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| July 1, 1805 | David Farragut born, Knoxville, Tennessee | |
| David Farragut | ||
| July 1, 1805 | Joseph Totten graduated from West Point (3/3) | |
| July 1, 1814 | James Wolfe Ripley (12/30) and Charles Mynn Thurston(15/30) graduate from West Point | |
| July 1, 1815 | Samuel Cooper (36/40) graduates from West Point | |
| July 1, 1818 | Second Bank of the United States switches from expansionary to deflationary by requiring payment from state banks in gold. | |
| Panic of 1819 | ||
| July 1, 1818 | Richard Delafield (1/23) graduates from West Point | |
| July 1, 1819 | Daniel Tyler (14/29) graduates from West Point | |
| July 1, 1820 | At a convention in St. Louis, Missouri passes a pro-slave state constitution. | Missouri |
| Missouri Compromise (Compromise of 1820) | ||
| July 1, 1820 | John Henry Winder (11/30) and George Douglas Ramsay (26/30) graduate from West Point | |
| July 1, 1823 | George Sears Greene (2/35) and Lorenzo Thomas (17) graduate from West Point | |
| July 1, 1825 | Daniel Smith Donelson (5/37), Benjamin Huger (8), Robert Anderson (15), Charles Ferguson Smith (19) and William Reading Montgomery (28) graduated from West Point | |
| Benjamin Huger | ||
| July 1, 1836 | Graduating from West Point in a class of 49 students, Joseph R. Anderson (4), | |
| July 1, 1837 | Entering West Point in the class of 1841, Don Carlos Buell, | |
| Don Carlos Buell | ||
| July 1, 1838 | The West Point class of 1838 contains P. G. T Beauregard (2), Irwin McDowell (23), William Hardee (26), and Carter Stevenson (42). | |
| P. G. T. Beauregard | ||
| July 1, 1842 | West Point Class of 1846 includes George B. McClellan, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, | |
| George McClellan | ||
| Stonewall Jackson | ||
| July 1, 1846 | Graduating from West Point (rank): George B. McClellan (2), John Gray Foster (4), Jesse Lee Reno (8), Darius Nash Couch (13) Thomas Jonathan Jackson later Stonewall Jackson(17), Truman Seymour (19), Charles Champion Gilbert (21), John Adams (25), Samuel Davis Sturgis (32), George Stoneman (33), William Duncan Smith (35) Dabney Herndon Maury (37), Innis Newton Palmer (38), David Rumph Jones (41), Alfred Gibbs (42), George Henry Gordon (43), Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox (54), William Montgomery Gardner (55), Samuel Bell Maxey (58), George Edward Pickett (59) | |
| George McClellan | ||
| Darius Couch | ||
| Stonewall Jackson | ||
| George Stoneman | ||
| July 1, 1862 | Naval assault on Fort McAllister | Georgia |
| Fort McAllister | ||
| July 1, 1862 | Battle of Malvern Hill
Battle of Malvern Cliffs Robert E. Lee [CS] attacked George B. McClellan [U.S.], whose men made a gallant stand in front of the James River. Lee called off his attack after failing to break the Union line. |
Virginia |
| George McClellan | ||
| Robert E. Lee | ||
| Lafayette McLaws | ||
| Seven Days Retreat | ||
| Battle of Malvern Hill | ||
| Fitz-John Porter | ||
| Darius Couch | ||
| July 1, 1862 | President Lincoln signs the Pacific Railway Act, incorporating the Union Pacific Railroad and subsidizing it with federal funds | |
| Abraham Lincoln | ||
| July 1, 1862 | [circa] General David Hunter organizes the 1st South Carolina Regiment. It will later become the 33rd |
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| July 1, 1862 | United States public debt exceeds $500 million for the first time. | |
| July 1, 1863 July 3, 1863 |
Battle of Gettysburg
General Robert E. Lee [CS] advances into Pennsylvania where he meets George Meade [US]. First battling north of the city, by the second day Union forces had retreated south, forming a strong line as men arrived almost continuously. On the third day, the infamous Pickett's Charge marked the end of the Confederates hope for a victory The bloodiest three days in American history |
Pennsylvania |
| Bloodiest Civil War battles | ||
| Robert E. Lee | ||
| John Bell Hood | ||
| James Longstreet | ||
| George Meade | ||
| Army of Northern Virginia | ||
| Army of the Potomac | ||
| J. E. B. Stuart | ||
| Lafayette McLaws | ||
| Winfield Scott Hancock | ||
| George Armstrong Custer | ||
| Battle of Gettysburg | ||
| Richard Ewell | ||
| George Pickett | ||
| John Reynolds | ||
| The Gettysburg Campaign | ||
| Early action at Herbst Woods | ||
| James Archer | ||
| George Armstrong Custer | ||
| Jubal Anderson Early | ||
| July 1, 1863 | General John Reynolds is killed west of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Less than a month earlier, Abraham Lincoln had offered him command of the Army of the Potomac | |
| Generals Who Died In the Civil War | ||
| John Reynolds | ||
| Gettysburg Chronology, July 1, 1863 | ||
| Battle of Gettysburg | ||
| July 1, 1864 | Abraham Lincoln appoints William Pitt Fessenden, Senator from Maine, as Secretary of the Treasury. He is immediately confirmed | |
| July 1, 1864 | Already passed in the U. S. House, the Senate approves the Wade-Davis Reconstruction Bill 26-3 with 20 abstentions. Lincoln will pocket veto the bill. Radical Republicans had been unhappy with Reconstruction efforts in Louisiana and Arkansas requiring 10 per cent of previous voters approval to restore a state | |
| Republican Party | ||
| July 1, 1889 | Frederick Douglass is appointed U. S. Minister to Haiti | |
| Frederick Douglass | ||
| July 1, 1891 | Control of the Weather Bureau passes from the Signal Corps to the Department of Agriculture | |
| July 1, 1928 | War Department transfers Ford's Theater to the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks | |
| Ford's Theater |
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| June 15, 1864 April 2, 1865 |
Siege of Petersburg | Virginia |
| Robert E. Lee | ||
| P. G. T. Beauregard | ||
| Army of Northern Virginia | ||
| Ulysses S. Grant | ||
| Siege of Petersburg | ||
| April 12, 1861 May 10, 1865 |
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