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| July 11, 1836 | The Specie Circular is issued by Treasury Secretary Levi Woodbury. Jackson and his administration felt it would check the speculation in land purchases that was rampant because of the "war" against the Second Bank of the United States | |
| Specie Circular | ||
| Panic of 1837 | ||
| Andrew Jackson | ||
| July 11, 1861 | Battle of Rich Mountain | West Virginia |
| George McClellan | ||
| Operations in Western Virginia | ||
| Battle of Rich Mountain | ||
| William S. Rosecrans | ||
| July 11, 1861 | Sterling Price, Confederate governor Claiborne Jackson, Nathaniel Lyon, and Francis Blair meet at Planters' House in St. Louis to discuss a truce. Lyon was quoted as saying "This means war" after the talks end abruptly | Missouri |
| Sterling Price | ||
| July 11, 1862 | President Lincoln names Henry Halleck General-in-Chief | |
| Abraham Lincoln | ||
| General-in-Chief, U. S. Army | ||
| Henry Halleck | ||
| July 11, 1862 | Ulysses S. Grant [US] ordered to assume command of the Army of the Tennessee, Army of the Mississippi and other western troops. | |
| Ulysses S. Grant | ||
| July 11, 1864 | Jubal Early reaches Washington D. C. suburbs. In the past few days, however, more than 20,000 Union soldiers from various commands have arrived to defend the city. Commanding the Union forces are Generals Quincy Gillmore and Horatio Wright. | |
| Jubal Anderson Early | ||
| Jubal Early's Raid on Washington D. C. | ||
| Washington D. C. |
Ongoing on this day:
| 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 |
The American Civil War | |
| The Civil War | ||
| July 5, 1859 July 29, 1859 |
The 4th Constitutional Convention, Wyandotte, Kansas | Kansas |
| Bleeding Kansas | ||
| Kansas becomes a state | ||
| July 9, 1863 July 16, 1863 |
Battle of Jackson | Mississippi |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | ||
| Joseph E. Johnston | ||
| July 10, 1863 July 11, 1863 |
Battle of Fort Wagner | South Carolina |
| Quincy A. Gillmore | ||
| P. G. T. Beauregard |
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