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07/08/1863 |
Public draft lottery is established in Boston. |
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07/11/1863 |
Draft riot occurs in New York City. |
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07/14/1863 |
Boston Draft Riot occurs. |
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07/18/1863 |
Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Regiment attacks Fort Wagner in South Carolina. |
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07/30/1863 |
Fifty-Fifth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry leaves Boston on board the Recruit for South Carolina. |
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11/19/1863 |
Edward Everett speaks at the dedication of the cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. |
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07/26/1864 |
John Wilkes Booth meets with representatives of the Confederate Secret Service in Boston. |
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10/19/1864 |
Capt. Charles Russell Lowell Jr. is killed in Virginia. |
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11/26/1864 |
President Abraham Lincoln’s letter to a Boston mother appears in the Boston Evening Transcript. |
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02/21/1865 |
News of the capture of Charleston, South Carolina, reaches Boston. |
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