wauhatchie: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant repel a Confederate attack led…
American Civil War: Battle at Lee's Mills in Virginia
American Civil War: The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, a bill ending slavery in the District of Colu
American Civil War: The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, a bill ending slavery in the District of Colu
Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the experiment disproving the theory of spontaneous generation