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| =1800 |
- 24 April 1800: Library of Congress established - 15 May 1800: President John Adams orders federal government to Washington, D.C. - 3 June 1800: President John Adams moves into a tavern in Washington, DC - 1 Nov 1800: President John Adams moves into White House - Link, - |
| =1801 |
- 17 Feb 1801: Thomas Jefferson is elected third US
President - 24 Dec 1801: Richard Trevithick introduces his "Puffing Devil" (The first steam powered passenger vehicle) - |
| =1802 |
- 16 March 1802: US Military Academy established - 3 May 1802: Washington DC was incorporated as a city - 22 May 1802: First Lady Martha Washington dies - 3 July 1802: US military academy officially opened at West Point, NY - |
| =1803 |
- 1 Jan 1803: Haitian independence proclaimed - 18 Jan 1803: President Jefferson requests funding for Lewis and Clark expedition - - 24 Feb 1803: Marbury v. Madison establishes judicial review - 17 March 1803: Explorer Jim Bridger born - 11 April 1803: French Foreign Minister Talleyrand offers to sell Louisiana Territory to US - 30 April 1803: US and France conclude the Louisiana Purchase - 20 Oct 1803: U.S. Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase - - |
| =1804 |
- 1 Jan 1804: Haitian independence proclaimed - 16 Feb 1804: US Navy stages daring mission during first Barbary War - 17 March 1804: Jim Bridger, mountain man and explorer, born - 21 March 1804: Napoleonic Code approved in France - 26 March 1804: President Thomas Jefferson presented with a "Mammoth loaf" of bread - 14 May 1804: Lewis and Clark depart St. Louis to explore the Northwest - - 11 July 1804: Aaron Burr kills Alexander Hamilton in a duel - 20 Aug 1804: Corps of Discovery suffers its only death - 2 Dec 1804: Napoleon crowned emperor - Link, - |
| =1805 |
- 11 Feb 1805: Sacagawea gives birth to her first
child - 2 April 1805: Hans Christian Andersen is born - 7 April 1805: Lewis and Clark depart Fort Mandan, North Dakota - 27 April 1805: US agent William Eaton leads US forces "to the shores of Tripoli" - 13 June 1805: Meriwether Lewis reaches the Great Falls of the Missouri River - 21 Oct 805: Battle of Trafalgar - 7 Dec 1805: Lewis and Clark temporarily settle in Fort Clatsop - |
| =1806 |
- 23 March 1806: Lewis and Clark depart Fort Clatsop,
Oregon - 30 May 1806: Future president Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel - 15 July 1806: Pike expedition sets out across the American Southwest - 11 Aug 1806: Meriwether Lewis is shot in the leg - 20 Sept 1806: The returning Lewis and Clark reach the first white settlement on the Missouri - 23 Sept 1806: Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis - 15 Nov 1806: Zebulon Pike spots an imposing mountain - Link, - |
| =1807 |
- 13 Jan 1807: Union General Napoleon Bonaparte
Buford is born - 19 Jan 1807: Robert E. Lee born - 19 Feb 1807: Aaron Burr arrested for alleged treason - 2 March 1807: Congress abolishes the African Slave Trade - Link, - 13 June 1807: Thomas Jefferson subpoenaed in Aaron Burr's treason trial - 26 June 1807: Lightning strikes gunpowder factory in Luxembourg, killing hundreds - 1 Sept 1807: Aaron Burr acquitted of treason - History.com - - 24 Nov 1807: Mohawk Chief Thayendanegea dies - |
| =1808 |
- 10 Nov 1808: Osage tribe cedes Missouri and
Arkansas lands - 22 Dec 1808: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony given world premiere in Vienna - Link - |
| =1809 |
- 19 Jan 1809: Edgar Allan Poe is born - 12 Feb 1809: Abraham Lincoln is Born - Link, - 19 Apr 1809: Thomas Jefferson sells servant to newly elected President James Madison - Link, - 2 July 1809: Chief Tecumseh urges Native Americans to unite against white settlers - 11 Oct 1809: Meriwether Lewis dies along the Natchez Trace, Tennessee - Link, - |
| =1810 |
- 3 May 1810: Lord Byron swims across tumultuous Hellespont strait in
Turkey - 21 June 1810: Zachary Taylor marries Margaret Smith - 16 Sept 1810: Mexican War of Independence begins - 12 Oct 1810: Germany: The origin of Oktoberfest - |
| =1811 |
- 2 Jan 1811: First censuring of a U.S. senator - 14 June 1811: Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", born in Litchfield, CT - 30 Oct 1811: "Sense and Sensibility" is published - 16 Dec 1811: Earthquake rocks the American Wilderness - Link, - |
| =1812 |
- 2 Feb 1812: Russians establish Fort Ross in California - 7 Feb 1812: Earthquake causes fluvial tsunami in Mississippi - 11 May 1812: British Prime minister Spencer Perceval assassinated - 18 June 1812: War of 1812 begins - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/war-of-1812-begins - 24 June 1812: Napoleon's Grande Army invades Russia - 16 Aug 1812: US Surrenders Fort Detroit to British - 19 Aug 1812: Old Ironsides earns its name - 14 Sept 1812: Napoleon enters Moscow - 13 Oct 1812: Sir Isaac Brock saves Canada from US invasion - 19 Oct 1812: Napoleon retreats from Moscow - Link, - |
| =1813 |
- 26 Feb 1813: Robert R. Livingston, aka "The
Chancellor," dies - 27 April 1813: Zebulon Pike killed in battle - 27 May 1813: Thomas Jefferson writes to John Adams - 21 June 1813: French defeated in Spain, ending the Peninsular War - 7 Sept 1813: United States nicknamed Uncle Sam - Link, - 10 Sept 1813: The Battle of Lake Erie - 5 Oct 1813: Shawnee chief Tecumseh is defeated - |
| =1814 |
- 28 March 1814: Funeral held for the man behind the
guillotine (Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin) - 30 March 1814: Napoleon's forces defeated in Paris - 11 Apr 1814: Napoleon abdicates the throne and is exiled to Elba - Link, - 23 Aug 1814: Dolley Madison saves portrait from British - 24 Aug 1814: British troops set fire to the White House - 11 Sept 1814: America victorious on Lake Champlain - 14 Sept 1814: Francis Scott Key pens "The Star-Spangled Banner" - 24 Dec 1814: War of 1812 Ends - Link, - |
| =1815 |
- 8 Jan 1815: The Battle of New Orleans - 17 Apr 1815: Indonesian volcano erupts, killing 80,000 - 18 June 1815: Napoleon defeated at Waterloo - |
| =1816 |
- 1 Apr 1816: Jane Austen declines royal writing
advice - 21 Apr 1816: Charlotte Brontë born - 5 May 1816: The Examiner publishes John Keats' first poem - |
| =1817 |
- 12 Feb 1817: Revolutionary leader José de San
Martín routs Spanish forces in Chile - 3 Apr 1817: Texas Ranger "Big Foot" Wallace born - |
| =1818 |
- 1 Jan 1818:
Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" is published -
Link, - 14 Feb 1818: Frederick Douglass is born - 14 Apr 1818: Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language is printed - 3 Dec 1818: Illinois becomes the 21st State - Link, - |
| =1819 |
- 22 Feb 1819: The US acquires Spanish Florida - 31 May 1819: Poet Walt Whitman is born - |
| =1820 |
- 17 Jan 1820: English author Anne Brontë is born - 29 Jan 2020: King George III dies - 6 Feb 1820: Freed US slaves depart on journey to Africa - Link, - 17 Feb 1820: Senate passes Missouri Compromise - 3 March 1820: Congress Passes the Missouri Compromise - 6 March 1820: President Monroe signs the Missouri Compromise - 15 March 1820: Maine enters the Union - 22 March 1820: American naval hero killed in duel (Stephen Decatur) - 26 Sept 1820: The famous frontiersman Daniel Boone dies in Missouri - 20 Nov 1820: American vessel sunk by sperm whale - 26 Dec 1820: Moses Austin asks Spanish for Texas colony - |
| =1821 |
- 5 May 1821:
Napoleon dies in exile -
Link, - 24 Aug 1821: Spain accepts Mexican Independence - |
| =1822 |
- 27 April 1822: President Ulysses S. Grant is born - 30 Sept 1822: Joseph Marion Hernández becomes the first Hispanic elected to Congress - |
| =1823 |
- 2 Dec 1823: Monroe Doctrine declared - |
| =1824 |
- 19 April 1824: Lord Byron dies in Greece - 7 May 1824: Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 debuts - 1 Dec 1824: Presidential Election goes to the House of Representatives - Link, - |
| =1825 |
- 9 Feb 1825: Presidential Election decided in the
House of Representatives - 26 Oct 1925: Erie Canal Opens Link, - |
| =1826 |
- 4 Feb 1826: "The Last of the Mohicans" is
published - 5 Feb 1826: Millard Fillmore marries Abigail Powers - 4 July 1826: Thomas Jefferson and John Adams die - |
| =1827 |
- 27 Feb 1827: New Orleanians take to the streets
for Mardi Gras - 19 Sept 1827: Jim Bowie stabs a Louisiana banker with his famous knife - |
| =1828 |
- 14 Apr 1828: Webster’s American Dictionary of the
English Language is printed - 25 Feb 1828: John Quincy Adams' son marries relative at the White House (John Adams marries 1st cousin Mary Catherine Helen) - 22 Sept 1828: Shaka Zulu assassinated - |
| =1829 |
- 4 March 1829: President Andrew Jackson holds "Open
House" at the White House - 27 March 1829: President Jackson appoints John Eaton as secretary of war and starts scandal - 27 June 1829: English Scientist James Smithson establishes the Smithsonian Institution - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/smithsons-curious-bequest - |
| =1830 |
- 6 Apr 1830:
Mormon Church Established - The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints established - 28 May 1830: Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act into law - 10 Dec 1830: Emily Dickinson is born - |
| =1831 |
- 15 Jan 1831: "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" is
finished - 27 May 1831: Comanche kill mountain man Jedediah Smith - 3 July 1831: James Monroe died in New York City at age 73 - 21 Aug 1831: Slave Revolt erupts in Virginia (Nat Turner) - History.com, - 11 Nov 1831: Nat Turner executed in Virginia - History.com, - 27 Dec 1831: HMS Beagle (Charles Darwin) Departs England - Link, - |
| =1832 |
- 12 Jan 1832: Hattie Wyatt Caraway becomes first
woman elected to US Senate - 6 April 1832: Black Hawk War begins - - 25 July 1832: First Railroad Accident (Granite Railway near Quincy, Massachusetts) - - History.com, - 28 Dec 1832: John C. Calhoun resigns vice presidency _ |
| =1833 |
- 6 June 1833 President Jackson rides the Iron
Horse - 20 Aug 1833: Benjamin Harrison is Born - 10 Sept 1833: Andrew Jackson shuts down Second Bank of the US - |
| =1834 |
- 3 Jan 1834: Stephen Austin imprisoned by Mexicans - 28 March 1834: Congress censures President Jackson - 10 Apr 1834: Arson uncovers torture chamber in mansion of New Orleans enslaver |
| =1835 |
- 8 Jan 1835: The US national debt reaches $0 for
the first time -
Link, - 30 Jan 1835: Andrew Jackson narrowly escapes assassination - 25 Aug 1835: "The Great Moon Hoax" is published in the "New York Sun" - 2 Oct 1835: First shots of the Texas Revolution fired in the Battle of Gonzales - 17 Oct 1835: The first resolution formally creating the Texas Rangers is approved - 30 Nov 1835: Mark Twain is born - Link, - 9 Dec 1835: The Texan Army captures San Antonio - Link, - |
| =1836 |
- 24 Feb 1836: Alamo defenders call for help - 2 March 1836: Texas declares independence - History.com, - 6 March 1836: The Battle of the Alamo comes to an end - 13 March 1836: Sam Houston retreats from Santa Anna's army - 27 March 1836: Mexican army executes 417 Texas revolutionaries at Goliad - 21 April 1836: Texas militia routs Mexicans in the Battle of San Jacinto - 19 May 1836: Young Texan girl kidnapped during Native American raid - 28 June 1836: Former president James Madison dies - - 5 Sept 1836: Sam Houston Elected as President of Texas - History.com, - 2 Oct 1836: Darwin returns to England - Link, - 17 Oct 1836: The first resolution formally creating the Texas Rangers is approved - 15 Dec 1836: Patent Office Fire https://unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov/2018/12/13/recalling-the-devastating-patent-office-fire-of-1836/ - 20 Dec 1836: Andrew Jackson submits Indian treaty to Congress - |
| =1837 |
- 30 Apr 1837: Emanuel Warthan:
Born, Somerset, Perry County, Ohio -
Link,
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| =1838 |
- 6 Jan 1838: Samuel Morse unveils the telegraph,
revolutionizing communication - 12 Jan 1838: Joseph Smith (Mormon Leader) abandons Ohio - Link, - 26 Jan1838: Tennessee passes nation's first prohibition law - Link, - |
| =1839 |
- 5 March 1839: Charlotte Brontë declines marriage - 23 March 1839: "OK" enters national vernacular - 2 July 1839: Mutiny on the Amistad - 17 Nov 1839: Verdi's first opera opens - 3 Dec1839: Lincoln reaches legal milestone (he is admitted to practice law in the U.S. Circuit Court) - History.com, |
