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| May 24, 1844 | Samuel F. B. Morse taps the message "What hath God wrought?" into his telegraph, sending it from Washington to Baltimore over wires. | |
| Telegraph | ||
| Washington D. C. | ||
| May 24, 1856 May 25, 1856 |
Pottawatomie Massacre - John Brown kills five pro-slavers along this Kansas Creek | Kansas |
| Bleeding Kansas | ||
| John Brown | ||
| May 24, 1861 | Federal forces occupy Alexandria | Virginia |
| May 24, 1861 | Sterling Price refuses to disband his troops | Missouri |
| Sterling Price | ||
| May 24, 1861 | Col. Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth of the 11th New York Fire Zouaves is killed in the Marshall House Inn in Alexandria, Virginia, after he and his men removed a Confederate flag. He is generally regarded as the first officer killed while on duty in the American Civil War. | New York |
| Civil War Firsts | ||
| Encounter at the Marshall House | ||
| May 24, 1861 | Benjamin Butler uses the term "contraband" to describe slaves who have crossed into the Northern camps | |
| Benjamin Butler | ||
| contraband | ||
| Civil War Firsts | ||
| May 24, 1865 | Grand Review of Sherman's Army | |
| William Tecumseh Sherman |
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The American Civil War | |
| The Civil War | ||
| May 9, 1864 May 24, 1864 |
Sheridan's Raid on Richmond | Virginia |
| Sheridans Raid on Richmond | ||
| Richmond, Virginia | ||
| May 22, 1848 May 25, 1848 |
In a convention in Baltimore, Maryland, Democrats nominate Lewis Cass for President and William Butler for Vice President | Maryland |
| Election of 1848 | ||
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