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February |
March
3rd: The U.S. Congress enacts a draft, affecting male citizens aged 20 to 45, but
also exempts those who pay $300 or provide a substitute. "The blood of a poor man is
as precious as that of
the wealthy," poor Northerners complain. |
April
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June
3rd: Gen. Lee with 75,000 Confederates launches his second invasion of the North, heading
into Pennsylvania in a campaign that will soon lead to Gettysburg.
28th: President Lincoln appoints Gen. George G. Meade as commander of the Army of the
Potomac, replacing Hooker. Meade is the 5th man to command the Army in less than a year. |
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August
UV Mobile Bay:
10th: The president meets with abolitionist Frederick Douglass who pushes for full
equality
for Union 'Negro troops.'
21th: At Lawrence, Kansas, pro-Confederate William C. Quantrill and 450 proslavery
followers
raid the town and butcher 182 boys and men. |
September
19/20th: A decisive Confederate victory by Gen. Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee at Chickamauga
leaves Gen. William S. Rosecrans' Union Army of the Cumberland trapped in Chattanooga,
Tennessee under Confederate siege. |
October
16th: The president appoints Gen. Grant to command all operations in the western
theater. |
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December
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