| =1840 |
- 19 Jan 1840: Charles Wilkes claims portion of
Antarctica for U.S. - 22 Jan 1840: British colonists reach New Zealand - 24 Feb 1840: John Quincy Adams begins arguments in Amistad case - |
| =1841 |
- 3 Jan 1841:
Herman Melville sails for the South Seas -
Link, - 20 Jan 1841: Hong Kong ceded to the British - 24 Feb 1841: John Quincy Adams begins arguments in Amistad case - 9 Mar 1841: Supreme Court rules on Amistad slave ship mutiny case- History.com, - 4 April 1841: President William Henry Harrison dies of pneumonia after 32 days in office - Link, - 6 April 1841: John Tyler is inaugurated as 10th president - 20 April 1841: - First detective story is published - Link, - Edgar Allen Poe’s story, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, first appears in Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine. The tale is generally considered to be the first detective story. - 16 Aug 1841: President Tyler is burned in effigy outside White House, Link, - |
| =1842 | -
13 Jan 1843: After massacre, sole surviving British
soldier escapes Kabul - 14 Feb 1842: Joshua F. Piles: Born, Lewisburg, Preble County, Ohio - Link, - 4 Nov 1842: Abraham Lincoln marries Mary Todd - Link, - |
| =1843 |
- 10 Jan 1843: Outlaw Frank James born in Missouri - 29 Jan 1843: Future president William McKinley is born - 7 May 1843: First Japanese immigrant arrives in the U.S. - 22 May 1843: A thousand pioneers head West as part of the Great Emigration - 29 May 1843: Fremont begins his second western expedition - - 19 Dec 1843: "A Christmas Carol" is published - |
| =1844 |
- 27 Feb 1844: Dominican Republic declares
independence as a sovereign state - 28 Feb 1844: President John Tyler narrowly escapes death on the USS Princeton, on the Potomac River - Link, - 24 May 1844: Samuel Morse demonstrates the telegraph with the message, "What hath God wrought?" - 26 June 1844: President John Tyler Weds his second wife - Link, - 27 June 1844: Mormon Leader Joseph Smith killed by mob - History.com, - 8 Aug 1844: Brigham Young chosen to lead Mormon Church - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/brigham-young-chosen-to-lead-mormon-church - 6 Sept 1844: John C. Fremont reaches the Great Salt Lake - Link, - 3 Nov 1844: William Makepeace Thackeray completes his novel "Barry Lyndon" - |
| =1845 |
- 29 Jan 1845: "The Raven" is published - 3 March 1845: Congress overrides presidential veto for first time - Link, - 8 June 1845: Andrew Jackson died, Nashville, TN - 16 Sept 1845: Suspected Christian spy is murdered - 10 Oct 1845: Birth of the U.S. Naval Academy - Link, - 13 Oct 1845: Texans ratify a state constitution and approve annexation - Link, - 29 Dec 1845: Texas enters the Union - History.com, - |
| =1846 |
- 5 Jan 1846:
House resolves to stop sharing Oregon with the British -
History.com, - 10 Feb 1846: Mormons begin exodus to Utah - History.com, - 8 May 1846: Future president Zachary Taylor fights the Battle of Palo Alto - 13 May 1846: President Polk declares war on Mexico - History.com, - 14 June 1846: California's Bear Flag Revolt begins - 15 June 1846: US-Canadian border established - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-canadian-border-established - 7 July 1846: US annexation of California - 9 July 1846: US takes San Francisco from Mexico - 3 Aug 1846: Donner Party encounters first delay - Link, - 10 Aug 1846: Smithsonian Institution Created - History.com, - 12 Sept 1846: Poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning elope - 18 Sept 1846: Struggling Donner Party sends ahead to California for food - Link, - 23 Sept 1846: 8th Planet (Neptune) Discovered - History.com, - |
| =1847 |
- 4 Jan 1847:
Samuel Colt sells his first revolvers to the U.S. Government -
History.com, - 2 Feb 1847: First Donner Party member dies - Link, - 19 Feb 1847: Donner Party Rescued from the Sierra Nevada Mountains - History.com, - 22 Feb 1847: Battle of Buena Vista Begins (Mexican-American War) - 24 July 1847: Mormons settle Salt Lake Valley - History.com, - 26 July 1847: Liberian Independence Proclaimed - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/liberian-independence-proclaimed - 5 Sept 1847: Outlaw Jesse James is born in Missouri - 6 Sept 1847: Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden and moves in with the Emersons - Link, - 14 Sept 1847: General Winfield Scott captures Mexico City - Link, - 16 Oct 1847: Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre" is published in London - |
| =1848 |
- 24 Jan 1848:
Gold discovered at Sutter's Creek, California -
History.com, - 2 Feb 1848: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed, ending the Mexican-American War - 16 Feb 1848: Chopin plays his final Paris Concert - History.com, - 21 Feb 1848: - John Quincy Adams suffers a stroke - History.com, - Karl Marx publishes Communist Manifesto - 29 May 1848: Wisconsin Enters the Union - History.com, - 19 July 1848: Seneca Falls Convention begins - 22 Aug 1848: Ulysses S. Grant Marries - History.com, |
| =1849 |
- 23 Jan 1849:
Elizabeth Blackwell, First Woman M.D. -
History.com, - 10 Apr 1849: Safety pin is patented, rights sold for just $400 - 16 May 1849: NYC establishes hospital for cholera victims - Link, - 16 Nov 1849: Fyodor Dostoevsky is sentenced to death - 24 Nov 1849: John Froelich, inventor of the gas-powered tractor, is born - 22 Dec 1849: Fyodor Dostoevsky spared from execution - Link, - |
| =1850 |
- 16 March 1850: "The Scarlet Letter" is published - 9 July 1850: President Zachary Taylor dies of cholera - History.com, - 10 July 1850: Millard Fillmore sworn in as 13th US president - Link, - 1 Sept 1850: P.T. Barnum brings European opera star Jenny Lind to New York - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/p-t-barnum-brings-jenny-lind-to-new-york - 9 Sept 1850: California becomes the 31st State in record Time - History.com, - 23 Oct 1850: The first National Women’s Rights Convention begins - |
| =1851 |
- 22 Feb 1851: San Francisco vigilantes take the law
into their own hands - 1 May 1851: First-ever "Great Exhibition" opens in London - 29 May 1851: Sojourner Truth delivers powerful speech on African American women's rights - 22 Aug 1851: US wins first America's Cup - 11 Sept 1851: The Christiana Riot - 14 Nov 1851: Moby-Dick Published - History.com, - 24 Dec 1851: Fire Ravages Library of Congress (Fire destroys Thomas Jefferson library) - History.com, - |
| =1852 |
- 18 March 1852:
Wells and Fargo start shipping and Banking Company -
History.com, - 20 March 1852: Uncle Tom's Cabin is published - History.com, - 1 May 1852: Adventurer and performer Calamity Jane is born - 7 July 1852: Birthday of Sherlock Holmes' sidekick, Dr. Watson - History.com, - 11 Nov 1852: Louisa May Alcott publishes her first story - 30 Dec 1852: Rutherford B. Hayes Marries Lucy Webb - Link, |
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=1853 |
- 8 July 1853: Commodore Perry sails into Tokyo Bay - 25 July 1853: California Rangers kill Joaquin Murrieta - 20 Oct 1853: French poet Arthur Rimbaud is born - 25 Oct 1853: Native Americans attack transcontinental railroad survey crew in Utah - 30 Dec 1853: Southern Border of U.S. established - History.com, - |
| =1854 | -
20 March 1854: Republican Party
formed -
History.com, - 31 March 1854: US and Japan sign Treaty of Kanagawa - 29 Apr 1854: First African-American College Chartered (Ashmum Institute, Chester County, PA) - Link - 30 May 1854: Kansas-Nebraska Act - CivilWar.org, - - 9 Aug 1854: Henry David Thoreau's "Walden" is published - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/henry-david-thoreau-walden-published - 27 Sept 1854: Ships collide off Newfoundland, killing 322 - 16 Oct 1854: - Lincoln speaks out against slavery - History.com, - Celebrated writer Oscar Wilde is born - 20 Oct 1854: French poet Arthur Rimbaud is born - 25 Oct 1854: Charge of the Light Brigade - 9 Dec 1854: "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred Lord Tennyson is published - |
| =1855 |
- 23 Jan 1855: Gun designer John Browning is born - 30 March 1855: Violence disrupts first Kansas election - 4 July 1855: First Edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass is Published - History.com, - 3 Sept 1855: U.S. Army avenges the Grattan Massacre - Link, - 23 Oct 1855: Rival governments in bleeding Kansas - History.com, - |
| =1856 |
- 18 Feb 1856:
Know-Nothings convene in Philadelphia -
History.com, - 22 May 1856: Southern congressman beats Northern senator with a cane in the halls of Congress - 9 June 1856: Mormon handcart pioneers depart for Salt Lake City - 19 June 1856: First Republican National Convention Ends - Link, - 23 Aug 1856: Eunice Foote’s research on global warming is presented publicly - 17 Nov 1856: US establishes Fort Buchanan (Southern Arizona) - History.com, - 28 Dec 1856: Woodrow Wilson born in Staunton, Virginia - |
| =1857 |
- 6 March 1857: Supreme
Court rules in Dred Scott case -
History.com, - 11 Sept 1857: Mormons and Paiutes murder 120 emigrants at Mountain Meadows, Utah - History.com, - 15 Sept 1857: Future President William Taft born - |
| =1858 |
- 11 Feb 1858: St. Bernadette claims to see the Virgin Mary - 12 Apr 1858: First Gentile Governor arrives in Utah - Link, - 11 May 1858: Minnesota enters the Union as the 32nd state - History.com, - 16 June 1858: Lincoln warns that America is becoming a "House Divided" - History.com, - 5 Aug 1858: First transatlantic telegraph cable completed - History.com, - 21 Aug 1858: Lincoln-Douglas Debates Begin - History.com, - - 15 Sept 1858: The first transcontinental mail service to San Francisco begins - History.com, - 27 Oct 1858: Teddy Roosevelt Born - History.com, - 29 Oct 1858: The first store opens in the frontier town of Denver, Colorado - Link, - 11 Nov 1858: James Garfield marries Lucretia Rudolph - Link - |
| =1859 |
- 5 Apr 1859:
Darwin sends first three chapters of The Origin of the
Species to his publisher -
History.com, - 9 Apr 1859: Mark Twain receives steamboat pilot's license - History.com, - 25 Apr 1859: Ground broken for Suez Canal - Link, - 22 May 1859: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Creator of Sherlock Holmes, is born - 31 May 1859: Big Ben goes into operation in London, England - History.com, - 30 June 1859: Daredevil (Frenchman Jean Francois Gravelet) crosses Niagara Falls on tightrope - History.com, - 16 Oct 1859: John Brown raids Harpers Ferry - CivilWar.org, - 18 Oct 1859: U.S. Marines capture John Brown - CivilWar.org, - 15 Nov 1859: Final installment of "A Tale of Two Cities" is published - 23 Nov 1859: Legendary outlaw Billy the Kid is born - 24 Nov 1859: "Origin of Species" is Published - History.com, - 2 Dec 1859: John Brown is hanged for murder and treason - History.com, - |
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| Color Legend | Enos Hiatt | John Milton Piles | Joshua F. Piles | Emanuel Warthan |
| =1860 | |
| 1860 | -
14 Jan 1860: House Committee
proposes amendment to protect slavery -
History.com, - 27 Feb 1860: Matthew Brady photographs Presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln - History.com, - 3 Apr 1860: The First Pony Express Mail, traveling by horse, leaves St. Joseph, Missouri - History.com, - 18 May 1860: Abraham Lincoln nominated for presidency at Republican Convention - 13 Aug 1860: Annie Oakley Born - History.com, - 18 Oct 1860: Peking's Summer Palace destroyed - 6 Nov 1860: Abraham Lincoln elected 16th President of the United States - CivilWar.org, - 20 Dec 1860: South Carolina secedes from the Union - CivilWar.org, - 26 Dec 1860: Union Maj. General Robert Anderson evacuates Ft. Moultrie for Ft. Sumter in Charleston Harbor - - |
| Before 1860 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 + |
| Color Legend | Enos Hiatt | John Milton Piles | Joshua F. Piles | Emanuel Warthan |
| =1861 | |
| Jan 1861 | -
3 Jan 1861: Delaware rejects
secession -
History.com, - 5 Jan 1861: Star of the West leaves for Fort Sumter - History.com, - 9 Jan 1861: - Mississippi secedes from the Union - - Star of the West is fired upon - History.com, - 10 Jan 1861: - Florida secedes from the Union - - William Seward is named secretary of State - History.com, - 11 Jan 1861: - Alabama secedes from the Union - - Lincoln leaves Springfield - History.com, - 16 Jan 1861: Crittenden Compromise is killed in Senate - 19 Jan 1861: Georgia secedes from the Union - - 26 Jan 1861: Louisiana secedes from the Union - - 29 Jan 1861: Kansas enters the Union as a free state - History.com, - |
