Person report

★08 Jun 1862
American Civil War: The Confederate Army won a resounding victory at the Battle of Cross Keys, one of the two decisive battles in Jackson's Valley Campaign.

★31 Dec 1862
American Civil War: The Battle of Stones River in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, began in an engagement where both sides would suffer their highest casualty rates of the war.

★14 Dec 1863
American Civil War: The Battle of Bean's Station, the final battle of the Knoxville campaign, was fought in Grainger County, Tennessee.

★23 Jun 1865
Stand Watie became the last Confederate general to surrender in the American Civil War.

★25 Feb 1866
Miners in Calaveras County, California, discovered a human skull that a prominent geologist claimed was proof that humans had existed during the Pliocene age.

★30 Mar 1867
U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward negotiated the purchase of Alaska for US$7.2 million from Russia.

★05 Oct 1869
During construction of the Hennepin Island tunnel in St. Anthony, Minnesota, U.S., the Mississippi River broke through the tunnel's limestone ceiling, nearly destroying Saint Anthony Falls.

★02 Sep 1870
Franco-Prussian War: Prussian forces captured Napoleon III in Sedan, France; the Second French Empire collapsed within days.

★22 Nov 1873
The French steamship Ville du Havre collided with a Scottish iron clipper in the North Atlantic and sank with the loss of 226 lives.

★09 Aug 1877
Nez Perce War: Both Nez Perce and United States Army sides suffered numerous casualties as they fought to a stalemate in the Battle of the Big Hole.

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