Jul 15 Troop train loaded with Confederate prisoners collided with a coal train killing 65 and injuring 109 of 955 aboard

Jul 30 Petersburg Campaign-Battle of the Crater

Jul 28 Atlanta Campaign-Battle of Ezra Church

Mar 10 Grant is named commander of the Union armies

Mar 29 Union General Steeles troops reach Arkadelphia AR

Mar 14 Rossini's "Petite Messe Solennelle", premieres in Paris France

Mar 29 Great Britain gives Isotope Islands back to Greece

Mar 21 Battle at Henderson's Hill (Bayou Rapids) Louisiana

Mar 07 Battle of Wilderness ends (total losses USA-17,666; CSA-7,500)

Mar 23 Encounter at Camden AR

Mar 01 Rebecca Lee (US) becomes first black woman to receive a medical degree

Mar 18 Dale Dike on Humber River crumbles drowning some 240

Mar 05 The first track meet between Oxford & Cambridge

Mar 14 Samuel Baker discovers another source of the Nile in East Africa and names it Lake Albert Nyanza.

Mar 07 Battle of Wilderness ends (total losses: USA-17,666; CSA-7,500)

Mar 09 Ulysses S Grant is appointed commander of Union Army

Mar 25 Battle of Paducah KY (Forrest's raid)

Mar 10 Red River campaign Louisiana

Mar 11 Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta), Tennessee

Mar 14 Union troops occupy Fort de Russy, Louisiana

Mar 15 Red River Campaign-Union forces reach Alexandria LA

Mar 01 Louis Ducos du Hauron patents movie machine (never built)

Mar 07 Skirmish at Port Walthall Junction VA (Drewry's Bluff)

Mar 30 Skirmish at Mount Elba AR

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