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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.
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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 |
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| 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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