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History 354
1863
Lincoln issues fmal Emancipation Proclamation
South Carolina Volunteer Infantry, the first important black regiment, is mustered into U. S. service
National Banking Act approved
Union adopts first national conscription act
Confederacy enacts impressments
Richmond bread riot
Confederacy enacts tax-in-kind
Battle of Chancellorsville (Lee defeats Hooker; Stonewall Jackson killed)
Vallandigham arrested and convicted
West Virginia admitted to the Union
Lee launches invasion of the North
Battle of Gettysburg (Meade defeats Lee, who retreats to Virginia). This is the most costly battle of the war, with 50,000 casualties. The diplomatic balance shifts permanently in favor of the Union.
Vicksburg falls to Grant
Lee begins retreat back to Virginia
Union captures Port Hudson, controls the whole Mississippi River
New York City draft riots
Union assault on Battery Wagner led by the 54th Massachusetts Colored Infantry fails
British government seizes the Laird rams being built for the CSA.
Battle of Chickamauga (Bragg defeats Rosecrans, drives Union army back to Chattanooga)
Gettysburg Address
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