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Major Henry Wirz is hanged and becomes the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes. He was superintendent of the infamous prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia. |
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CSS General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant Confederate army at Fort Towson in the Oklahoma Territory |
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Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commanding the Trans-Mississippi division, becomes the last general of the CSA to surrender to Union forces at Galveston, Texas. |
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Union forces defeat Confederates in the Battle of Palmito Beach, the final land battle of the U.S. Civil War. |
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Jefferson Davis is captured near Irwinville, GA. |
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The steamboat Sultana, carrying Union survivors of the Andersonville Prison, explodes in the Mississippi River, killing 1,700. |
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Boston Corbett shoots John Wilkes Booth dead in a Virginia barn. |
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Despite orders from Jefferson Davis, Johnston surrenders his army upon learning of Lee's capitulation at Appomattox Courthouse. |
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Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse. |
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In the Battle of Sayler's Creek, General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond. |
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Robert E. Lee is promoted to be general-in-chief of Confederate forces and begins to advocate a policy by which slaves could gain their freedom by service in the Confederate army. |
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Civil War Battle at Gordonsville, Virginia. |
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Sherman's March to the Sea ends with the Union capture of Savannah, Georgia from the Confederates. |
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Union troops led by general George Thomas defeat Confederate troops in the Battle of Nashville. |
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The US Civil War Battle of Nashville begins, in TN. |
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Civil War Battle of Franklin, Tennessee. |
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Atlanta is reoccupied by Confederate forces.
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Eight confederate agents, each armed with 10 self-igniting bombs commonly called "Greek Fire" started fires in hotels, theaters, museums and shipping facilities in New York City. Although the fires caused extensive damage, the volunteer fire companies prevented the loss of even a single life by rap ... |
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Confederate troops bomb a Union station destroying millions of dollars worth of supplies during the Battle of Johnsonville. |
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Confederates surrender the city of Atlanta. |
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Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches. |
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Confederate forces commanded by General John Bell Hood make a third attempt to drive Union forces under Sherman from Atlanta, Georgia in the Battle of Ezra Church. |
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Confederate forces commanded by Gen. John Bell Hood and Lt. Gen. William J. Hardee unsuccessfully attack Union troops in the Battle of Atlanta. The Union suffered 3,641 casualties, while the Confederacy suffered a devestating 8,499 casualties. |
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Confederate forces commanded by John Bell Hood unsuccessfully attack Union troops under William T. Sherman in the Battle of Peachtree Creek, near Atlanta, Georgia. |
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John Bell Hood replaces Joseph E. Johnston as Commander of the Army of Tennessee. |
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U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for "public use, resort and recreation." |
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In an attempt to take control of the Weldon Railroad and bottle-up Petersburg and Richmond, Gen. Ulysses Grant extends the Petersburg line. The Confederates halted the attempt. |
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The Confederate raider CSS Alabama loses a naval duel with the USS Kearsarge and sinks off the coast of Cherbourg, France. |
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Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant engage troops led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee in the Battle of Petersburg, Virginia. The siege of Petersburg lasted for 10 months and foreshadowed the trench warfare of WWI. |
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Confederate troops under Nathan Bedford Forrest defeat a much larger Union force led by General Samuel D. Sturgis in Mississippi at the Battle of Brice's Crossroads. |
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