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U.S. Civil War History
U.S. Civil War History
1861 - Pro-Confederate volunteers threw rocks at Pennsylvania troops as they changed trains in Baltimore, MD.
1861 - Colonel Robert E. Lee was offered command of the Union army. Two days later he resigned from the U.S. Army.
1864 - Confederate General Samuel Maxey's troops attacked a Union wagon train at Poison Springs, Arkansas.
1865 - Near Durham, North Carolina, Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrendered to General William T. Sherman.
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