| Feb 1861 | -
1 Feb 1861: Texas Secedes from the
Union -
History.com, - 4 Feb 1861: Provisional Confederate Congress Convenes - States meet to form Confederacy- History.com, - 9 Feb 1861: Jefferson Davis elected Provisional President of Confederacy - - 10 Feb 1861: Jefferson Davis learns he is President of Confederacy - History.com, - 11 Feb 1861: President-Elect Lincoln leaves Springfield - History.com, - 13 Feb 1861: First Medal of Honor action - History.com, - 18 Feb 1861: Davis becomes provisional president of the Confederacy - History.com, - 23 Feb 1861: President-Elect Lincoln arrives in Washington - History.com, - 28 Feb 1861: Congress Creates Colorado Territory - History.com, |
| March 1861 | -
2 March 1861: Texas secedes - 4 March 1861: Abraham Lincoln inaugurated President of the United States - History.com, - 11 March 1861: Confederate constitution adopted - History.com, - 20 March 1861: Willie and Tad Lincoln get the measles - History.com, - |
| April 1861 |
-
12 Apr 1861:
Civil War Begins - Confederates in
Charleston bombard Ft. Sumter -
CivilWar.org,
- 13 Apr 1861: Union forces surrender at Fort Sumter - CivilWar.org, - 19 Apr 1861: Lincoln declares blockade from South Carolina to Texas | Baltimore Citizens attack Union troops - First blood in the Civil War - 20 Apr 1861: Robert E. Lee resigns from U.S. Army after Virginia secedes from Union - 22 Apr 1861: Robert E. Lee becomes commander of Virginia Forces - - |
| May 1861 | -
6 May 1861: Arkansas and Tennessee
secede from the Union - - 14 May 1861: William Fetterman joins the U.S. Army - - 18 May 1861: Newspaper prints scathing report about First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln - 20 May 1861: North Carolina secedes from the Union | Kentucky declares Neutrality | Richmond, Virginia is named new Confederate capital | - 25 May 1861: President Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus during the Civil War - - 27 May 1861President Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus is challenged - |
| June 1861 | - |
| July 1861 | -
5 July 1861: Union and Confederates
forces clash at Carthage, Missouri -
History.com, - 11 July 1861: Union victory at the Battle of Rich Mountain - History.com, - 12 July 1861: - Confederacy signs treaties with Native Americans - History.com, | - Wild Bill Hickok's first gunfight - History.com, | - 13 July 1861: Union routs Confederates at the Battle of Corrick's Ford, Virginia - History.com, - 21 July 1861: Battle: Manassas (Bull Run), Virginia - History.com, | Confederate Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson earns his nickname | - 25 July 1861: Maj. Gen. George McClellan named first Union Commander | President Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus during the Civil War - History.com, | Congress passes Crittenden-Johnson Resolution - History.com, - |
| Aug 1861 |
- 3 Aug 1861:
The last installment of Great
Expectations by Charles Dickens is published -
History.com, - 5 Aug 1861: President Lincoln imposes first federal income tax - History.com, - 10 Aug 1861: Confederates defeat Union force at the battle of Wilson's Creek, Missouri - History.com, - 15 Aug 1961: Union General Robert Anderson named Dept. of Kentucky Commander - History.com, - 23 Aug 1861: Confederate Spy Rose Greenhow is arrested - History.com, - 27 Aug 1861: The attack on Cape Hatteras, North Carolina begins - History.com, |
| Fall 1861 | - John Milton Piles: 71st OVI organized at Troy, Miami County, Ohio - S4 p 52 | |
| Sept 1861 | -
3 Sept 1861: Confederate forces
enter Kentucky -
History.com, - 5 Sept 1861: Joshua F. Piles: Entered service in Co. C, 44th Ohio Inf. - Link, Service Record | - 10 Sept 1861: Battle at Carnifex Ferry, Virginia - History.com, - 11 Sept 1861: Confederates begin Cheat Mountain Campaign - History.com, - 12 Sept 1861: First Battle of Lexington, Missouri begins - History.com, - |
| Oct 1861 |
- 2 Oct 1861:
Union leader Fremont is removed from the Western Department -
History.com, - 4 Oct 1861: President Lincoln watches a balloon ascension - History.com, - 21 Oct 1861: Battle: Bulls Bluff (Leesburg) Virginia - History.com, - 24 Oct 1861: Western Union completes the first transcontinental telegraph line - History.com, - 25 Oct 1861: Keel of the USS Monitor is laid - History.com, - 30 Oct 1861: John Milton Piles: Entered service in Co. E, 71st OVI - Link, Link page 1, Col. 2, - 31 Oct 1861: Winfield Scott steps down - History.com, |
| Nov 1861 | -
1 Nov 1861: George McClellan
becomes General-in-Chief of U.S. Army replacing Winfield Scott -
History.com, - 2 Nov 1861: Union leader Fremont is removed from the Western Department - History.com, - 6 Nov 1861: Jefferson Davis elected president of the Confederacy - History.com, - 7 Nov 1861: Battle of Belmont, Missouri - History.com, - 13 Nov 1861: Union General McClellan snubs President Lincoln - History.com, - 21 Nov 1861: Judah Benjamin becomes Confederate Secretary of War - History.com, - 28 Nov 1861: John Milton Piles: Enrolled as a private in Co. E, 71st OVI Link, - Description: 5'5", Fair Complexion, Hazel eyes, Brown hair, Occupation: Farmer - |
| Nov/Dec 1861 | Joshua F. Piles: Reported absent, sick in Hospital at Camp Piatt, West Virginia - Service Record | |
| Dec 1861 | -
3 Dec 1861: Delaware rejects secession - 6 Dec 1861: John Milton Piles: Letter to his sweetheart Sarah Elizabeth Hamilton - John was at Camp Dave Todd, Ohio - Link, - 9 Dec 1861: Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War created - History.com, - 21 Dec 1861: Trent Crisis Escalates - History.com, - 26 Dec 1861: Possible war between U.S. and Britain is averted (Mason and Slidell Freed) - History.com, - |
| Before 1860 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 + |
| Color Legend | Enos Hiatt | John Milton Piles | Joshua F. Piles | Emanuel Warthan |
| =1862 | |
| Jan/Feb 1862 | Joshua F. Piles: Home on sick furlough - Service Record | |
| Jan 1862 | -
18 Jan 1862: Former U.S. President
and Confederate congressman-elect John Tyler dies -
History.com, - 19 Jan 1862: Union defeat Confederates at the Battle of Logan's Cross Roads, Kentucky - History.com, - 24 Jan 1862: Author Edith Wharton is born - 27 Jan 1862: President Lincoln orders Union forces to advance - 30 Jan 1862: USS Monitor launched - |
| Feb 1862 | John Milton Piles: 71st OVI moved to Paducah, Kentucky S4 p 52 | |
| Feb 1862 | -
6 Feb 1862: Gen. U.S. Grant
captures Fort Henry, Tennessee - 7 Feb 1862: Rebel reinforcements ordered to Tennessee's Fort Donelson - History.com,, - 8 Feb 1862: Union Troops capture Roanoke Island, North Carolina - History.com, - 16 Feb 1862: Fort Donnelson, Tennessee surrenders to Gen. U.S. Grant - History.com, - 21 Feb 1862: North and South clash at the Battle of Val Verde - History.com, - 22 Feb 1862: Jefferson Davis inaugurated President of Confederate States of America - - 25 Feb 1862: U.S. Congress passes Legal Tender Act, Legal Tender Act passed to help finance the Civil War - History.com, - 26 Feb 1862: Rhodes describes life as a Union soldier - History.com, |
| abt March 1862 | John Milton Piles: 71st OVI Moved to Pittsberg Landing, Tennessee S4 p 53 | |
| March 1862 | - 7
March 1862: Battle of Pea Ridge
(Elkhorn Tavern), Arkansas -
History.com, - 8 March 1862: C.S.S. Virginia terrorizes Union Navy - History.com, - 9 March 1862: USS Monitor and CSS Virginia battle - History.com, - 11 March 1862: Lincoln Relieves McClellan as General-in-Chief of United States Army - History.com, - 14 March 1862: Yankees capture New Bern, North Carolina - History.com, - 23 March 1862: Confederates suffer defeat at the First Battle of Kernstown - History.com, - 24 March 1862: Abolitionist orator Wendell Phillips booed in Cincinnati - History.com, - 28 March 1862: Union turn back Confederates at the Battle of Glorieta Pass - History.com, - |
| Apr 1862 | - 5
Apr 1862: Siege of Yorktown
begins -
History.com, - 6-7 Apr 1862: Battle of Shiloh (Pittsburg Landing), Tennessee - Union Victory at high cost - Wikipedia | Shiloh Nat. Park | History.com | S4 p 53 | - 6 Apr to 1 June 1862: John Milton Piles: Sick with cold, cough and lung problems - in Regimental Hospital - Caleb Worley Affidavit, 23 Feb 1893 | Eli Wallace Affidavit, 3 March 1890 | - 10 Apr 1862: John Milton Piles: Letter from John to his sweetheart Sarah Elizabeth Hamilton - Pittsberg Landing, Harding County, Tennessee - Link, - 11 Apr 1862: Confederates surrender Fort Pulaski, Georgia - Link, - 16 Apr 1862: John Milton Piles: Co. E and five others of the 71st OVI reassigned to Clarksville, Montgomery County, Tennessee S4 p 58 | S2 p 82 | - - Left their camp at Pittsberg Landing about 4pm S2 p 82 | - 18 Apr 1862: John Milton Piles: Co. E and five others of the 71st OVI surrendered to Confederates and paroled S2 p 82 | - - Sent north to Fort Chase, Ohio to serve their parole until exchanged - 29 Apr 1862: Union captures New Orleans - History.com, - |
| May 1862 | -
5 May 1862: Outnumbered Mexican army defeats French at
Battle of Puebla - 12 May 1862: John Milton Piles: Letter from Sarah Elizabeth Hamilton to her sweetheart John Milton Piles - Sent from Pyrmont, Montgomery County, Ohio - Link, - 13 May 1862: Grant moves on Jackson Mississippi - History.com, - 20 May 1862: Union Congress passes, and President Lincoln signs, the Homestead Act - History.com, - 25 May 1862: Confederates score a victory at First Battle of Winchester, Virginia - History.com, - 30 May 1862: Confederates evacuate Corinth, Mississippi - History.com, - 31 May 1862: Yankees and Rebels clash at the Battle of Seven Pines (Seven Oaks) - History.com, |
| June 1862 | 1
June 1862: General Robert E. Lee
takes command of the Army of Northern Virginia - - 4 June 1862: Confederates evacuate Fort Pillow - History.com, - 6 June 1862: Union claims Memphis in naval Battle - History.com, - 8 June 1862: Confederates score victory at the Battle of Cross Keys - History.com, - 12 June 1862: - J.E.B. Stuart rides around the Union army - History.com, - Medal of Honor created - History.com, - 16 June 1862: Union thwarted at the Battle of Secessionville, South Carolina - History.com, - 22 July 1862: Lincoln tells his cabinet about Emancipation Proclamation - History.com, - 23 June 1862: Lee confers with his generals before the Seven Days' Battles - History.com, - 24 June 1862: Lincoln consults Winfield Scott - History.com, - 26 June 1862: Rebels strike Union at the Battle of Mechanicsville, Virginia - History.com, - 28 June 1862: Confederates capture a commercial ship - History.com, - 29 June 1862: - Confederates attack Yankees at the Battle of Savage's Station, Virginia - History.com, - Confederate spy Belle Boyd is captured - Wikipedia - - 30 June 1862: Fighting continues in the Seven Days' Battles - History.com, |
| June-Dec 1862 |
John Milton Piles: Sent home on Sick
Furlough
Caleb Worley Affidavit, 23 Feb 1893 |
"On his return to the regiment he wore glasses and his eyes were inflamed and watery" |
| July 1862 |
- 6 July 1862:
Mark Twain begins reporting in Virginia City -
History.com, - 8 July to 4 Aug 1862: John Milton Piles: treated for pneumonia and returned to duty Link page 1, Col. 3, - 12 July 1862: Medal of Honor Created - History.com, - 14 July 1862: U.S. Senate recognizes the state of West Virginia - - 15 July 1862: CSS Arkansas attacks Union Ships - History.com, - 21 July 1862: Former President Martin Van Buren lapses into a coma - History.com, - 22 July 1862: - John Milton Piles: Letter from Sarah Elizabeth Hamilton to her sweetheart John Milton Piles - Sent from Pyrmont, Montgomery County, Ohio - Link, - Lincoln tells his cabinet about Emancipation Proclamation - History.com, - 23 July 1862: Halleck takes command of the Union Army - History.com, - 29 July 1862: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is captured - History.com - |
| Aug 1862 | -
6 Aug 1862: Confederate ship,
C.S.S. Arkansas, blown up by crew -
