SERVED IN CIVIL WAR, FOURTH U.S. INFANTRY, COMPANY A; UNDER ROBERT C BUCHANAN RANK; FIRST LIEUTENANT, SEVERELY WOUNDED IN THE BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG, VA. ON DEC. 13, 1862, CAMP NEAR HENRY HOUSE, DIED DEC. 27 OF THOS WOUNDS 1830 BORN IN PA 1840 1850 1860 1862 - WOUNDED IN CIVIL WAR 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 1920
1860 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, Year: 1860; Census Place: Doylestown, Bucks, Pennsylvania; Roll: M653_1084; Page: 339; Image: 347; Family History Library Film: 805084 / Ancestry.com
The temperature on December 28, 1862 was about 7.9 °C. The air pressure was 14 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. Source: KNMI
From March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
February 15 » American Civil War: Confederates commanded by Brig. Gen. John B. Floyd attack General Ulysses S. Grant's Union forces Fort Donelson, Tennessee. Unable to break the fort's encirclement, Lloyd surrenders the following day.
April 5 » American Civil War: The Battle of Yorktown begins.
April 16 » American Civil War: The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia, becomes law.
May 15 » President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill into law creating the United States Bureau of Agriculture. It is later renamed the United States Department of Agriculture.
May 20 » U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law, opening 84million acres of public land to settlers.
November 5 » American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac.
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