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President Abraham Lincoln delivered the @GettysburgNMP Address #OTD in 1863. The exact wording of the address is not agreed upon, as the surviving copies written by Lincoln slightly vary. He signed only one of these, which is generally accepted as the text. #CivilWar

The Siege of Knoxville, TN began #OTD in 1863 when General Ambrose Burnside’s Army of the Ohio took up defensive positions inside the city, which confederate James Longstreet then surrounded with his veteran corps. #CivilWar

The engagement was part of Longstreet’s Knoxville Campaign, his only independent command during the war. Intended to occupy Knoxville’s rail junction as a means of connecting the confederate armies in the East and West, it failed when Longstreet could not dislodge Burnside.

#OTD in 1864, General William T. Sherman gave the order to burn most of the city of Atlanta before setting off on his March to the Sea. When the destruction began three days later, more than 3,000 building were destroyed. #CivilWar

The strategy worked. Most of the confederate cannon were disabled, leading Drayton to order the forts evacuated. Landing parties occupied the forts and raised the U.S. flag. It was a relatively bloodless operation given its size, with only 19 combined men killed on both sides.

Within a month, South Carolina voted to secede from the United States and was followed ultimately by ten other states whose economies and identities were heavily tied to slavery. A month after Lincoln's inauguration, secessionists fired upon @FtSumterNPS, launching the Civil War.

Inventor Richard J. Gatling patented what is considered the first successful machine gun #OTD in 1862. The Gatling Gun saw limited use during the #CivilWar, including in the siege of @PetersburgNPS and in suppressing the New York Draft Riots.

John Brown, the Kansas abolitionist who seized the @HarpersFerryNPS Arsenal a month earlier, was convicted #OTD in 1859 of murder, treason, and conspiring with slaves to rebel. He was hanged a month later, ending what is known as the Tragic Prelude to the #CivilWar.

Transferred to the Western Theater, Hooker performed well at the Battle of Lookout Mountain in the Chattanooga Campaign. He resigned shortly after in yet another dispute, this time with General William T. Sherman about being passed over to command The Army of the Tennessee.

Cushing was the younger brother of Lt. Alonzo Cushing, a @USArmy officer who was killed at the Battle of @GettysburgNMP, dying at his artillery battery during Pickett’s Charge. In 2014, 151 years after his death, he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.