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Civil War Timeline Chronology for September 23
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September 23 , 1833
Roger B. Taney begins his term as 12th Secretary of the Treasury
September 23 , 1857
Raid on federal artillery and infantry at Pacific Springs.
Utah War
September 23 , 1862
Newspapers in the North print the Preliminary Emancipation Proclaimation
September 23 , 1863
President Lincoln orders the 11th and 12th Corps to Stevenson, Alabama to relieve the Army of the Cumberland surrounded in Chattanooga.
Abraham Lincoln
Battles for Chattanooga
Army of the Cumberland
September 23 , 1863
Colonel Henry Sibley defeats the Sioux at Wood Lake, ending the Great Sioux Uprising
September 23 , 1864
To please Radical Republicans before the Election of 1864, Lincoln asks Montgomery Blair to resign as Postmaster General, which he does later in the day.
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