History.com, - 9 Aug 1862: Rebels score narrow victory at the Battle of Cedar Mountain in Virginia - History.com, - 12 Aug 1862: John Hunt Morgan captures a Federal garrison at Gallatin, Tennessee - History.com, - 14 Aug 1862: Confederate invasion of Kentucky begins - History.com - 17 Aug 1862: Dakota uprising begins in Minnesota - History.com, - 19 Aug 1862: Dakota Indians bypass Fort Ridgely - History.com, - 20 Aug 1862: Horace Greeley's "The Prayer of Twenty Millions" is published - History.com, - 22 Aug 1862: Lincoln replies to Horace Greeley - History.com, - 26 Aug 1862: Second Bull Run Campaign begins - History.com, - 29 Aug 1862: Battle: Second Manassas (Bull Run), Virginia begins - History.com, - 30 Aug 1862: - John Milton Piles: Absent on Furlough - Link page 1, Col. 2, - Confederates rout Yankees at the Battle of Richmond, Kentucky - History.com, - |
| Sept 1862 | -
1 Sept 1862: Battle of Chantilly,
Virginia -
History.com, - 2 Sept 1862: Union general George B. McClellan is restored to full command - 13 Sept 1862: Union troops discover Confederate's Antietam battle plan - History.com, - 14 Sept 1862: North and South clash at the Battle of South Mountain in Maryland - 15 Sept 1862: Confederates capture Harper's Ferry, Virginia - History.com, - 17 Sept 1862: Battle: Antietam (Sharpsburg), Maryland - History.com, - 18 Sept 1862: McClellan lets Lee retreat from Antietam - History.com - 19 Sept 1862: Union forces defeat Confederates at the Battle of Luka, Mississippi - History.com, - - 22 Sept 1862: Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation - History.com, - 23 Sept 1862: Leo Tolstoy marries Sophie Andreyevna Behrs - Link, - |
| Oct 1862 | -
3 Oct 1862: Battle of Corinth,
Mississippi -
History.com, - 8 Oct 1862: Battle of Perryville (Chaplin Hills), Kentucky - History.com, - 10 Oct 1862: Confederate General Magruder is sent to Texas - History.com - 11 Oct 1862: Confederates raid Chambersburg, Pennsylvania - History.com, - 24 Oct 1862: Union General Don Carlos Buell is replaced by William Rosecrans - History.com, - 30 Oct 1862: Union General Ormsby MacKnight Mitchell dies - History.com, |
| Nov 1862 | -
5 Nov 1862: - George McClellan replaced by Burnside as commander of the Army of the Potomac - History.com, - 300 Santee Sioux sentenced to hang in Minnesota - History.com, - 9 Nov 1862: Burnside assumes command of the Union Army of the Potomac - History.com, - 14 Nov 1862: Lincoln approves Burnside's plan to capture Richmond - History.com, - 26 Nov 1862: Alice in Wonderland manuscript is sent as a Christmas present - History.com - 28 Nov 1862: North and South skirmish at the Battle of Cane Hill, Arkansas - History.com, |
| Dec 1862 | -
1 Dec 1862: President Lincoln
gives State of the Union address -
History.com, - 7 Dec 1862: Battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas - History.com, - 11 Dec 1862: Union occupies Fredericksburg, Virginia - History.com, - 13 Dec 1862: Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia - History.com, - 17 Dec 1862: Union General Ulysses S. Grant expels Jews from his military district - 18 Dec 1862: Battle of Lexington, Tennessee - Confederate victory - History.com, - 20 Dec 1862: Confederates raid Union supply depot at Holly Springs, Mississippi - History.com, - 23 Dec 1862: Confederate President Jefferson Davis declares Union general Benjamin Butler a felon - History.com, - 25 Dec 1862: Union soldier Elisha Hunt Rhodes writes about Christmas - History.com, - 29 Dec 1862: Battle of Chickasaw Bluffs (Confederate victory) - History.com, - 30 Dec 1862: U.S.S. Monitor sinks - History.com, - 31 Dec 1862: - Battle of Stones River - Near Murfreesboro, Tennessee - - Confederate General Forrest escapes capture at Parker's Crossroads, Tennessee - History.com, |
| Before 1860 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 + |
| Color Legend | Enos Hiatt | John Milton Piles | Joshua F. Piles | Emanuel Warthan |
| =1863 | |
| Jan 1863 | -
1 Jan 1863: - Emancipation Proclamation Signed by President Abraham Lincoln - History.com - A Nebraska farmer files the first homestead claim - History.com, - 2 Jan 1863: Battle of Stones River (Murfreesboro), Tennessee concludes with Union Victory - History.com, - 4 Jan 1863: Confederate General Roger Hanson dies of wounds suffered at Battle of Stones River, TN - History.com, - 7 Jan to 9 May 1863: John Milton Piles Charley Schreel's Book: Diary (71st OVI) S5, - Possibly John is a part of this group: page 206, 7 May 1863 "Cousin Harrison and I and two other men of our mess got a pass to go through the picket line. We were out some 5 miles. We had a very fine dinner at Doctor Smith's and from there we visited several families and we had a very; fine time with them. We got to camp at dusk. - 11 Jan 1863: Union captures Confederate stronghold in Arkansas, battle of Arkansas Post - History.com - 20 Jan 1863: Union General Burnside's troops get bogged down in mud - History.com, - 21 Jan 1863: Confederates recapture Sabine Pass, Texas - History.com, - 22 Jan 1863: Gen. Ambrose Burnside's "Mud March" ends in failure - - 25 Jan 1863: U.S. Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker takes command of the Army of the Potomac, Gen. Burnside relieved of duty - History.com, - |
| Feb 1863 | - |
| March 1863 | -
3 March 1863: Congress passes Civil War Conscription Act
and; Lincoln signs first
conscription Act -
History.com, - 17 March 1863: Battle of Kelly's Ford, Virginia - History.com, - 21 March 1863: Union General Edwin V. Sumner dies - History.com, |
| Apr 1863 | -
2 Apr 1863: Richmond riots over
food shortages -
History.com, - 16 Apr 1863: Union Ships pass Vicksburg - History.com, - 21 Apr 1863: Union Colonel Abel Streight's raid into Alabama and Georgia begins - 22 Apr 1863: Union raid cuts Mississippi telegraph wires - History.com, - 24 Apr 1863: Union issues conduct code for soldiers - History.com, - 29 April 1863: Newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst is born - |
| May 1863 | -
1 May 1863: Battle of
Chancellorsville begins - Near Fredericksburg, Virginia -
History.com, - 2 May 1863: Confederates deliver blow to Union at Chancellorsville - History.com, - 3 May 1863: - Second Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia - History.com, - Confederates take Hazel Grove at Chancellorsville - History.com, - 10 May 1863: Confederate general Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson dies - 13 May 1863: Grant moves on Jackson, Mississippi - History.com, - 16 May 1863: Union wins the Battle of Champion Hill - History.com, Wikipedia, - 17 May 1863: Confederates defeated at the Battle of Big Black River - History.com, Wikipedia, - 18 May 1863: The siege of Vicksburg commences - History.com, - 19 May 1863: First assault on Vicksburg, Mississippi - 21 May 1863: The Siege of Port Hudson begins - History.com, - 24 May 1863: Henry Plummer is elected sheriff of Bannack, Montana - History.com, - 27 May 1863: Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus is challenged - History.com, - 28 May 1863: African-American regiment departs for combat - History.com, |
| June 1863 | -
7 June 1863: Confederates turned
back at Milliken's Bend -
History.com, - 9 June 1863: Cavalry forces clash at the Battle of Brandy Station - History.com, - 14 June 1863: Union defeated at the Second Battle of Winchester, Virginia - History.com, - 15 June 1863: Lincoln calls for help in protecting Washington, D. C. - History.com, - 20 June 1863: West Virginia joins the Union as 35th state - History.com, - 28 June 1863: Maj. Gen. George Meade replaces Joseph Hooker - head of the Army of the Potomac - |
| July 1863 |
1-3 July 1863: Battle of Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania -
History.com,
Pickett's Charge - - 4 July 1863: Confederates surrender Vicksburg, Mississippi - History.com, - 7 July 1863: Kit Carson's campaign against the Indians - History.com, - 8 July 1863: - Confederate General John Hunt Morgan crosses Ohio River into Indiana - Confederates surrender Port Hudson, Louisiana - History.com, - 9 July 1863: Battle of Corydon, Indiana - the only Civil War battle fought in Indiana - Wikipedia - - 9-17 July 1863: Great Grandfather George Foulke: Part of the Indiana Legion (109th Inf. Reg.) called to repel Confederate General John Hunt Morgan - - 10 July 1863: Siege on Battery Wagner (Near Charleston, South Carolina) begins - History.com, - 16 July 1863: Draft riots continue to rock New York City - History.com, - 18 July 1863: Assault of Battery Wagner and death of Robert Gould Shaw - History.com, - 19 July 1863: Morgan's raiders defeated at Buffington Island, Ohio - History.com, - 26 July 1863: Confederate General John Hunt Morgan captured at Salineville, Ohio - History.com, - 27 July 1863: Ardent secessionist William Lowndes Yancey dies - History.com, - 30 July 1863: Chief Pocatello signs peace treaty - History.com, - |
| Aug 1863 | -
8 Aug 1863: Robert E. Lee offers resignation as commander of
the Confederate army - 21 Aug 1863: Guerillas massacre residents of Lawrence, Kansas - History.com, |
| Sept 1863 | -
5 Sept 1863: U.S. foreign minister
threatens the British over ships -
History.com, - 6 Sept 1863: Confederates evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island, South Carolina - History.com, - 8 Sept 1863: Confederates thwart Yankees at the Second Battle of Sabine Pass, Texas - History.com, - 9 Sept 1863: Union captures Chattanooga - History.com, - 19-20 Sept 1863: Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia, Confederate Victory - History.com, - History.com, - 23 Sept 1863: Lincoln plans to send army to Chattanooga, Tennessee - History.com, - 28 Sept 1863: Union generals blamed for Chickamauga defeat - History.com, |
| Oct 1863 | -
3 Oct 1863: President Lincoln proclaims
official Thanksgiving Holiday - History.com, - 6 Oct 1863: Confederate guerillas attack Baxter Springs, Kansas, History.com, - 13 Oct 1863: Ohio voters reject Vallandigham - History.com, - 14 Oct 1863: Battle of Bristoe Station, Virginia - Union Victory - History.com, Wikipedia, - 15 Oct 1863: C.S.S. Hunley sinks during tests - History.com, - 16 Oct 1863: U.S. Grant named commander of Union Military Division of the Mississippi - 17 Oct 1863: Lincoln calls for 300,000 volunteers to join the U.S. Army - - 18 Oct 1863: Controversial Union General Sickles visits his troops - History.com, - 29 Oct 1863: The Battle of Wauhatchie (Brown's Ferry), Tennessee concludes - History.com, Wikipedia, |
| Nov 1863 | -
14 Nov 1863: Union repels
Confederate's at the Battle of Bristoe Station -
History.com, - 16 Nov 1863: Confederates fail to defeat Union at the Battle of Campbell Station, Tennessee - History.com, - 17 Nov 1863: The Siege of Knoxville, Tennessee begins - History.com, - 18 Nov 1863: Lincoln travels to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania - History.com, - 19 Nov 1863: Lincoln delivers Gettysburg Address - History.com, - 21 Nov 1863: John Milton Piles: Letter from John to his sweetheart Sarah Elizabeth Hamilton - Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee - Link, - 24 Nov 1863: Battle of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee - History.com, - 25 Nov 1863: Battle of Missionary Ridge, Tennessee - History.com, - 26 Nov 1863: Mine Run campaign begins in Virginia - History.com, - 27 Nov 1863: John Hunt Morgan escapes from the Ohio Penitentiary - History.com, |
| Dec 1863 | -
8 Dec 1863: Lincoln issues
Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction -
History.com, - 10 Dec 1863: Sherman arrives in front of Savannah, Georgia - History.com, - 14 Dec 1863: President Lincoln pardons his sister-in-law - History.com, - 16 Dec 1863: Confederate General Johnston named commander of Army of Tennessee - History.com, - |
| Before 1860 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 + |
| Color Legend | Enos Hiatt | John Milton Piles | Joshua F. Piles | Emanuel Warthan |
| =1864 | |
| 1864 | -
John Milton Piles:
Letter from John to his Wife Sarah Elizabeth Hamilton Piles -
Decheard, Franklin County, Tennessee -
Link, - John Milton Piles: Vaccination for smallpox while in Decheard, Franklin County, Tennessee - it did not take, he was vaccinated a second time and John suffered in his left arm as a result Link page 3-5, Eli Wallace Affidavit, 3 March 1890 | - Emanuel Warthan: Letter to his Parents - No Date or Location given - Link, - |
| Jan 1864 |
Jan 1864: Joshua
