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  2. On this day in history, October 24, 1861, transcontinental ...

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    The transcontinental telegraph was completed on Oct. 24, 1861, making possible instant communication between the coasts possible for the first time. It rendered the Pony Express obsolete.

  3. Battle of Cheat Mountain - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Cheat Mountain, also known as the Battle of Cheat Summit Fort, took place from September 12 to 15, 1861, in Pocahontas County and Randolph County, Virginia (now West Virginia) as part of the Western Virginia Campaign during the American Civil War. It was the first battle of the Civil War in which Robert E. Lee led troops into ...

  4. Battle of Barbourville - Wikipedia

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    During April 15, 1861, the day after the U.S. Army surrendered Fort Sumter to the Confederates, President Abraham Lincoln called upon the States remaining in the Union to provide volunteers to suppress the insurrection in the seven States [2] which had seceded from the Union by that date. [3]

  5. John Quincy Marr - Wikipedia

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    The monument reads: "This stone marks the scene of the opening conflict of the war of 1861–1865, when John Q. Marr, captain of the Warrenton Rifles, who was the first soldier killed in action, fell 800 feet south, 46 degrees West of the spot. June 1, 1861. Erected by the Marr Camp, C.V., June 1, 1904." [18]

  6. Fighting had not started, but Lincoln won the day on July 4 ...

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    Alan Guebert shares parts of an essay, written by historian Ted Widmer, that examines Abraham Lincoln's 1861 Fourth of July, his first as president. Fighting had not started, but Lincoln won the ...

  7. John Merryman - Wikipedia

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    John Merryman (August 9, 1824 – November 15, 1881) of Baltimore County, Maryland, was arrested in May 1861 and held prisoner in Fort McHenry in Baltimore and was the petitioner in the case "Ex parte Merryman" which was one of the best known habeas corpus cases of the American Civil War (1861–1865).

  8. Battle of Chustenahlah - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Chustenahlah was fought in Osage County, Oklahoma, (then Indian Territory) on December 26, 1861, during the American Civil War.A band of 9,000 pro-Union Native Americans was forced to flee to Kansas in bitter cold and snow in what became known as the Trail of Blood on Ice.

  9. Squid Game season 1 recap: Who won, who died, who wore ... - AOL

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    When Squid Game first arrived on our screens in September 2021, it very quickly took the world by storm. Within just four weeks, the blood-soaked dystopian survival series had racked up 1.65 ...