* Atlas ( 1863 – 1885 ), one of the eight South Devon Railway Dido class steam locomotives

* 1863 – A 65-man French Foreign Legion infantry patrol fought a force of nearly 2, 000 Mexican soldiers to nearly the last man in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico.

* 1863 – Géza Gárdonyi, Hungarian writer and journalist ( d. 1922 )

** Haliotis varia f. dohrniana Dunker, 1863 – synonym: Haliotis dohrniana Dunker, 1863

* 1863 – American Civil War: following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis ( which is refused upon receipt ).

* 1863 – American Civil War: The Siege of Vicksburg – ships led by Union Admiral David Dixon Porter move through heavy Confederate artillery fire on approach to Vicksburg, Mississippi.

* 1863 – Ernest Thayer, American poet ( d. 1940 )

* Adrian Knox ( 1863 – 1932 ), Australian judge

* 1863 – The Anglo-Satsuma War begins between the Satsuma Domain of Japan and the United Kingdom ( Traditional Japanese date: July 2, 1863 ).

* 1863 – Aleksey Krylov, Russian engineer and mathematician ( d. 1945 )

* 1863 – The Dominican Restoration War begins when Gregorio Luperón raises the Dominican flag in Santo Domingo after Spain had recolonized the country.

* 1863 – American Civil War: In Charleston, South Carolina, Union batteries and ships bombard Confederate-held Fort Sumter.

* 1863 – Lawrence, Kansas is destroyed by Confederate guerrillas Quantrill's Raiders in the Lawrence Massacre.

Cl., 43 ( 1863 ) 491 – 528 online (= Gesammelte philologische Schriften ( Leipzig & Berlin 1911 ) 1. 117 – 155 )

* Alfonso Sanz y Martínez de Arizala ( 28 January 1880, Madrid – 1970 ), married in 1922 to María de Guadalupe de Limantour y Mariscal ( d. 1977, Marbella ), daughter of Julio de Limantour y Marquet ( 17 June 1863, Mexico City – 11 October 1909, Mexico City ) and wife Elena Mariscal y ..., paternal granddaughter of French Joseph Yves de Limantour y Rence de la Pagame ( 1812, Ploemeur – 1885, Mexico City ) and wife Adèle Marquet y Cabannes ( 1820, Bordeaux –?

* 1863 – American Civil War: Grierson's Raid begins – troops under Union Army Colonel Benjamin Grierson attack central Mississippi.

* 1863 – Richmond Bread Riot: Food shortages incite hundreds of angry women to riot in Richmond, Virginia and demand that the Confederate government release emergency supplies.

* 1921 – Arthur Mold, English cricketer ( b. 1863 )

* 1947 – Arthur Machen, Welsh author ( b. 1863 )

* Russell, Arthur T. ( 1863 ) Memoirs of the Life and Works of Lancelot Andrewes, Lord Bishop of Winchester.

* 1863 – Arthur Mold, English cricketer ( d. 1921 )

* 1944 – Arthur Quiller-Couch, English writer ( b. 1863 )

* 1935 – Arthur Henderson, Scottish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( b. 1863 )

* 1863 – Arthur Henderson, British politician, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1935 )

His given name was confused for that of his brother and heir, Arthur Marcus Cecil Sandys, 3rd Baron Sandys ( 1798 – 1863 ), in the story.

* October 24 – Arthur Bowen Davies, American artist ( b. 1863 )

* April 27 – Arthur Mold, English cricketer ( born 1863 )

* October 20 – Arthur Henderson, Scottish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( b. 1863 )

Arthur Machen ( 1863 – 1947 ), the author of many supernatural and fantastic fictions, lived at 23 Clarendon Road, Notting Hill Gate, in the 1880s ; he writes of his life here in his memoirs, Far Off Things ( 1922 ) and Things Near and Far ( 1923 ).

* Albert Edward Arthur Liddell ( 1863 – 28 May 1863 ).

( Other possible precursors are Monmouthshire-born Arthur Machen ( 1863 – 1947 ), and Joseph Keating ( 1871 – 1934 ), who began his working life as a South Wales miner.

Although the older of the two, established in 1863, was destroyed by the Nazis during the Kristallnacht, around 60, 000 graves still remain intact. The number of interred in this part of the cemetery is given as 79, 833 Jewish burials as of date July 10, 2011. Prominent burials here include those of the Rothschild family and that of the author Arthur Schnitzler.

