May 6, 1861 - Arkansas seceded from the Union.

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5 days later political war broke out between Governor Rector and the Secession Convention as to who held authority ...to command the state’s armed forces, though many members of the militia refused to follow... orders." [Source: Encyclopedia of Arkansas https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/civil-war-timeline-5336/ ]

May 2, 1865 - President Andrew Johnson offered $100,000 reward for the capture of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

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May 1, 1863 - The Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia began. General Robert E. Lee's forces began fighting Union troops under General Joseph Hooker. Confederate General Stonewall Jackson was mortally wounded by his own soldiers later in this battle.

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April 25, 1862 - Union Admiral David Farragut began capturing New Orleans. Union troops officially took possession on April 29.
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Print shows a large squadron of battleships and ironclads entering the Mississippi River near the "Light-house of Southwest Pass."

George Vanderbilt started collecting books at age 12 and built a library of 23,000 volumes.

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Washington in the 1860s permitted women uncommon freedoms. The wives of senators, congressmen, and judges played key roles in parlors. Elite ladies enjoyed full social calendars. The galleries of the “sacred” Capitol glowed with fashionable bonnets. Women thronged its corridors, sending in cards to summon acquaintances from the floor of congress.

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"I never felt more certain that I was doing right, than I do in signing this paper." President Abraham #Lincoln when signing the #Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863.

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Four years from the day rebels had compelled Major Anderson to haul down the Stars and Stripes at Fort Sumter, Anderson, now a major general, raised the same flag over the ruins of the Fort.

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April 13, 1861 - The postmaster-general of the Confederacy ordered local postmasters to return their U.S. stamps to Washington, DC. "The first confederate stamps were not available until October 1861. Most printers capable of doing the work were in the northern states." [Source: Smithsonian, National Postal Museum]
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April 7, 1862 - Union General Ulysses S. Grant pushed the Confederates, now under General Pierre G. T. Beauregard, back to Corinth. The previous day Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston had been killed. His death at Shiloh was a significant blow to rebels.
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Rifle fire awakened infantry regiments. Prentiss’s line got attacked first, followed by an assault on Sherman’s division. His beautiful sorrel got shot, so General Sherman took a horse from his aide, McCoy, but it also got shot.
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April 5, 1862 - General George McClellan established Union siege lines at Yorktown, Virginia.

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"Our regiment was moved to Ship Point near Yorktown a short time after my last letter to you. We remained in camp there until last Sunday when it became known that the rebels had evacuated their position." Captain William Medill, Williamsburg, Virginia

April 2, 1863 - In Richmond, hundreds of women took to the streets, rioted, and demanded the government release emergency supplies.

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"Camp Butler also served as a major prison beginning in February 1862 with the arrival of 2,000 Confederate soldiers captured at the surrender of Fort Donelson in Tennessee." [source: NPS]
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"Most troops at Camp Butler spent little more than one month training, often using wooden sticks in place of rifles due to weapon shortages. Over the course of the war, nearly 200,000 troops passed through the camp."
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1865 March, Steamer at a dock waiting for exchange of prisoners at Aiken's Landing, on the James River in Virginia.

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No garbage decayed in the streets in Petersburg, Virginia. Citizens had consumed every particle of animal or vegetable food. Flocks of pigeons vanished and reappeared on dinner tables. Then rats and mice disappeared. Cats staggered about the streets and began to die of hunger. An ounce of meat became a generous daily ration.

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Sarah Jane Foster, from Maine, went south in late 1865 to teach formerly enslaved people for Baptist sponsors and the American Missionary Association. She contracted Yellow Fever and died at age 28.

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March 10, 1849 - Abraham #Lincoln applied for a patent for a device to lift vessels over shoals by means of inflated cylinders. [Source: National Museum of American History, Behring Center, measurements overall: 9 3/4 in x 26 1/4 in x 4 3/4 in; 24.765 cm x 66.675 cm x 12.065 cm, ID NUMBER, PL.031940, CATALOG NUMBER 31940]
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