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Civil War Timeline Chronology for June 25
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June 25 , 1832
Battle of Kellogg's Grove (Blackhawk War)
Illinois
June 25 , 1834
Roger B. Taney resigns as Secretary of the Treasury
June 25 , 1862
Battle of Oak Grove
Battle of The Orchards
Joseph Hooker [US] tries to push forward to gain ground for better positioning of McClellan's siege guns
Virginia
George McClellan
Seven Days Retreat
Battle of Oak Grove
Joseph Hooker
Benjamin Huger
June 25 , 1862 July 1 , 1862
A series of closely linked battles known as The Seven Days Battle or The Seven Day Retreat start near Mechanicsville as the Army of the Potomac begins its advance to Richmond.
Virginia
George McClellan
Seven Days Retreat
Robert E. Lee
June 25 , 1863
Union soldiers try to exploit an explosion under the Confederate entrenchments at Vicksburg. The Rebel line easily repulses the attack
Mississippi
Second Vicksburg Campaign
June 25 , 1864
Engineers begin digging a tunnel from Union lines under Confederate entrenchments
Virginia
June 25 , 1866
Connecticut approves the 14th Amendment
Connecticut
14th Amendment
June 25 , 1868
Congress passes congressional representation for North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Louisiana over President Andrew Johnson's veto
Alabama Georgia South Carolina Florida North Carolina Louisiana
Andrew Johnson
June 25 , 1876
Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and a detachment of 263 men are wiped out by 3,000 Sioux warriors under Chief Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse at Little Big Horn in the Montana Territory
George Armstrong Custer
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
May 26 , 1863 July 4 , 1863
Siege of Vicksburg
Date of the start of siege varies from May 18 - May 26.
Mississippi
Ulysses S. Grant
William Tecumseh Sherman
John A. McClernand
James McPherson
May 27 , 1863 July 9 , 1863
Siege of Port Hudson
After attempting to storm the walls of Port Hudson, Nathaniel Banks digs in for a siege.
Louisiana
Nathaniel Banks
June 11 , 1861 June 25 , 1861
First session of the Second Wheeling Convention
West Virginia
Second Wheeling Convention
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