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Confederates repulse the Union attack and kill Commander James H. Ward of the Union Potomac Flotilla, the first Union Navy officer killed during the Civil War. July 13, 1861: Battle of Corrick's Ford: West Virginia (Virginia at the time) [A] Union: Confederate Brig. Gen. Robert S. Garnett is the first general killed in the Civil War. July 25, 1861
In the many decades between the Revolutionary War and the Civil War, such divisions became increasingly irreconcilable and contentious. [1] Events in the 1850s culminated with the election of the anti-slavery Republican Abraham Lincoln as president on November 6, 1860.
April–June 1865 – American Civil War ends as the last elements of the Confederacy surrender; 1865 – Ku Klux Klan founded; 1865 – Slavery abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment. 1866 – Civil Rights Act of 1866; 1866 - Tennessee becomes the first Confederate state readmitted to the union; 1867 – Tenure of Office Act enacted
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [e] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.
Category: American Civil War by year. ... 1862 in the American Civil War (10 C, 121 P) 1863 in the American Civil War (5 C, 20 P) 1864 in the American Civil War (8 C ...
Over the years, audiences have witnessed countless cities, especially Washington, D.C., and our national monuments, destroyed by a variety of aliens, monsters, and all manner of computer-generated ...
1865–1877: Southern United States – Reconstruction following the American Civil War: The South is divided into five Union occupation districts under the Reconstruction Act. 1866: Mexico: To protect American residents, General Sedgwick and 100 men in November obtained surrender of Matamoros, on the border state of Tamaulipas. After three ...
The United States Congress declares end of war, July 2, 1921; Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War, May 26, 1918 – April 1, 1920 The American Expeditionary Force Siberia, August 15, 1918 – April 1, 1920; The American Expeditionary Force North Russia, September 4, 1918 – August 5, 1919