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| July 4, 1827 | Leonidas Polk graduates from West Point | |
| Leonidas Polk | ||
| July 4, 1831 | Date chosen for Nat Turner's rebellion. It was postponed because Turner was sick. | Virginia |
| Nat Turner and the Slave Revolt | ||
| July 4, 1840 | Democrat Martin Van Buren signs the Independent Treasury Act into law | |
| Panic of 1837 | ||
| Martin Van Buren | ||
| Democratic Party | ||
| July 4, 1850 | Following an Independence Day celebration centered around the as yet unfinished Washington Monumnent, Zachary Taylor becomes sick. | |
| Zachary Taylor | ||
| July 4, 1856 | Under direct orders from President Franklin Pierce, Edwin Vose Sumner leads 200 infantrymen into Topeka, Kansas, unlimbers his artillery and informs the freestaters they may not hold a convention. | Kansas |
| Edwin Vose Sumner | ||
| Franklin Pierce | ||
| Bleeding Kansas | ||
| July 4, 1857 | Sewanee, The University of the South is founded by Leonidas Polk at the top of Lookout Mountain | |
| Leonidas Polk | ||
| July 4, 1859 | The Oregon Flag is introduced. It will be the first flag under which U. S. troops enter the Civil War. | Oregon |
| Flags of the Civil War | ||
| July 4, 1861 | The Kansas Flag is introduced | Kansas |
| Flags of the Civil War | ||
| July 4, 1861 | Leonidas Polk is put in charge of the Confederate Department Number 2. | |
| Leonidas Polk | ||
| July 4, 1862 August 1, 1862 |
John Hunt Morgan leads a Confederate raid into Kentucky | |
| John Hunt Morgan | ||
| July 4, 1863 | Morgan's men run into a contigent of federal troops in Columbus, Kentucky | Kentucky |
| John Hunt Morgan | ||
| July 4, 1863 | Ulysses S. Grant accepts the surrender of the second Confederate Army he has defeated, at Vicksburg | Mississippi |
| Ulysses S. Grant | ||
| Second Vicksburg Campaign | ||
| July 4, 1863 | The West Virginia flag is introduced. This is the final Union flag of the Civil War | West Virginia |
| Flags of the Civil War | ||
| July 4, 1864 | "Retreating Joe" Johnston, as he is now called in the Richmond papers, withdraws to his previously prepared Chattahoochee Line | Georgia |
| July 4, 1864 | Battle of Helena | Arkansas |
| July 4, 1868 | North Carolina ratifies the 14th Amendment | North Carolina |
| 14th Amendment | ||
| July 4, 1868 July 9, 1868 |
Democrats nominate Horatio Seymour for President and Francis P. Blair Jr. for Vice-president | |
| Election of 1868 | ||
| Democratic Party |
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 | |
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