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10/21/1861 |
Twentieth and Fifteenth Massachusetts Volunteer Regiments take part in the Battle of Ball’s Bluff in Virginia. |
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11/24/1861 |
James Murray Mason and John Slidell are imprisoned in Fort Warren on Georges Island. |
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1861 |
African-American residents protest ban on their enlisting in the military. |
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1861 |
Fort Warren is used as an internment center for captured Confederate soldiers. |
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1861 |
Long Island is used to garrison departing Northern troops. |
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05/12/1862 |
Second Massachusetts Cavalry leaves Boston. |
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06/25/1862 |
Ninth Massachusetts Regiment sails from Long Wharf. |
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07/01/1862 |
Ninth Massachusetts Regiment takes part in the Battle of Malvern Hill in Virginia. |
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08/27/1862 |
Great War Meeting is held on Boston Common. |
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11/30/1862 |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson assumes command of the first African-American Union regiment. |
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