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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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