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Civil War Timeline Chronology for July 7
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July 7 , 1817
Ethan Allen Hitchcock (17/19) graduates from West Point
July 7 , 1854
Franklin Pierce swears Andrew Reeder in as territorial governor of Kansas in Washington, D. C.
Kansas
Franklin Pierce
July 7 , 1862
Battle of Hill's Plantation
Arkansas
July 7 , 1863
Federal troops sack Brierfield, the plantation home of Jefferson Davis
Mississippi
Jefferson Davis
July 7 , 1863
Braxton Bragg completes his withdrawal from Tullahoma to Chattanooga
Tennessee
Braxton Bragg
Tullahoma Campaign
July 7 , 1864
Congress appropriates $2 million for restoration of Ford's Theater
Ford's Theater
July 7 , 1865
Secretary of War Edwin Stanton orders Union troops to stand guard at Ford's Theater to prevent it from reopening following the assasination of President Lincoln
Ford's Theater
Edwin Stanton
July 7 , 1865
Conspirators Lewis Payne, George A. Atzerodt, David Herold and Mary Surratt are hung in Washington, D. C. for the assassination of President Lincoln
Washington D. C.
Ongoing on this day:
June 15 , 1864 April 2 , 1865
Siege of Petersburg
Virginia
Robert E. Lee
P. G. T. Beauregard
Army of Northern Virginia
Ulysses S. Grant
Siege of Petersburg
April 12 , 1861 May 10 , 1865
The American Civil War
The Civil War
July 5 , 1859 July 29 , 1859
The 4th Constitutional Convention, Wyandotte, Kansas
Kansas
Bleeding Kansas
Kansas becomes a state
July 4 , 1868 July 9 , 1868
Democrats nominate Horatio Seymour for President and Francis P. Blair Jr. for Vice-president
Election of 1868
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