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Civil War Timeline Chronology for April 7
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April 7 , 1788
City of Marietta founded, making it the first permanent settlement in the Northwest Territories
Ohio
April 7 , 1815
[circa] Commodity prices fall almost 20% in March, 1815 as the United States increases its imports following the War of 1812
April 7 , 1846
John Slidell informs James Polk that the Mexican government has refused to recognize him as ambassador.
James Polk
April 7 , 1861
P. G. T. Beauregard orders all transports to Fort Sumter cut off. This ended the fort's supply of fresh food
South Carolina
P. G. T. Beauregard
Fort Sumter
April 7 , 1862
Island No. 10, in the Mississippi River downstream from New Madrid, is captured. More than 5,000 Confederates are taken prisoner
Missouri
John Pope
April 7 , 1863
A fleet of 9 Union ironclads under the command of Samuel Dupont sailed into Charleston Harbor and attacked Fort Moultrie and Fort Sumter. Sumter is visibly damaged but the Confederate batteries from the shore heavily damage the 9 ironclads and they are forced to withdraw. Naval occupation of the harbor is ruled out.
South Carolina
USS New Ironsides
Fort Sumter
April 7 , 1864
James Longstreet recalled to Virginia
James Longstreet
April 7 , 1865
Grant begans communication with Lee known as the "Surrender Letters."
Virginia
Surrender Letters
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
April 7 , 1866
Congress appropriates $100,000 to buy Ford's Theater. It will house the Army Medical Museum, the Office of the Surgeon General and War Department records until 1893
Ford's Theater
April 7 , 1888
Quincy Adams Gillmore dies, Brooklyn, New York
Quincy A. Gillmore
Ongoing on this day:
April 6 , 1862 April 7 , 1862
Battle of Pittsburg Landing [Union]
Battle of Shiloh [Confederate]
Ulysses S. Grant [US] defeats Albert Sidney Johnston [CS] in southwest Tennessee. P. G. T. Beauregard assumed command following Johnston's death
Confederate Losses
1,723 dead
8,012 wounded
959 missing
Union Losses
1,754 dead
8,408 wounded
2,885 missing
Tennessee
Ulysses S. Grant
Sherman's Memoirs on Shiloh
P. G. T. Beauregard
Battle of Shiloh
Braxton Bragg
William Tecumseh Sherman
Bloodiest Civil War battles
Don Carlos Buell
Albert Sidney Johnston
John Breckinridge
William Hardee
William 'Bull' Nelson
Lew Wallace
Lew Wallace at Shiloh
Army of the Tennessee
James McPherson
Army of Mississippi
April 12 , 1861 May 10 , 1865
The American Civil War
The Civil War
April 2 , 1865 April 9 , 1865
Battle of Fort Blakely
Alabama
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