F. Piles: Enrolled as a Private in Co. G, 8th
Ohio Vol. Cav. (Reenlisted as a Veteran)
Link,
Service Record | - 6 Jan 1864: Former Lincoln cabinet member Caleb Smith dies - History.com, - 9 Jan 1864: U. S. Secretary of Interior Caleb Blood Smith Dies in Indianapolis - History.com, - 14 Jan 1864: John Milton Piles: Re-enlisted Link page 1, Col. 2, - - |
| Feb 1864 | -
9 Feb 1864: Union General George
Custer marries Elizabeth Bacon -
History.com, - 14 Feb 1864: Union General Sherman enters Meridian, Mississippi - History.com, - 17 Feb 1864: Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley sinks USS Housatonic - - 20 Feb 1864: Rebels defeat Yankees at the Battle of Olustee - History.com, - 22 Feb 1864: Battle of West Point, Mississippi (CSA Victory) - History.com, - 24 Feb 1864: Union attack Confederates near Dalton, Georgia - History.com, - 27 Feb 1864: - Emanuel Warthan: Enlisted in Union Army, Minnesota - Link, - Federal Prisoners begin arriving at Andersonville Prison - History.com,, - 28 Feb 1864: Union begins cavalry raid (Kilpatrick-Dahlgren) in Virginia - History.com, - 29 Feb 1864: Kilpatrick-Dahlgren raid splits - History.com, - Wikipedia - Encyclopedia Virginia, |
| March 1864 |
- 1 March 1864:
- Lincoln nominates Grant for Lieutenant General - History.com, - Rebecca Lee Crumpler becomes first Black woman to earn a medical degree - 5 March 1864: The Confederacy's Breckinridge assumes command in Virginia - History.com, - 8 March 1864: Emanuel Warthan: Letter to his Parents - Ft. Snelling, Hennepin County, Minnesota - Link, - 9 March 1864: U.S. Grant promoted to Lt. General - Fold3 Blog, - 10 March 1864: - Lincoln signs Ulysses S. Grant's commission to command the U.S. Army - History.com, - Montana Vigilantes hang Jack Slade - History.com, - 12 March 1864: Union's Red River Campaign begins in Louisiana - History.com, - 15 March 1864: Emanuel Warthan: Mustered into 3rd MVI, Co. G Link, - 18 March 1864: - John Milton Piles: John and his sweetheart Sarah Elizabeth Hamilton were married - Link, - Sanitary Commission Fair in Washington - History.com, - Lincoln praises Sanitary Commission for work with Troops - History.com, - 26 March 1864: McPherson takes over the Union Army of the Tennessee - History.com, - 30 March 1864: Emanuel Warthan: Letter to his Parents - La Cross, La Cross County, Wisconsin - Link, |
| Apr 1864 |
- 1 Apr 1864:
Emanuel Warthan:
3rd Infantry fought at
Fitzhuh's Woods, Arkansas - Union Victory - S6,
- 9 Apr 1864: Battle of Mansfield, Louisiana - Confederate Victory - History.com, - 12 Apr 1864: Capture of Ft. Pillow (Fort Pillow Massacre), Tennessee by Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest - Hundreds of Union soldiers killed in Fort Pillow Massacre - 17 Apr 1864: Battle of Plymouth, North Carolina begins - History.com, - 18 Apr 1864: Confederates inflict pain at Battle of Poison Spring, Arkansas - History.com, - 25 Apr 1864: Confederates overwhelm Union at Marks' Mills - History.com, - 28 Apr 1864: Emanuel Warthan: Moved to Pine Bluff Arkansas S1, - 30 Apr 1864: Confederates attack Union troops at Jenkins' Ferry, Arkansas - History.com, |
| May 1864 |
- 4 May 1864:
The Army of the Potomac crossed the Rapidan River -
History.com, - 5 May 1864: Battle of the Wilderness, Virginia - History.com, - 7 May 1864: - Sherman begins his Atlanta Campaign - - Grant Leaves the Wilderness for Spotsylvania - History.com, - 8 May 1864: General Lee's army beats Grant's Union troops to Spotsylvania - History.com, - 9 May 1864: Union troops take Snake Creek Gap, Georgia - History.com, - 11 May 1864: - Battle of Yellow Tavern - Union Victory - Wikipedia, - Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart is mortally wounded at the battle of Yellow Tavern - History.com, - 12 May 1864: - Death of Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart - Wikipedia - - Battle of Bloody Angle - History.com, Wikipedia, NPS Page, - 13 May 1864: Grant swings toward Petersburg - History.com, - 14 May 1864: Battle of Resaca, Georgia begins - History.com, - 15 May 1864: VMI cadets fight in Battle of New Market - History.com, - 19 May 1864: - Battle of Spotsylvania concludes - History.com, - Lincoln proposes equal treatment of soldiers' dependents - History.com, - 23 May 1864: Fighting begins on the North Anna River, Virginia - History.com, - 24 May 1864: Battle of North Anna Continues - History.com, - 26 May 1864: Montana Territory created - History.com, - 27 May 1864: John Milton Piles: Letter from John to his Wife Sarah Elizabeth Hamilton Piles - Elk River, Tennessee - Link, - 29 May 1864: Union troops reach Totopotomoy Creek, Virginia - History.com, |
| June 1864 |
- 1 June 1864Battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia begins -
History.com, - 3 June 1864: Union disaster at Cold Harbor - History.com, - 5 June 1864: Union routs Rebels at the Battle of Piedmont - History.com, - 10 June 1864: Confederates are victorious at the Battle of Brice's Crossroads in Mississippi - History.com, - 11 June 1864: Union seeks to destroy rail line at Trevilian Station, Virginia - History.com, - 12 June 1864: Grant pulls out of Cold Harbor - History.com, Fold3 Blog, - 13 June 1864: Grant swings toward Petersburg, Virginia - History.com, - 15 June 1864: Battle of Petersburg, Virginia begins - History.com, - 18 June 1864: Union hero Joshua Chamberlain is wounded at Petersburg, Virginia - History.com, - 19 June 1864: - John Milton Piles: Letter from John to his Wife Sarah Elizabeth Hamilton Piles, Elk River, Tennessee - Link, - USS Kearsarge sinks CSS Alabama - off the coast of France - History.com, - 21 June 1864: Grant extends the Petersburg line - History.com, - 22 June 1864: Lee strikes back at Petersburg - History.com, - 24 June 1864: Colorado Governor orders Native Americans to Sand Creek Reservation - History.com, - 25 June 1864: Union begins tunneling toward Rebels at Petersburg - History.com, - 27 June 1864: Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia - History.com, |
| July 1864 |
- 6 July 1864:
Confederate General Jubal Early occupies Hagerstown, Maryland -
History.com, - 9 July 1864: Confederates strike Yankees at the Battle of Monocacy - History.com, - 10 July 1864: Emanuel Warthan: Letter to his Parents - No location given - Link, - 14 July 1864: Battle of Tupelo (Harrisburg), Mississippi (Union Victory) - History.com, - 17 July 1864: Confederate Gen. J. B. Hood replaces J. Johnston as commander of the Army of Tennessee - History.com, - 20 July 1864: Battle of Peachtree Creek, Georgia - History.com, - 22 July 1864: Battle of Atlanta, Georgia Continues - History.com, - 24 July 1864: Second Battle of Kernstown, Virginia - History.com, - 28 July 1864: Battle of Ezra Church begins (Fulton County, Georgia) - History.com, - 30 July 1864: Union forces stopped at the Battle of the Crater - History.com, |
| Aug 1864 | -
1 Aug 1864: Sheridan takes command
of Army of the Shenandoah -
History.com, - 4 Aug 1864: - Union Generals Squabble Outside Atlanta - History.com, - Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan is killed - History.com, - 5 Aug 1864: Union scores victory at the Battle of Mobile Bay, Alabama - History.com, - 11 Aug 1864: Confederate General Jubal Early abandons Winchester, Virginia - History.com, - 13 Aug 1864: Deep Bottom Run campaign begins - History.com, - 14 Aug 1864 to 17 Oct 1864: Emanuel Warthan: Co. G on Furlough S1, - 16 Aug 1864: Confederate General John Chambliss is killed - History.com, - 18 Aug 1864: Union attacks railroad at Globe Tavern, Virginia - History.com, - 22 Aug 1864: International Red Cross founded - History.com, - 25 Aug 1864: Confederates attack at the Second Battle of Ream's Station, Virginia - History.com, - 28 Aug 1864: Union General Alfred Terry is promoted - History.com, - 31 Aug 1864: - Union Gen. McClellan nominated for President by Democrats at Chicago Convention - - Battle of Jonesboro, Georgia leads to fall of Atlanta - History.com, |
| Sept 1864 |
- 1 Sept 1864: - Confederates evacuate Atlanta, Georgia - - Atlanta falls to Union Forces - History.com, - 4 Sept 1864: - Confederate General John Hunt Morgan killed in Greeneville, Tennessee - - Union Generals squabble outside of Atlanta - History.com, - 7 Sept 1864: Atlanta is evacuated - History.com, - 25 Sept 1864: Confederate President visits General Hood in Georgia - History.com, - 26 Sept 1864: Confederates begin attack against Fort Davidson, Missouri - History.com, - 27 Sept 1864: Confederate guerillas sack Centralia, Missouri - History.com, - 29 Sept 1864: - Union tries to break stalemate in Virginia - History.com, - Battle of New Market Heights (Chaffin's Farm/Fort Harrison) Virginia - History.com, - 30 Sept 1864: Battle of Poplar Springs Church (Peeble's Farm) Virginia - History.com, |
| Oct 1864 |
- 1 Oct 1864: Confederate spy Rose O'Neal Greenhow dies - 2 Oct 1864: Confederate victory at Battle of Saltville, Virginia - History.com, - 5 Oct 1864: Union victory at the Battle of Allatoona, Georgia - History.com, - 7 Oct 1864: Battle of Darbytown Road (Johnson's Farm), Virginia - History.com - 8 Oct 1864: - Emanuel Warthan: Dies in Chickasaw County, Iowa while on furlough - Chronic diarrhea contracted while serving in the Civil War Link, - President Lincoln is re-elected - History.com, - 9 Oct 1864: Union victory at the Battle of Tom's Brook, Virginia - History.com, - 17 Oct 1864: James Longstreet returns to command - History.com, - 19 Oct 1864: Union victorious at the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia - History.com, - 22 Oct 1864: Confederates arrive at Guntersville, Alabama - History.com, - 23 Oct 1864: Battle of Westport, Missouri - History.com, - 26 Oct 1864: Confederate guerilla leader "Bloody Bill" Anderson is killed - History.com, - 27 Oct 1864: Confederate victory at the Battle of Hatcher's Run (Burgess Mill) - (Boydton Plank Road), Virginia - History.com, - 28 Oct 1864: Second Battle of Fair Oaks (Seven Pines), Virginia concludes - History.com, - 30 Oct 1864: The City of Helena, Montana, is founded after miners discover gold - History.com, - 31 Oct 1864: Nevada admitted as the 36th state - History.com, - |
| Nov 1864 | -
4-5 Nov 1864Battle of Johnsonville,
Tennessee -
History.com, - 8 Nov 1864: Abraham Lincoln re-elected President of the United States - - 12 Nov 1864: The destruction of Atlanta Begins - History.com, - 15 Nov 1864: Gen. William T. Sherman departs Atlanta on the March to the Sea - leaves Atlanta in ruins - History.com, - 18 Nov 1864: John Milton Piles: Letter from John to his Wife Sarah Elizabeth Hamilton Piles - Pulaski, Giles County, Tennessee - Link, - 20 Nov 1864: Sherman on the Move - History.com, - 21 Nov 1864: Lincoln allegedly writes to mother of Civil War casualties - History.com, - 22 Nov 1864: Confederate General Hood enters Tennessee - History.com, - 26 Nov 1864: "Alice in Wonderland" manuscript is sent as a Christmas present - 29 Nov 1864: - Battle of Spring Hill, Tennessee - Wikipedia Article, - Native Americans are massacred at Sand Creek, Colorado - History.com, - 30 Nov 1864: Battle of Franklin, Tennessee - S4 p 65 History.com, | |
| Dec 1864 |
- 2 Dec 1864:
Confederate General Gracie killed at Petersburg -
History.com, - 4 Dec 1864: North and South skirmish at Waynesboro, Georgia - History.com, - 10 Dec 1864: Sherman arrives in front of Savannah, General William T. Sherman completes March to the Sea- History.com, - 15 Dec 1864: Battle of Nashville, Tennessee begins - History.com, - 20 Dec 1864: John Milton Piles: Letter from John to his Wife Sarah Elizabeth Hamilton Piles, Near Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee - Link, - 21 Dec 1864: CSS Georgia sinks in Savannah, Georgia - CNN Story - - 22 Dec 1864: Sherman presents Lincoln with a Christmas gift (capture of Savannah, Georgia) - History.com, - 24 Dec 1864: - John Milton Piles: Letter from John to his Wife Sarah Elizabeth Hamilton Piles, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee - Link, (Describes the Battle of Franklin) - Bombardment of Fort Fisher, North Carolina begins - History.com, - 27 Dec 1864: Confederate General Hood's army crosses the Tennessee River - History.com, |
| Before 1860 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 + |
| Color Legend | Enos Hiatt | John Milton Piles | Joshua F. Piles | Emanuel Warthan |
