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1863-04-17Vermillion Bayou

Confederate defenders under General Taylor harass Federal troops advancing on Port Hudson, Louisiana.

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1863-04-131863-04-15Norfleet House Battery

Federal attempts to drive Confederate defenders out of their position at the Norfleet House Battery.

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1863-04-121863-04-13Bethel Place

Gen Benjamin Butler sent converging columns from Hampton and Newport News against advanced Confederate outposts at Little and Big Bethel churches

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1863-04-111863-05-04Hill's Point

On April 19, a detachment of the 8th Connecticut and the 89th New York landed on Hill's Point and launched an amphibious assault on Fort Huger.

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1863-04-10Franklin

This engagement at Franklin was a reconnaissance in force by Confederate cavalry leader Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn, coupled with an equally inept response by Union Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger.

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1863-04-07Fort Sumter

South Carolina adopted an ordinance declaring its secession from the Union shortly after Abraham Lincoln's victory in the presidential election of 1860, and by February 1861, six more Southern states had adopted similar ordinances of secession

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1863-03-301863-04-20Washington

Following the Confederate victory at Fredericksburg, General Robert E. Lee felt confident enough to dispatch a large portion of his army to deal with Union occupation forces along the coast.

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1863-03-25Brentwood

Union Col Edward Bloodgood held Brentwood, a station on the Nashville & Decatur Railroad, with 400 men on the morning of , when Confederate Gen Nathan Bedford Forrest, with a powerful column, approached the town

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1863-03-20Milton

A bridgade sized reconnaissance under Col Hall successfully defended multiple attacks by Confederate Brig. Gen. Morgan's cavalry force. Morgan broke off the engagement, after learning that Union reinforcements were en route from Murfreesboro.

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1863-03-17Kellysville

The 'first real, and perhaps the most brilliant, cavalry fight of the whole war' and it set the stage for Brandy Station and other cavalry actions of the Gettysburg Campaign that summer

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