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The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou ended in 1862. Troops of Gen. William T. Sherman’s XIII Corps of the Army of the Tennessee assaulted the positions of Gen. John Pemberton’s command north of .

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Two baseball teams made up of soldiers played each other on the U.S. base at Hilton Head, SC in 1862. The teams, representing different regiments of New York troops, were watched by as many as 40,000 spectators.

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December 16, 1862: Walt Whitman saw the name of his brother George listed among the wounded at Fredericksburg. Whitman immediately set out from Brooklyn to the Washington area to search the hospitals.
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Forces under Gen. William T. Sherman completed their March to the Sea in 1864, by arriving on the outskirts of , GA. It would take another 10 days to force Gen. William Hardee to abandon the city.

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3 December 1642 The Earl of Newcastle entered securing it for King Charles I. It would remain a Royalist stronghold for the next two years.

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25 November 1644 Oliver Cromwell denounced the Earl of Manchester's leadership of the Eastern Association army in Parliament. The ensuing debates led to reforms in Parliament’s armies and increased professionalisation of its officers.

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November 19, 1863: President Abraham Lincoln delivered the famous "Gettysburg Address" at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, PA
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President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Address 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.

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The Siege of Knoxville, TN began 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.

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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.

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

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John Brown, the Kansas abolitionist who seized the Arsenal a month earlier, was convicted 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

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During the Forrest fought against the United States, commanding confederate cavalry in the western theater. He was responsible for the infamous Fort Pillow massacre, in which his men murdered hundreds of unarmed, surrendering Black soldiers of the .

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When the began, Baker sought and was granted permission to raise and command a regiment of volunteers without surrendering his Senate seat. He was made Colonel of the 1st Regiment, California Volunteer Infantry, or simply the California Regiment.

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Within the next two months, Brown was tried, found guilty of treason and murder, and hanged. His raid and planned rebellion was viewed by Southerners as a prelude to more aggressive actions to end slavery, contributing to the push for secession and, ultimately, the

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