| =1865 | |
| Jan 1865 |
- Jan 1865:
John Milton Piles: Letter from John to his
Wife Sarah Elizabeth Hamilton Piles - (Early 1865) - Huntsville,
Madison County, Alabama -
Link, - 12 Jan 1865: Union General Kilpatrick is promoted - History.com, - 15 Jan 1865: Fort Fisher, North Carolina falls to Union Forces - History.com, - 17 Jan 1865: Sherman's Army is delayed by Rain - History.com, - 23 Jan 1865: Confederate General Hood removed from command - History.com - 24 Jan 1865: Confederate Congress agrees to resume prisoner exchanges - History.com, - 31 Jan 1865: - John Milton Piles: Letter from John to his Wife Sarah Elizabeth Hamilton Piles - Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama - Link, - U.S. House of Representatives passes 13th Amendment abolishing slavery - History.com, - |
| Feb 1865 | -
3 Feb 1865: - Hampton Roads Conference - History.com,, - Freedman's Bureau Created - 5 Feb 1865: - Battle of Dabney's Mill (Hatcher's Run) begins - History.com, - Confederate General John Pegram killed - History.com, - 6 Feb 1865: Confederate General John Pegram Killed - History.com, - 12 Feb 1865: Rev. Dr. Henry Highland Garnet (Former Slave) preaches to House on Slavery and Civil War - History.com, - 14 Feb 1865: - John Milton Piles: Train wreck while Regiment being transported from Huntsville, Alabama to East Tennessee - John broke his left leg and dislocated his left ankle when he was thrown from the train car - Link, David Shiverdecker Affidavit | Surgeon's Certificate, | 7 May 1873 (A Description of the wreck) | A. H. Brandon Affidavit | - 17 Feb 1865: Union troops sack Columbia, South Carolina - History.com, - |
| March 1865 | -
2 March 1865: Yankees rout Rebels at
the Battle of Waynesboro, Virginia -
History.com, - 3 March 1865: Freedmen's Bureau created - History.com, - 4 March 1865: Abraham Lincoln inaugurated for 2nd term as President of United States - - 10 March 1965: Confederate General William H. C. Whiting dies - History.com, - 13 March 1865: Confederacy approves black soldiers - History.com, - 16 March 1865: Confederates swept aside at the Battle of Averasboro, North Carolina - History.com, , Wikipedia, CWSAC Battle Summary, National Park Service, - 19 March 1865: Battle of Bentonville, North Carolina - History.com, - 25 March 1865: Confederates attack Fort Stedman, Virginia - History.com, - 27 March 1865: Lincoln, Sherman and Grant plan final stages of Civil War - 28 March 1865: Lincoln, Sherman and Grant meet at City Point, Virginia - History.com, - 29 March 1865: Appomattox, the final campaign in the Civil War, begins - 31 March 1865: North and South skirmish near White Oak Road and Dinwiddie Court House in Virginia - History.com, |
| Apr 1865 | -
1 Apr 1865: Battle of Five Forks
- Virginia -
Union victory -
History.com, - 2 Apr 1865: - Confederate Government evacuates Richmond, Virginia - - Union Forces capture Petersburg Line - History.com, - Richmond riots over food shortages - History.com, - 3 Apr 1865: Richmond and Petersburg occupied by Union - History.com, - 4 Apr 1865: - Lincoln visits Richmond, Virginia - History.com, - Lincoln dreams about about a presidential assassination - History.com, - 9 Apr 1865: Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders to Gen. U.S. Grant at Appomattox Court House - History.com, - - 10 Apr 1865: After surrendering to Union, General Lee gives final address to troops - 12 Apr 1865: Mobile Alabama Surrenders - - 14 Apr 1865: - President Abraham Lincoln shot at Ford's Theater, Washington, D. C. - by John Wilkes Booth History.com, - U.S. Flag raised over Fort Sumter, South Carolina - 15 Apr 1865: - President Abraham Lincoln dies - History.com, - Andrew Johnson sworn in as U.S. President - - 16 Apr 1865: - John Milton Piles: Letter from John to his Wife Sarah Elizabeth Hamilton Piles, Greenville, Greene County, Tennessee - Link - Talks about the assassination of President Lincoln - 18 Apr 1865: Gen. Sherman and Confederate Johnston sign armistice at Durham Station, North Carolina - - 21 Apr 1865: President Lincoln's funeral train leaves Washington, D.C. - History.com, - 23 Apr 1865: "Panic has seized the country" writes Confederate President Jefferson Davis - History.com, - 26 Apr 1865: - John Wilkes Booth captured and killed in Port Royal, Virginia - History.com, - Confederate Gen. Joseph Johnston surrenders to Gen. William T. Sherman, Durham Station, North Carolina - - 27 Apr 1865: Steamship Sultana Explodes, killing several Union soldiers - Fold3, History.com, - |
| May 1865 | -
2 May 1865: $100,000 reward
offered for arrest of Jefferson Davis - - 4 May 1865: - President Lincoln is buried in Springfield, Illinois - History.com, - Surrender of Confederate Gen. Richard Taylor's forces at Citronelle, Alabama - 10 May 1865: Confederate President Jefferson Davis captured - Irwinville, Georgia - History.com, - 11 May 1865: CSS Virginia blown up to keep Union from getting it - 12 May 1865: Skirmish at Palmito Ranch, Texas - The last engagement of the Civil War - 18 May 1865: - John Milton Piles: Letter from John to his Wife Sarah Elizabeth Hamilton Piles - Camp Harter, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee - Link, (Speaks of the capture of Jefferson Davis) - 26 May 1865: One of the last Confederate generals surrenders (Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith) - History.com, - 29 May 1865: President Andrew Johnson - Amnesty for most ex-Confederates - - |
| June 1865 | -
2 June 1865: Civil War Ends -
History.com, - 6 June 1865: William Quantrill killed by Union Soldiers - History.com, - 19 June 1865: Abolition of slavery announced in Texas on "Juneteenth" - 22 June 1865: John Milton Piles: Letter from John to his Wife Sarah Elizabeth Hamilton Piles - Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi - Link, - 28 June 1865: The Army of the Potomac disbanded - Link, - 30 June 1865: Eight Lincoln assassination conspirators convicted in Washington, D.C. - |
| July 1865 | -
4 July 1865:
John Milton Piles: Letter from John to his
Wife Sarah Elizabeth Hamilton Piles - New Orleans, Louisiana -
Link, - 5 July 1865: - Conspirators court-martialed for plotting to kill Lincoln, Grant and Andrew Johnson - History.com, - Salvation Army Founded - History.com, - 7 July 1865: Lincoln assassination conspirators hanged - Mary Surratt History.com, (Mary Surratt is first woman executed by U.S. Federal Government) - 20 July 1865: Pierre Lallement, inventor of the bicycle, arrives in the U.S. - 21 July 1865: Wild Bill Hickok fights first western showdown - History.com, - 30 July 1865: Joshua F. Piles: Honorable Discharge from Co. G, 8th Ohio Vol. Cav. Link, Service Record | - |
| Aug 1865 | -
2 Aug 1865: CSS Shenandoah learns
the war is over -
History.com, - 10 Aug 1865: 71st Ohio starts their long march in Texas - Link, - 23 Aug 1865: 71st Ohio ends their long march in Texas - Link, - 24 Aug 1865: - John Milton Piles: Letter from John to his Wife Sarah Elizabeth Hamilton Piles - San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas - Link, - (Talks about the 14 Day March of the 71st - Compares Texas to Hell) - |
| Sept 1865 |
- 3 Sept 1865:
John Milton Piles: Letter from John to his
Wife Sarah Elizabeth Hamilton Piles - San Antonio, Bexar County,
Texas -
Link, - |
| Oct 1865 | - |
| Nov 1865 |
- 2 Nov 1865:
Warren G. Harding is born - (29th President) - Corsica, Ohio -
History.com, - 10 Nov 1865: War criminal Henry Wirz hanged - (Commanded Andersonville, Georgia POW camp) - Wikipedia - History.com, - 15 Nov 1865: John Milton Piles: Letter from John to his Wife Sarah Elizabeth Hamilton Piles - San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas - Link, - 22 Nov 1865: John Milton Piles: Letter from John to his Wife Sarah Elizabeth Hamilton Piles - San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas - Link, - 30 Nov 1865: John Milton Piles: Discharged from Army - San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas - Link, Link page 1, Col. 2, |
| Dec 1865 | -
6 Dec 1865: The 13th Amendment is
ratified -
History.com, - 18 Dec 1865: 13th Amendment abolishing slavery becomes part of U.S. Constitution - - 24 Dec 1865: KKK founded - History.com, |
| Before 1860 | 1860 | 1861 | 1862 | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 + |
| Color Legend | Enos Hiatt | John Milton Piles | Joshua F. Piles | Emanuel Warthan |
| =1866 + | |
| =1866 | -
10 Jan 1866: Joshua F. Piles: Joshua and Isabelle Mudhank
were married - Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio
Link, - 9 Apr 1866: Ulysses S. Grant arrested for speeding in his horse buggy, newspaper reports - 10 Apr 1866: ASPCA is founded - Link, - 7 June 1866: Chief Seattle dies near the city named for him - 13 July 1866: Construction begins on Fort Phil Kearny - History.com, - 30 July 1866: The New Orleans Massacre - 6 Oct 1866: First U.S. Train Robbery (Reno Brothers, Jackson County, Indiana) - History.com, - 21 Dec 1866: Native Americans massacre 81 soldiers - |
| =1867 |
- 8 Jan 1867: Congress expands suffrage in nation's Capital -
African American men gain the right to vote in Washington, D.C. - 7 Feb 1867: Laura Ingalls was born (She wrote the "Little House on the Prairie" series - 19 June 1867: Emperor of Mexico executed - 30 March 1867: US purchase of Alaska ridiculed as "Seward's Folly" - 19 June 1867: Emperor of Mexico executed - 1 July 1867: Canadian Independence Day - 23 Sept 1867: Madam C.J. Walker is born - 25 Sept 1867: Cattle pioneer Oliver Loving dies of gangrene - 18 Oct 1867: US Takes possession of Alaska from Russia - History.com, - 12 Nov 1867: U.S. reconsiders war with Plains Indiana - Link, - 15 Nov 1867: First Stock Ticker debuts - Link, - 1867-1881: Emanuel Warthan: Pension Documents for his parents - His father applied but died before it was accepted - His mother then applied and received a pension - Link, - 4 Dec 1867: Oliver Kelley organizes the Grange - 23 Dec 1867: Madam C.J. Walker is born - |
| =1868 |
- 3 Jan 1868: Meiji Restoration begins - 23 Feb 1868: W.E.B. Du Bois is born - 24 Feb 1868: President Andrew Johnson impeached - History.com, - 5 March 1868: Impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson begins - 13 March 1868: Impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson begins - History.com, - 16 May 1868: Senate acquits President Andrew Johnson of high crimes and misdemeanors - 26 May 1868: President Johnson acquitted in Senate impeachment trial - History.com, - 30 May 1868: Civil War dead honored on Decoration Day (later changed to Memorial Day) - History.com, - 19 June 1868: Father De Smet talks peace with Sitting Bull - 23 June 1868: Christopher Latham Sholes received patent for his "Type-Writer featuring a QWERTY keyboard - first successful typewriter - 28 July 1868: 14th Amendment adopted - History.com, - 17 Sept 1868: Cheyenne and Sioux decimate frontiersmen at Beecher's Island - 30 Sept 1868: First volume of "Little Women" published - 27 Nov 1868: Col. George Custer massacres Cheyenne on Washita River - Link - 6 Dec 1868: Vigilantes yank train robbers from jail and hang them - |
| =1869 |
- 15 March 1869: Cincinnati Red Stockings become
first professional baseball team - 10 May 1869: Transcontinental railroad completed, unifying United States - 28 Aug 1869: Three leave Powell's Grand Canyon expedition - 27 Sept 1869: Sheriff Wild Bill Hickok proves too wild for Kansas - 6 Nov 1869: Rutgers beats Princeton in first college football game - 17 Nov 1869: Suez Canal opens - 10 Dec 1869: Wyoming grants women the right to vote - Link, - 25 Dec 1869: John Wesley Hardin kills over a card game - 28 Dec 1869: America's first Labor Day - |
| =1870 |
- 5 Jan 1870: John Wesley Hardin kills over a card
game - 15 Jan 1870: First appearance of the Democratic Donkey - History.com, - 23 Jan 1870: Soldiers massacre sleeping camp of Native Americans - Link, - 25 Feb 1870: First African American congressman sworn in - History.com, - 30 March 1870: 15th Amendment Adopted (Granting African American Men right to vote) - - 11 Apr 1870: Lord Muncaster of Britain is kidnapped in Greece, nearly causing war - 13 April 1870: Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City - 5 June 870: Constantinople burns, killing hundreds - 12 Oct 1870: Robert E. Lee Dies - Fold3.com, History.com, - |
