9 April 1644 Parliamentarian forces under Sir William Waller stormed Winchester. They captured the town but the Royalist garrison held out in the castle.

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In recognition of April being in many southern states, we note that William Pegram was mortally wounded while commanding a battery of confederate artillery during the Battle of Five Forks, VA, which was a resounding victory for the Union.

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Este fue un dibujo de los primeros con mi tableta... aquí la comparación, espero les guste.

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29 March 1644 was the Battle of Cheriton (Alresford) in Hampshire. Sir William Waller defeated Lord Hopton and Lord Forth, ending the Royalist advance in the south-east.

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The book sold over 300,000 copies, making it the most widely sold novel of the 19th Century. Its stark depiction of the horrors of slavery fueled the abolitionist movement and elevated tensions between free and slave-holding states leading up to the

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Brevet Brigadier General Oliver D. Greene died in 1904 at the age of 71. A member of the Class of 1854, Greene was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions at while serving as Adjutant General of VI Corps.

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18 March 1643 Royalist forces under the Earl of Derby summoned Lancaster to surrender, to be rejected by the Mayor. "Enraged to see their sauciness" the Royalists plundered much of the town but were unable to capture the castle. (NPG)

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General William Rosecrans died in 1898 at the age of 78. A graduate of , he secured several critical victories for the in the Western Theater of the including the Battles of Iuka, Corinth, and .

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Fayetteville, NC was occupied by Union troops under General William Tecumseh Sherman in 1865 as part of their ongoing Carolinas Campaign. They captured the confederate arsenal there, which had produced nearly a million rounds of ammunition in 1864.

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March 4, 1861: Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated to his first term as the 16th President of the United States.
Portrait by Travis Simpkins
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Walter Herron Taylor, who served as principal aide-de-camp to Robert E. Lee for the entire died in 1916 at the age of 77. He was one of only two other confederate officers besides Lee who attended the signing of the surrender documents at .

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