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| 1861 |
| | Mathew Brady sends teams ot photographers to the various battle fronts to ensure a thorough photographic record of the American Civil War | |
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| 1861 |
| | The first battle of the American Civil War, fought near Manassas and the Bull Run Creek, is a clear Confederate victory | |
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| 1862 |
| | The Monitor and the Merrimack fight all morning off the Virginia coast, in history's first clash between ironclad ships | |
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| 1862 |
| | Julia Ward Howe publishes The Battle Hymn of the Republic, inspired by a visit to Union troops in the American Civil War | |
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| 1862 |
| | A two-day engagement at Shiloh is the first Civil War battle to bring massive casualties, with more than 23,000 dead, wounded or missing | |
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| 1862 |
| | In a surprise raid, Union forces sail up the Mississippi estuary to capture New Orleans | |
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| 1862 |
| | George B. McClellan brings a Union army within a few miles of Richmond, but withdraws after the Seven Days Battle against Robert E. Lee | |
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| 1862 |
| | Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee defeat a Union army in the second battle of Bull Run or Manassas | |
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| 1862 |
| | The Federal victory at Antietam comes at a cost of more than 22,000 casualties in a single day | |
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| 1863 |
| | Mobs of women destroy shops in Richmond, Virginia, in protest at food prices inflated by the war | |
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