| =1871 | -
21 March 1871: Journalist begins search for Dr.
Livingstone - 20 Apr 1871: Ku Klux Act passed by Congress Link, - 10 May 1871: Treaty of Frankfurt am Main ends Franco-Prussian War - 18 May 1871: Chief Satanta attacks wagon trains, killing teamsters - 1 June 1871: Old west outlaw John Wesley Hardin arrives in Abilene - 8 Oct 1871: - Great Chicago Fire Begins - Link, - Massive fire burns in Wisconsin - |
| =1872 | -
1 March 1872: Yellowstone Park established - 5 Dec 1872: The Mary Celeste, a ship whose crew mysteriously disappeared, is spotted at sea - 16 Dec 1872: Buffalo Bill Cody makes his first stage appearance - 24 Dec 1872: John Milton Piles: Files for Invalid Pension - Link, - |
| =1873 |
- 13 Apr 1873: The Colfax Massacre - 17 May 1873: Writer Dorothy Richardson, pioneer of stream of consciousness, is born - 20 May 1873: Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive patent for blue jeans - Link, - 4 Aug 1873: Colonel Custer and 7th Cavalry attacked by the Sioux - 24 Aug 1873: Elusive Mount of the Holy Cross photographed - 3 Oct 1873: U.S. Army hangs four Modoc leaders for the murder of a Civil War hero (Gen. Edward Canby) - Link, - 27 Oct 1873: Joseph Glidden applies for a patent on his barbed wire design - Link, - 5 Dec 1873: The Boston Belfry Murderer kills his first victim - |
| =1874 |
- 8 June 1874: Apache chief Cochise dies - 30 Nov 1874: Winston Churchill born - 14 Dec 1874: Burglar confesses to high-profile kidnapping case - |
| =1875 |
- 14 Jan 1875: Albert Schweitzer born - 3 March 1875: First indoor game of ice hockey ends in brawl - 26 Jan 1875: Pinkerton's maim Frank and Jesse James' mother - 20 June 1875: Mountain man Joe Meek dies - 24 Aug 1875: Captain Webb becomes first person to swim the English Channel - 25 Aug 1875: Englishman swims the Channel - 27 Aug 1875: Tycoon William Ralston drowns - 23 Sept 1875: Billy the Kid arrested for first time - |
| =1876 |
- 2 Feb 1876: National League of baseball is founded - 9 Feb 1876: Oscar Clifton Robbins, ID0014, Born, Hamilton County, Indiana - 7 March 1876: Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone - Link, - 10 March 1876: First Speech transmitted by telephone - Link, - 19 April 1876: Wyatt Earp dropped from Wichita police force - 22 Apr 1876: First National League baseball game played - 5 May 1876: The theft of "Duchess of Devonshire" painting stirs interest - 4 June 1876: Express train crosses the nation in 83 hours - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/express-train-crosses-the-nation-in-83-hours - 8 June 1876: Apache chief Cochise dies - 17 June 1876: Native Americans score victory at Battle of the Rosebud - 21 June 1876: General Santa Anna dies in Mexico City - 25 June 1876: Battle of Little Bighorn - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/battle-of-little-bighorn - 30 June 1876: Wounded soldiers evacuated from the Little Big Horn by steamboat - 2 Aug 1876: Wild Bill Hickok is murdered - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/wild-bill-hickok-is-murdered - 29 Aug 1876: Charles F. Kettering, inventor of electric self-starter, is born - 7 Sept 1876: Minnesotans attack the James-Younger criminal gang - 23 Nov 1876: "Boss" Tweed delivered to authorities - 25 Nov 1876: US Army retaliates for the Little Bighorn massacre - Link, - 7 Sept 1876: Minnesotans attack the James-Younger criminal gang - 5 Dec 1876: Hundreds die in Brooklyn theater fire - |
| =1877 |
- 8 Jan 1877: Crazy Horse fights last battle -
Link, - 3 March 1877: Rutherford B. Hayes is inaugurated in a private ceremony - Link, - 5 May 1877: Sitting Bull leads his people into Canada - 10 May 1877: President Hayes has first phone installed in White House - Link, - 15 June 1877: First African-American graduate of West Point - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-african-american-graduate-of-west-point - 9 July 1877: Wimbledon tournament begins - 9 Aug 1877: Nez Perce fight Battle of Big Hole - 17 Aug 1877: Billy the Kid kills his first man - 5 Sept 1877: Sioux military leader Crazy Horse is killed - Link, - 5 Oct 1877: Chief Joseph surrenders - 10 Oct 1877: Custer's Funeral is held at West Point, Link, - 21 Nov 1877: Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph - Link, - |
| =1878 |
- 11 Feb 1878: First US cycling club formed - 16 Feb 1878: Silver dollars made legal - 18 Feb 1878: Murder ignites Lincoln County, New Mexico War - 19 Feb 1878: Thomas Alva Edison patents the phonograph - Link, - 23 July 1878: Black Bart strikes again - 13 Aug 1878: First victim of Memphis yellow fever epidemic dies - 20 Sept 1878: Upton Sinclair is born - 18 Dec 1878: Last member of Irish secret society is executed - |
| =1879 |
- 11 Jan 1879: British-Zulu War begins -Anglo-Zulu
War begins - 22 Jan 1879: Chief Dull Knife makes last fight for freedom - 3 March 1879: US Geological Survey created - 14 March 1879: Albert Einstein Born - Link, - 19 July 1879: Doc Holliday kills for the first time - 8 Aug 1879: Emiliano Zapata born (leader of peasants and indigenous people during the Mexican Revolution) - 28 Aug 1879: Zulu King captured - 31 Dec 1879: Thomas Edison demonstrates Incandescent Light - Link, - |
| =1880 |
- - 3 Feb 1880: Grace Gertrude Foulke, ID0015, born, Hamilton County, Indiana - 27 June 1880: Helen Keller born, Tuscumbia, Alabama - 5 July 1880: George Bernard Shaw quits his job - 15 Oct 1880: Chiricahua Apache leader Victorio is killed south of El Paso, Texas - 25 Dec 1880: Layne Hall is born; will become oldest licensed driver in United States (Died 1990) - |
| =1881 |
- 7 Feb 1881: Plea bargaining gains favor in
American courts - 13 March 1881: Czar Alexander II assassinated in St. Petersburg - 16 March 1881: 18-year-old woman murders her lover - 9 Apr 1881: Billy the Kid convicted of Murder - - 16 Apr 1881: Western gunslinger Bat Masterson fights in last shootout - Link, - 10 May 1881: Joshua F. Piles: Files for Invalid Pension Claim - Link, - 21 May 1881: American Red Cross founded - Link, - 10 June 1881: Tolstoy disguises himself as a peasant and leaves on a pilgrimage - 2 July 1881: President James A. Garfield shot - 5 July 1881: George Bernard Shaw quits his job - 14 July 1881: Billy the Kid is shot to death - 20 July 1881: Sitting Bull surrenders - 19 Sept 1881: President James Garfield Dies - Link, - 20 Sept 1881: Chester Arthur becomes third president to serve in one year - 25 Oct 1881: Pablo Picasso born - 26 Oct 1881: Shootout at the OK Corral - Link, - 8 Dec 1881: Theater fire kills hundreds in Vienna - |
| =1882 |
- 30 Jan 1882: Franklin Delano Roosevelt is born - 2 Feb 1882: James Joyce is born - 3 Apr 1882: Jesse James Shot in the back - Link, - 14 July 1882: Gunfighter John Ringo found dead - 14 Nov 1882: Franklin Leslie Kills Billy "The Kid" Claiborne - Link, - |
| =1883 |
- 5 Feb 1883: Southern Pacific Railroad completes
New Orleans to California route - 24 May 1883: Brooklyn Bridge Opens - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/brooklyn-bridge-opens - 27 Aug 1883: Krakatoa Explodes - Most Powerful volcanic eruption in recorded history - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/krakatau-explodes - 3 Nov 1883: Black Bart makes his last stagecoach robbery - 18 Nov 1883: Railroads create the first time zones - Link, - |
| =1884 |
- 1 Feb 1884: Oxford English Dictionary debuts - 14 Feb 1884: Theodore Roosevelt's Wife and Mother die - Link, - 16 Feb 1884: First roller coaster in America Opens, Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-roller-coaster-in-america-opens - 4 April 1884: Isoroku Yamamoto, Japan's mastermind of the Pearl Harbor attack is born - 8 May 1884: Harry S. Truman is born - 16 June 1884: First roller coaster in America opens - 4 July 1884: France give the Statue of Liberty to the US - 6 Dec 1884: Washington Monument Completed - Link - 22 Dec 1884: Cattleman John Chisum dies in Arkansas - 30 Dec 1884: Japanese prime minister Hideki Tojo is born - |
| =1885 |
- 1 Feb 1885: President of the Mormon Church goes
underground - 14 Feb 1886: First trainload of oranges leaves Los Angeles - 18 Feb 1885: Mark Twain published The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Link, - 21 Feb 1885: Washington Monument dedicated - Link, - 23 Feb 1885: Convicted murderer gets spared from death when gallows malfunction - 17 May 1885: Apache leader Geronimo flees Arizona reservation, setting off panic - 17 June 1885: Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/statue-of-liberty-arrives-in-new-york-harbor - 6 July 1885: Louis Pasteur tested Rabies vaccine on 9-year old Joseph Meister - 23 July 1885: Ulysses S. Grant Dies - History.com, - 2 Sept 1885: Chinese miners are massacred in Wyoming Territory - 7 Nov 2020: Canada's transcontinental railway completed - |
| =1886 | -
14 Feb 1886: First trainload of oranges leaves Los Angeles - 3 Apr 1886: Joshua F. Piles: Signed a Declaration for an Original Invalid Pension - Link, - 22 April 2020: Seduction is made illegal in Ohio - 4 May 1886: Haymarket Square Riot (Chicago, Illinois) - 2 June: President Cleveland marries in the White House - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/president-cleveland-marries-in-white-house - 19 June 1886: Future President William Howard Taft marries Helen Herron - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/taft-marries-helen-herron - 31 Aug 1886: Earthquake shakes Charleston, SC - 4 Sept 1886: Geronimo Surrenders - Link, - 28 Oct 1886: Statue of Liberty dedicated - Link, - 18 Nov 1886: Chester Arthur dies in New York - Link, - 30 Nov 1886: Folies Bergère stages first revue - |
| =1887 |
- 9 Jan 1887: Record cold and snow decimates cattle
herds - 1 Feb 1887: Official registration of Hollywood - 2 Feb 1887: First Groundhog day - Link, - 8 Feb 1887: President Cleveland signs the Dawes Act - Dawes Severalty Act approved, ending tribal control of land - 3 March 1887: Helen Keller meets Anne Sullivan, her teacher and “miracle worker” - 9 May 1887: "Buffalo Bill's Wild West" show opens - 27 May 1887: Chinese gold miners are slaughtered in the Hells Canyon Massacre - 3 July 1887: Gunfighter Clay Allison killed - 10 July 1887: Dam collapses in Switzerland, kills 70 - 8 Nov 1887: Doc Holliday dies of tuberculosis - |
| =1888 |
- 12 Jan 1888: Blizzard brings tragedy to Northwest
Plains - 27 Jan 1888: National Geographic Society Founded - Link, - 11 March 1888: Great Blizzard of '88 hits East Coast - 11 April 1888: Henry Ford marries Clara Jane Bryant - 5 June 1888: President Cleveland denies widow her husband's military pension - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/cleveland-denies-widow-her-husbands-military-pension - 31 Aug 1888: Jack the Ripper's first victim murdered - 26 Sept 1888: T.S. Eliot is born - 23 Dec 1888: Vincent van Gogh chops off his ear - Link, - |
| =1889 |
- 3 Feb 1889: Belle Starr murdered in Oklahoma - 14 March 1889: Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte becomes the first Native American woman to graduate from medical school - 31 March 1889: Eiffel Tower opens - 16 April 1889: Charlie Chaplin born - 22 Apr 1889: The Oklahoma land rush begins - Link, - 31 May 1889: Over 2000 die in the Johnstown, Pennsylvania Flood - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-johnstown-flood - 8 July 1889: Wall Street Journal first published - 10 July 1889: "Buckskin" Frank Leslie murders a prostitute - 20 July 1889: Homesteaders murdered by Wyoming ranchers - 30 Sept 1889: Wyoming legislators write the first state constitution to grant women the vote - |
| =1890 | -
2 Jan 1890: President Harrison welcomes Alice Sanger as
first female staffer - 3 July 1890: Idaho becomes 43rd state - 6 Aug 1890: First execution by electric chair - 11 Sept 1890: John Milton Piles: Attends 71st OVI reunion, Brookville, Montgomery County, Ohio - S4 p 46 | - 15 Sept 1890: Agatha Christie born - 24 Sept 1890: The Mormon Church officially renounces polygamy - 1 Oct 1890: Yosemite National Park established - 14 Oct 1890: Dwight D. Eisenhower is born - 15 Dec 1890: Sitting Bull killed by Indian police - 29 Dec 1890: US Army massacres Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee - Link, - |
| =1891 |
- 7 Jan 1891: Zora Neale Hurston is born - 6 Feb 1891: Dalton Gang commits its first train robbery - 1 April 1891: The Wrigley Co. was founded in Chicago - 21 Dec 1891: First basketball game played - |
| =1892 |
- 1 Jan 1892: The first immigrants arrive at Ellis
Island - 7 Jan 1892: Mine explodes in Oklahoma - 19 June 1892: A bloody fingerprint elicits a mother's evil tale in Argentina - 4 Aug 1892: Lizzie Borden's parents found dead - 5 Oct 1892: The Dalton Gang is wiped out in Coffeyville, Kansas - 14 Oct 1892: "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" published - 17 Dec 1892: First issue of "Vogue" is published - |
| =1893 |
- 17 Jan 1893: Americans overthrow Hawaiian monarchy - 22 March 1893: First women's college basketball game played - 7 June 1893: Gandhi's first act of civil disobedience - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/gandhis-first-act-of-civil-disobedience - 9 June 1893: 23 die in collapse of Ford's Theatre, site of Lincoln assassination - 20 June 1893: Lizzie Borden not guilty of murders of her father and step mother - 9 Sept 1893: President Cleveland's child is born in the White House - 16 Sept 1893: Settlers race to claim land in Oklahoma - Link, - 19 Sept 1893: New Zealand first in Women's vote - Nov/Dec 1893: John Milton Piles: Files for an increase in his pension Link, - 16 Dec 1893: Antonin Dvorak's "New World Symphony" receives its world premiere in New York City - |
| =1894 |
- 16 Feb 1894: Gunslinger John Wesley Hardin is
pardoned - 12 March 1894: Coca-Cola sold in glass bottles for the first time - Link, - 22 March 1894: First Stanley Cup championship played - 15 Apr 1894: Bessie Smith is born in Chattanooga, Tennessee (Blues Singer) - 29 Aug 1894: August Haas, ID0377, Born, Defiance, Defiance County, Ohio - 25 Sept 1894: Grover Cleveland pardons bigamists, adulterers, polygamists and unlawful cohabitants - 8 Dec 1894: Humorist James Thurber is born - 22 Dec 1894: Dreyfus affair begins in France - Link, - |
| =1895 |
- 4 Jan 1895:
Utah enters the Union -
