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1860-At Raleigh, North Carolina, the state senate
passes a bill to arm the state
1862-At Lexington, Tennessee, General Nathan Bedford Forrest's cavalry soundly defeats a 675-man Union cavalry force. |
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1862-At Jackson, Tennessee, a 200-man detachment of Forrest's cavalry destroys rail road tracks and a Federal stockade before capturing 176 prisoners, arms, ammunition and stores. |
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1860-By a vote of 169 to 0, South Carolina adopts
an Ordinance of Secession and the Union is dissolved!
1862-General Earl Van Dorn's cavalry attacks the Union supply depot at Holly Springs, Mississippi, destroying $1 million in Federal supplies. |
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1861-Near Clear Spring, Maryland, Confederates under General Turner Ashby and General T.J. Jackson work waist deep in icy water to make a breach in dam No. 5 of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. |
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1862-In Charleston, the South Carolina Convention passes a resolution that states, in effect, that Forts Moultrie, Sumter, Castle Pinckney and the Charleston Arsenal are property of the state, and that their possession should be restored to the state. |
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1861-Skirmishes at Lexington and Dayton, Missouri. |
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1862-At Galveston, Texas, Union troops enter and occupy the island city. |