May 29, 1864 Union troops reach Totopotomoy Creek, Virginia Union troops lose another foot race with the Confederates in a minor stop on the long and terrible...
Andrew Johnson, Amnesty Proclamation (May 29, 1865) Whereas the President of the United States, on the 8th day of December, A.D. eighteen hundred and...
May 30, 1862 Confederates evacuate Corinth, Mississippi On this day, the Confederates abandon the city of Corinth. After the epic struggle at Shiloh in April...
May 30, 1868 Civil War dead honored on Decoration Day By proclamation of General John A. Logan of the Grand Army of the Republic, the first major Memorial Day...
May 30, 1806 Andrew Jackson wins duel In Logan County, Kentucky, future president Andrew Jackson participates in a duel, killing Charles Dickinson, a lawyer...
Storey was a printer by trade, having become an apprentice at the age of twelve. He edited two country weeklies in Indiana and later established The Patriot at...
1861 In northern Virginia, P.G.T. Beauregard assumed command of the Alexandria Line. He replaced Milledge Bonham who stayed on to lead the First Brigade....
I saw a news release for the fourth season of "House" on TV shows on DVD and Anthony was mentioned as a stellar guest star and they used "Magnificent Seven" as...
May 29, 1780 Tarleton gives "quarter" in South Carolina On this day in 1780, the treatment of Patriot prisoners by British Colonel Banastre Tarleton and his...
May 29, 1780 Tarleton gives "quarter" in South Carolina On this day in 1780, the treatment of Patriot prisoners by British Colonel Banastre Tarleton and his...
May 29, 1848 Wisconsin enters the Union Following approval of statehood by the territory's citizens, Wisconsin enters the Union as the 30th state. In 1634,...
1861 Near Norfolk, Virginia, Confederates raised the hull of the U.S.S. Merrimac. The Federals had burned her to the water line when they abandoned the...
Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia is reorganized into three corps under Lt Gen R.S. Ewell, Lt Gen A.P. Hill and Lt Gen James Longstreet. ...
Federal troops under Colonel B.F. Kelly occupied Grafton, western Virginia, in order to guard the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and help protect pro-union citizens...
May 30, 1922 Former President Taft dedicates Lincoln Memorial Former President William Howard Taft dedicates the Lincoln Memorial on the Washington Mall on...
May 30, 1899 Pearl Hart holds up an Arizona stagecoach On this day, the amateur bandit Pearl Hart and her boyfriend hold up an Arizona stagecoach. Little is...
1861 In Richmond, the Confederate War Department issued Special Orders No. 149. "General G. T. Beauregard, of the C. S. Army, is assigned to the command of...
"Sell a country? Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?" --Tecumseh,...
"You have to have a lot of patience to hear those old people talk, because when they talk, they talk about motivation, the feeling, the unsound that is around...
STARTLED BY THE unexpected sound of heavy artillery firing on the eastern horizon, Jefferson Davis rode out from the capital on the late afternoon of May 31 to...
Jefferson Davis' Speech at Richmond Spotswood Hotel, June 1, 1861 Friends and Fellow-Citizens: I thank you for the compliment that your presence conveys. It is...
1861 In Virginia, Lieutenant Charles Tompkins led Company B of the 2nd U.S. Cavalry on a 15-mile reconnaissance from Alexandria to Fairfax Court House in the...
03 JACK NEVILLE LANDO 05 CHAD ALLEN 21 BRANDON DOUGLAS http://www.tannertexaslady.com/Poohscorner.html "If I put my faith in my work, I'll be disappointed...
1861 In Chicago, Stephen Douglas died at the age of forty-eight. Born in Vermont, the "Little Giant" had moved to Illinois in 1833. After serving as...
June 2, 1823 Ashley's fur trappers attacked by Indians Arikara Indians attack William Ashley and his band of fur traders, igniting the most important of the...
June 2, 1815 Philip Kearny is born Philip Kearny, one of the most promising generals in the Union army, is born in New York City. Raised in a wealthy family,...
June 2, 1774 Parliament completes the Coercive Acts with the Quartering Act On this day in 1774, the British Parliament renews the Quartering Act, allowing...
Especially for Ric: June 2, 1865 American Civil War ends In an event that is generally regarded as marking the end of the Civil War, Confederate General Edmund...
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