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U.S. Civil War History
U.S. Civil War History
1861 - Union troops under General George B. McClellan defeated the Confederates at the Battle of Rich Mountain, Virginia.
1862 - U.S. President Lincoln handed over the job of general-in-chief to General Henry W. (Old Bains) Halleck.
1863 - Union General Quincy Gillmore attacked Battery Wagner on Morris Island near Charleston, South Carolina. The attack was easily repulsed. A much larger assault took place on July 18, but the Confederates did not evacuate until September 7, 1863.
| "Be it remembered that on the fourth day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and in the Capitol of the State of Alabama, in the city of Montgomery, at the hour of noon, there assembled certain deputies and delegates from the several independent South State of North America..." - From the official record when the Provisional Confederate Congerss convened on February 4, 1861. |
