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Civil War Timeline Chronology for July 13
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July 13 , 1787
Congress (under the Articles of Confederation) enacts the Northwest Ordinance, a plan for governing the territory north and west of the Ohio River. Slavery was banned.
Northwest Ordinance (Ordinance of 1787) [Full Text]
July 13 , 1787
Each of the 12 states represented at the Constitutional Convention votes to approve the new Constitution of the United States.
July 13 , 1861
Battle of Corrick's Ford
While directing his rear guard General Robert Garnett is shot and dies minutes later. He is the first general to die during the Civil War
West Virginia
George McClellan
Battle of Corrick's Ford
Civil War Firsts
July 13 , 1862
Battle of Murphreesboro
Tennessee
Nathan Bedford Forrest
July 13 , 1862
Abraham Lincoln reads a draft of the Emancipation Proclaimation to Secretary of State William Seward and Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, both strong abolitionists. Seward begins talking about the problems it will cause. Welles sits there dumbfounded
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation of Slaves
William Seward
July 13 , 1863
After several days of plundering Indiana, John Hunt Morgan crosses into Ohio
John Hunt Morgan
July 13 , 1863
Battle of Yazoo City
Mississippi
July 13 , 1863
Battle of Donaldsonville
Louisiana
July 13 , 1863 July 16 , 1863
Draft riots, New York City
New York
New York City draft riots
July 13 , 1865
President Andrew Johnson appoints William Marvin provisional governor of Florida
Florida
Andrew Johnson
July 13 , 1868
Alabama ratifies the 14th Amendment
Alabama
14th Amendment
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
Yesterday Tomorrow