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March

  • 3/3/1863 -Enrollment Act passed, drafting men between 20 and 45 with exemptions by hiring a                           substitute or by payment of $300.00                                                                               3/3/1865 - Congress creates Freedmans Bureau

  • 3/4/1826 - Gen. John Buford, US, born                                                                                                 3/4/1856 - Stephen Douglas introduces a Bill allowing Kansas as a state only after another                            Constitutional Convention there                                                                                       3/4/1861 -Lincoln inaugurated 16th President                                                                   3/4/1865 - Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural

  • 3/6/1831 - Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, US, born                                                                       3/6/1857 - The Dred Scott Decision

  • 3/7/1862 - Battle of Pea Ridge

  • 3/8/1862 - Battle of Pea Ridge                                                                                               3/8/1862 - CSS Virginia (Merrimack) enters Hampton Roads, destroying U.S. warships

  • 3/9/1862 - Indecisive Battle of USS Monitor and CSS Virginia at Hampton Roads

  • 3/12/1864 - Red River Campaign begins                                                                               SAME DATE - U.S. Grant promoted to command ALL U.S. forces

  • 3/13/1865 - Confederate Congress authorizes the use of slaves as combat soldiers

  • 3/14/1862 - Confederates abandon New Madrid, Missouri

  • 3/16/1828 - Gen. Patrick Cleburne, CS, born                                                                      3/16/1861 - The Territory of Arizona secedes

  • 3/17/1865 - Campaign to capture Mobile begins

  • 3/19/1865 - Battle of Bentonville, North Carolina

  • 3/22/1817 - Braxton Bragg, CS, born

  • 3/23/1862 - Stonewall Jackson defeated at Kernstown, Virginia, in the first battle of the                                   Shenandoah Valley.

  • 3/28/1818 - Gen. Wade Hampton, CS, born                                                                      3/28/1862 - Taylor marches to reinforce Jackson

  • 3/29/1865 - Appomattox Campaign begins

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