* 1863 – 1895 Arthur Cayley

Arthur Henderson ( 20 September 1863 – 20 October 1935 ) was a British iron moulder and Labour politician.

Arthur Henderson was born at 10 Paterson Street, Anderston, Glasgow, Scotland in 1863, the illegitimate son of Agnes Henderson, a domestic servant.

Afterwards, in 1863, his father retired from the navy and later Arthur and his father returned to England.

Arthur Morrison ( 1863 – 1945 ), best known for his grim novels about London's East End, lived in Salcombe House, Loughton High Road.

He was succeeded in the earldom by his second but eldest surviving son, Arthur William Cairns, who left one daughter, and from whom the title passed to his two next younger brothers in succession, Herbert John, third Earl ( 1863 – 1905 ), and Wilfred Dallas, fourth Earl ( b. 1865 ).

Major Sir Frederic Arthur Kelley OBE ( 6 May 1863 – 29 May 1926 ) was a British Unionist Party politician, Justice of the Peace ( JP ) for the West Riding of Yorkshire and Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Rotherham from 1918 to 1923.

* Arthur George Egerton, 5th Earl of Wilton ( 1863 – 1915 )

* Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, set in 1863 during the American Civil War.

In 1863, the tsarist interior minister Pyotr Valuyev proclaimed in his decree that " there never has been, is not, and never can be a separate Little Russian language ".

An example may be seen in M. B. Moore's 1863 book The Dixie Primer, for the Little Folks.

This unit is most famous for being the regiment that confronted the 20th Maine on the Little Round Top during the Battle of Gettysburg on July 2, 1863.

In September 1863, Union forces occupied Little Rock.

Following the capture of Little Rock by the Union Army in 1863, the Confederate government moved the state government offices to Hot Springs for short time, then ultimately based the state government out of Washington, making it the Capital of Arkansas from 1863-1865.

Laurie ( 1863 ): " The Little Dutch Hero "

Following the fall of Little Rock in 1863, Arkansas ' Confederate government, led by Governor Harris Flanagin, went into exile.

The capitol at Little Rock, Arkansas fell to Union troops on September 10, 1863.

In 1863 Little Rock fell to Union troops and the Gazette suspended publication until May 1865 while Federal authorities used the presses for their own publications.

" While battlefield conditions make it unlikely that many men heard Chamberlain's order, most historians believe he initiated the charge. Little Round Top, western slope, photographed by Timothy H. O ' Sullivan, 1863.

The 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment was a regiment of the United States Army during the American Civil War, most famous for its defense of Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1863.

The most notable battle was the regiment's decisive role on July 2, 1863, in the Battle of Gettysburg, where it was stationed on Little Round Top at the extreme left of the Union line.

Washington served as a major trading point along the Southwest Trail, evolving into the Hempstead county seat and later the capitol of Arkansas from 1863 to 1865 when Little Rock was threatened during the Civil War.

While the tradition of journalism in Yiddish had a bit more of a history than in Hebrew, Kol Mevasser, which he supported from the outset and where he published his first Yiddish story " Dos Kleine Menshele " (" The Little Man ") in 1863, is generally seen as the first stable and important Yiddish newspaper.

The Battle of Bayou Fourche, sometimes called the Battle of Little Rock, was a battle in the American Civil War fought on September 10, 1863 east of the town of Little Rock, Arkansas.

Citizen Kane explores the life of the titular character, who is born of humble origins in the fictional settlement of Little Salem, Colorado, circa 1863.

Little is known of his early life, except that, until the accession of Ismail Pasha to the khediviate of Egypt in 1863, he occupied a humble position.

On July 2, 1863, during Gettysburg, Roebling was one of the initial officers on Little Round Top.

The Attack and Defense of Little Round Top: Gettysburg, July 2, 1863.

Having made a name in California, in 1863 Lotta left to tour the east coast where she began acting in plays such as The Old Curiosity Shop, Uncle Tom's Cabin and Little Nell and the Marchioness.

View from the summit of Little Round Top at 7: 30 P. M. July 3rd, 1863, painting by Edwin Forbes.

In 1863 she published General Frankie: a Story for Little Folks.