Link, - 5 Jan 1895: Alleged spy Alfred Dreyfus stripped of his rank - 5 Apr 1895: Writer Oscar Wilde arrested in England - 21 Apr 1895: First movie projector demonstrated in US - Link, - 25 May 1895: Oscar Wilde is sent to prison for indecency - 19 Aug 1895: John Wesley Hardin killed in Texas - 3 Oct 1895: "The Red Badge of Courage" is published - 4 Oct 195: Englishman wins the first U.S. Open golf tournament - 8 Nov 1895: German Scientist discovers X-rays - Link, - 28 Nov 1895: Duryea Motor Wagon wins first car race in U.S. - - 25 Dec 1895: The legend of "Stagger Lee" is born - 28 Dec 1895: First commercial movie screened - Link, - |
| =1896 |
- 4 Jan 1896: Utah enters the Union - 1 Feb 1896: Puccini's "La Bohème" premieres in Turin, Italy - 6 Apr 1896: First Modern Olympic Games, Athens Greece - - 7 May 1896: Serial killer H.H. Holmes is hanged in Philadelphia - 18 May 1896: Supreme Court rules "separate but equal" constitutional in Plessy v. Ferguson - 26 May 1896: Czar Nicholas II crowned ruler of Russia - - 4 June 1896: Henry Ford test-drives his "Quadricycle" - 16 Aug 1896: Gold discovered in the Yukon - - 19 Aug 1896: John Wesley Hardin killed in Texas - 25 Aug 1896: Outlaw Bill Doolin is killed - 27 Dec 1896: The legend of "Stagger Lee" is born - |
| =1897 |
- 2 Jan 1897: Author Stephen Crane's boat sinks - 2 Feb 1897: Black inventor Alfred Cralle patents the first ice cream scoop - 19 April 1897: First Boston Marathon held - 30 April 1897: British physicist J.J. Thomson announces the discovery of electrons - 19 May 1897: Poet and playwright Oscar Wilde is released after two years in prison - 26 May 1897: Novel "Dracula" goes on sale in London - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/dracula-goes-on-sale-in-london - 25 July 1897: Jack London sails for the Klondike - 21 Aug 1897: Olds Motor Works Founded - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/olds-motor-works-founded - 31 Aug 1897: Thomas Edison patents the Kinetograph (Movie Camera) - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/edison-patents-the-kinetograph - 10 Sept 1897: First drunk driving arrest (England) - Link, - |
| =1898 |
- 15 Feb 1898:
The USS Maine Explodes in Cuba's Havana Harbor -
Link, - 20 April 1898: President McKinley asks for declaration of war against Spain - 1 May 1898: The US destroys Spanish Pacific fleet in Battle of Manila Bay - 12 June 1898: Philippine Independence declared - 22 June 1898: Author Erich Maria Remarque born - 1 July 1898: The Battle of San Juan Hill - 7 July 1898: US Annexes Hawaii - 8 July 1898: Soapy Smith killed in Skagway, Alaska - 25 July 1898: US forces invade Puerto Rico - 12 Aug 1898: Armistice ends the Spanish-American War - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/armistice-ends-the-spanish-american-war - 18 Oct 1898: U.S. takes control of Puerto Rico - 10 Dec 1898: Treaty of Paris ends Spanish-American War - |
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- 6 March 1899: Bayer patents aspirin - 30 May 1899: Bandit Pearl Hart holds up an Arizona stagecoach - 1 July 1899: Mabel Marie Worthen, ID0378, Born, Hartford City, Blackford County, Indiana - 21 July 1899: Ernest Hemingway is born - 15 Aug 1899: Henry Ford leaves Edison to start automobile company - 11 Oct 1899: Boer War begins in South Africa - |
| 24 March 1919 | John Milton Piles: Dies of Hemorrhage Cerebral at his his home at 3524 Krather Ave, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio - Link, (Copied to Timeline 1900-1999) |
| 8 Apr 1919 | John Milton Piles: His widow, Sarah, files for a military pension - Link, (Copied to Timeline 1900-1999) |
| 21 July 1923 | Joshua F. Piles: Declaration for Pension - Link, (Copied to Timeline 1900-1999) |
| 25 Aug 1923 | Joshua F. Piles: Signed a General Affidavit for his health - Link, (Copied to Timeline 1900-1999) |
| 22 Jan 1927 | Confederate General John McCausland dies - History.com, (Copied to Timeline 1900-1999) |
| 30 May 1928 | Joshua F. Piles: Joshua dies of injuries suffered in an auto accident - Pyrmont, Montgomery County, Ohio - Link, (Copied to Timeline 1900-1999) |
| 5 Aug 2002 | Divers recover U.S.S. Monitor turret - History.com, (Copied to Timeline 2000) |
| Resources - 71st OVI |
| Wikipedia Article, 71st OVI - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/71st_Ohio_Infantry |
| 71st Ohio Infantry, Compiled by Larry Stevens - http://www.ohiocivilwar.com/cw71.html |
| 71st Ohio Volunteer Infantry had
checkered reputation in Civil War Troy engineer aptly names account of unit ‘Redemption’ http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/news/local/71st-ohio-volunteer-infantry-had-checkered-reputat/nNnDf/ |
| 71st Ohio Volunteer Infantry - Thanks to Martin Stewart - http://www.thetroyhistoricalsociety.org/military/71stOVI.htm |
| 71st Ohio Volunteer Infantry -
Regimental History http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohross/Military%20Files/71st_ohio_volunteer_infantry.htm |
| Book Notice: Redemption: The 71st
Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War, by Martin Stewart http://www.cincinnaticwrt.org/data/articles/Stewart_71st%20OVI.pdf |
| Proceedings of the Annual reunion
of the 71st OVI, 11 Sept 1890 - Google Books |
| National Park Service: Soldiers and Sailors Database: http://www.nps.gov/civilwar/soldiers-and-sailors-database.htm |
| List of places the 71st visited during 1861-1865 (Stars indicate the regiment was engaged in battle with Rebels) S4 p 77-78 | |
| Also see: S2 | | S3 | S4 | S5 | |
| Resources - 3rd MVI |
| WikiPedia Article - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3rd_Minnesota_Volunteer_Infantry_Regiment |
| 3rd Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment - http://www.researchonline.net/mncw/unit9.htm |
| 3rd Minnesota Voluntary Infantry Regiment - Regiment History - http://www.fsegames.eu/forum/index.php?topic=1159.0 |
| Third Minnesota Voluntary Infantry - http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mnwabcw/3.htm |
| 3rd Regiment, Minnesota Infantry - https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/3rd_Regiment,_Minnesota_Infantry |
| Historic Fort Snelling - The Civil War (1861-1865) - http://www.historicfortsnelling.org/history/military-history/civil-war |
| National Park Service: Soldiers and Sailors Database: http://www.nps.gov/civilwar/soldiers-and-sailors-database.htm |
| Resources - 8th Ohio Vol. Cavalry (OVC) - |
| Wikipedia Article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8th_Ohio_Cavalry |
| 8th Ohio Cavalry, compiled by Larry Stevens - http://www.ohiocivilwar.com/cwc8.html |
| Civil War Index: 8th Ohio Cavalry - http://www.civilwarindex.com/armyoh/8th_oh_cavalry.html |
| FamilySearch Wiki: https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/8th_Regiment,_Ohio_Cavalry |
| National Park Service: Soldiers and Sailors Database: http://www.nps.gov/civilwar/soldiers-and-sailors-database.htm |
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| S1 | 3rd Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment - http://www.researchonline.net/mncw/unit9.htm | |
| S2 | Book: Stewart, Martin. Redemption: The 71st Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War. Miami County, Ohio: Self-Published, Hardbound edition, 2012. Bk3744 | |
| S3 | Unpublished Article. "Epidemic Kerato-Conjunctivitis in the 71st Ohio Volunteer Infantry" Stephen Altic, 1996, Rev. 2013. (Used here with permission of author). Acc002588/Doc1505.pdf | Doc1505.pdf |
| S4 | Book: Proceedings of the annual reunion of the 71st O.V.I. Association. Troy, Ohio: Miami Union Job Rooms, 1891. (Google Books) - Bk3754 | Google Books |
| S5 | Article: "Charley Schreel's Book: Diary of a Union Soldier on Garrison Duty in Tennessee". By Edward F. Keuchel and James P. Jones. Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Vol. 36, No. 2, 1977, ppg 197-207.(1) Doc1544.pdf | |
| S6 | Military Records,
"U.S., American Civil War Regiments, 1861-1866" [database on-line].
Original data: Data compiled by Historical Data Systems of Kingston,
MA. www.ancestry.com, accessed 30 Apr 2016.
Ancestry.com Record Link - From DB: Regiment: 3rd Infantry Regiment Minnesota Date of Organization: 1 Oct 1861 Muster Date: 2 Sep 1865 Regiment State: Minnesota Regiment Type: Infantry Regiment Number: 3rd Officers Killed or Mortally Wounded: 0 Officers Died of Disease or Accident: 4 Enlisted Killed or Mortally Wounded: 17 Enlisted Died of Disease or Accident: 275 Battles: Fought on 13 Jul 1862 at Murfreesboro, TN. Fought on 18 Aug 1862 at New Ulm, MN. Fought on 23 Sep 1862 at Wood Lake, MN. Fought on 15 Jan 1863 at Murfreesboro, TN. Fought on 1 Apr 1864 at Fitzhugh's Woods, AR. Regiment History: MINNESOTA 3RD INFANTRY - Three Years Third Infantry. Cols., Henry C. Lester, Chauncey W. Griggs, Christopher C. Andrews, Hans Mattson; Lieut.-Cols., Benjamin F. Smith, Everett W. Foster, James B. Hoit; Majs., John A. Hadley, Benjamin F. Rice, William W. Webster. This regiment was organized during the summer and fall of 1861, and was mustered in Nov. 15. It left the state on the 17th for Louisville, where it went into camp. On Dec. 6, it left for Shepherdsville, where six companies were detailed to guard bridges, the other four being sent to Lebanon Junction for the same purpose. It was assigned to the 16th brigade, Army of the Ohio, went into camp near Nashville March 24, 1862, and on April 27, moved to Murfreesboro, from which place several expeditions were made. It was at Murfreesboro in July, supporting a battery, when Forrest's cavalry charged, and was finally surrendered to Forrest against the protests of most of the men in line. A camp guard of 20 men had repulsed four times that number in two assaults, but was finally overcome in a third charge led by Forrest in person. All the officers who advocated the surrender, including the colonel, were later dismissed from the service. Lieut.-Col. Griggs and Capts. Andrews and Hoit were the only officers present who voted against surrendering. Lieut. Vanstrum offered his ballot, but he arrived after the council was over. The regiment was sent to Madison, Ga., for three months, then to Libby prison, where it was paroled and sent to Nashville. An attempt was made to induce the men to break their parole, and they were criticized for surrendering. They resented the injustice, declined to break their parole, and were sent to Benton barracks. Co. C, commanded by Lieut. Grummons was at Shelbyville at the time of the surrender and was sent to Tullahoma. It returned to Murfreesboro, where it joined the 2nd Minn. infantry and was ordered to Fort Snelling in October. There it joined the regiment, which had been exchanged in August, and remained in Minnesota to aid in putting down the Indian raids. The regiment joined Gen. Sibley at Fort Ridgely in September, after a forced march from Fort Snelling, and in the expedition from the fort it was always in the advance. On the 23rd a small party left camp to get a load of potatoes from Yellow Medicine agency and it was attacked by a force of several hundred Indians about a mile from camp. The 3rd was on the ground in a few minutes and while falling back in order 250 men repulsed 700 Indians, then with reinforcements routed them in a bayonet charge. This came to be known as the battle of Wood Lake Camp was made at a point known later as Camp Release, and there the regiment remained in the field until Nov. 14, when it reported at Fort Snelling and was furloughed until Dec. 3. About 70 members who were home on sick leave marched on Sept. 11, to the relief of Fort Abercrombie reached there on the 23rd and participated in several skirmishes. They joined the command at Camp Release in October. The regiment was reorganized in December, Lieut.-Col. Griggs being made colonel; Capt. Andrews, lieutenant-colonel, and promotions were made from the ranks to fill the vacancies. This went far towards restoring the morale of the regiment, which had been affected by the unfortunate action at Murfreesboro. The ranks were soon recruited and on Jan. 23, 1863, the regiment left the state a second time, going to Cairo, Ill., and thence to Columbus Ky. In March, it moved to Fort Heiman and remained there some time to break up Confederate conscription. In May, it was ordered to Vicksburg and on June 8, reached Haynes' bluff, where it was made a part of Kimball's provisional division of the 16th corps. It took part in intrenching the place and on the 15th took position at Snyder's bluff, remaining there until the surrender. On July 23, it made part of a force for the campaign in Arkansas, and was assigned to the 2nd brigade, 2nd division. It moved to Helena, thence to Brownsville, on to Bayou Fourche, being present at the engagement there in September, and made part of the force that occupied Little Rock during the fall and winter, being selected as one of the two infantry regiments for "its efficiency and discipline." Reenlistment of most of the men under the veteran order followed, and the old members, three companies, were furloughed home in Jan., 1864. On April 1, a detachment of the regiment participated in a sharp conflict at Fitzhugh's woods, repelling a cavalry charge by a counter charge with bayonets. The regiment took part in the inauguration of Isaac Murphy first free-state governor of Arkansas, and then moved to Pine Bluff for the summer where it suffered much from malarial poison. Six companies were sent home on furlough in August, and in October, the regiment quartered at Devall's Bluff for winter, performing picket and scouting duty. It moved to Batesville, May 13, 1865, and on June 1, headquarters were established at Jacksonport. Cos. D and G were left at Batesville A and F were sent to Searcy, E and H to Augusta, and later C and I to Powhatan. On June 3, Confederate Gen. Jeff Thompson surrendered his command to Col. Mattson and the regiment was mustered out at Devall's Bluff Sept. 2, 1865. Gov. Isaac Murphy, the only man in the secession convention of Arkansas to vote "no," steadfast in his allegiance to the Union, and the state's first free soil governor, said of the men of the regiment: "They have proved ready for any undertaking and reliable in every emergency. Such men are an honor to the government. Their state may justly be proud of them." |
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