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Civil War Timeline Chronology for May 24
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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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