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Events
1862
- Artillery duel between U. S. forces at Fort Pickens & Confederate forces at Fort Barrancas and Fort McRea, Florida
- James Mason and John Slidell leave Massachusetts for England on board the HMS Rinaldo, Massachusetts
- Action at the Coosaw River, South Carolina
- Action at Port Royal Ferry, South Carolina
1863
- President Abraham Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation.
- Affair at Helena, Arkansas
- Operations against Morgan (Dec. 22, 1862-Jan 2, 1863), Kentucky
- John Hunt Morgan's Raid (Dec. 22, 1862-Jan. 2, 1863), Kentucky
- Skirmish at Bath Springs, Mississippi
- Grant's Campaign in Central Mississippi (Oct. 31, 1862-Jan. 10, 1863), Mississippi
- Union Operations against Nathan Bedford Forrest (Dec. 18, 1862-Jan. 3, 1863), Mississippi
- Sherman's Operations against Vicksburg (Dec. 20, 1862-Jan 2, 1863), Mississippi
- Operations against Marmaduke (Dec. 31, 1862-Jan. 25, 1863), Missouri
- Skirmish near Clifton, Tennessee
- Skirmish at Lavergne, Tennessee
- Action at Stewart's Creek, Tennessee
- Battle of Stone's River or Murfreesboro (Dec. 31, 1862-Jan. 2, 1863), Tennessee
- Carter's Raid into East Tennessee & Southwest Virginia (Dec. 20, 1862-Jan. 5, 1863), Tennessee
- Stone's River or Murfreesboro Campaign (Dec. 26, 1862-Jan. 3, 1863), Tennessee
- Battle of Galveston, Texas
1864
- Skirmish near Dandridge, Tennessee
- Affair at Accotink, Virginia
- Skirmish at Rectortown, Virginia
- Affair at Bunker Hill, West Virginia
1865
- Skirmish at Bentonville, Arkansas
- Operations at Hermitage Plantation near Morganza (Dec. 14-Jan. 5), Louisiana
- Carolinas Campaign (Jan. 1-April 29, 1865), South Carolina & North Carolina
- Siege of Petersburg and Richmond (June 16, 1864-April 2, 1865), Virginia
Births
- Charles Ellet, Jr. - Union Field Officer & Engineer (1810)
- William Gamble - Union General (1818)
- George F. Shepley - Union General (1819)
- William Lewis Cabell - Confederate General (1827)
- John Ireland - Confederate Field Officer (1827)
- Horace Randal - Confederate General (1831)
- William Hugh Young - Confederate General (1838)
Deaths
- Edward Lea - Union Naval Officer (1863)
- William B. Renshaw - Union Naval Officer (1863)
- Jonathan Mayhew Wainright - Union Naval Officer (1863)
- James Chesnut, Jr. - Confederate General (1885)
- William Gaston Lewis - Confederate General (1901)
- James Edwin Slaughter - Confederate General (1901)
- William D. Whipple - Union General (1902)
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