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1800's 1863

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January

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

May 

CV Chacellorsville:
UV Vicksburg: May-July

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.

July
UV Port Hudson:
UV Battle of Gettysburg

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.

November

December

1800's 1863

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