George Kennan, an American working on the Western Union Telegraph Expedition in the late 1860s, found that dog sled travel on the lower Anadyr was limited by lack of firewood.

That is except for a small number built in the 1860s, and the last American clipper ship from the East Boston shipyard of Donald McKay in 1869, the Glory of the Seas.

Most clipper cards were printed in the 1850s and 1860s, and represented the first pronounced use of color in American advertising art.

Invented by Richard Gatling, it is known for its use by the Union forces during the American Civil War in the 1860s, which was the first time it was employed in combat.

Irish newcomers were sometimes uneducated and often found themselves competing with Americans for manual labour jobs or, in the 1860s, being recruited from the docks by the U. S. Army to serve in the American Civil War and afterward to build the Union Pacific Railroad.

* Irish Brigade ( US ) served on the Union side in the American Civil War in the 1860s.

This " Irish Republican Army " of the 1860s comprised the American Fenians ' paramilitary forces, organised into a number of regiments.

A political stalemate between the French-and English-speaking legislators, as well as fear of aggression from the United States during and immediately after the American Civil War, led the political elite to hold a series of conferences in the 1860s to effect a broader federal union of all British North American colonies.

After the American Civil War and with increasing capability, the United States government did not accept self-determination as a basis during its Purchase of Alaska and attempted purchase of the West Indian islands of Saint Thomas and Saint John in 1860s, or its growing influence in the Hawaiian Islands, that led to annexation in 1898.

Attempts to limit the influence of money on American political campaigns dates back to the 1860s.

The term is also used specifically to denote re-creation of the dances of the English Regency ( 1795 – 1820 ), American Civil War ( 1860s ), Victorian, and Ragtime eras.

The daedalum failed to become popular until the 1860s, when it was patented by both English and American makers, including Milton Bradley.

He grew to manhood during the 1860s, when the major issue, even in remote Tasmania, was the American Civil War and emancipation.

Ruth MacDonald argued that “ Louisa May Alcott stands as one of the great American practitioners of the girls ’ novel and the family story .” In the 1860s, gendered separation of children ’ s fiction was a newer division in literature.

With the end of the American Civil War in the 1860s, many discharged veterans looking to return home took to hopping freight trains.

* John Anderson ( escaped slave ), American slave who escaped to Canada in the 1860s, leading to a famous extradition case

Carronades were nevertheless still used in the American Civil War in the 1860s.

In the 1860s, an American, John Wesley Hyatt, acquired Parkes ' patent and began experimenting with cellulose nitrate with the intention of manufacturing billiard balls, which until that time were made from ivory.

Tanque Verde began as a small community, remote from Tucson, and settled by ranchers arriving to the American West around the 1860s.

In the 1860s, the Estudillo family began selling off portions of their rancho and through acquisitions, a small American community began to form.

Marysville was home to a significant Chinese American community in the 1860s, but it violently drove all its Chinese American residents out of town in February 1886.

Wheatland was home to a significant Chinese American community in the 1860s, but all of the Chinese American residents were driven out of town in a series of violent confrontations in February 1886.

The immense size of the Union army ( the largest on the planet toward the end of the Civil War ), however, was viewed with increasing concern by Maritimers throughout the early 1860s.

In the 1860 United States Census the slave population in the United States had grown to four million, and in Reconstruction after the Civil War ( late 1860s ) the newly freed slaves became citizens with ( in the case of men ) a nominal right to vote.

It was not until after the Civil War in the 1860s that steam-powered manufacturing overtook water-powered manufacturing, allowing the industry to fully spread across the nation.

Minié system rifles, notably the U. S. Springfield and the British Enfield of the early 1860s, featured prominently in the U. S. Civil War, due to their enhanced power and accuracy.

In the 1860s, aided by the Civil War, " New York "- style baseball expanded into a national game and spawned baseball's first governing body, The National Association of Base Ball Players, was formed.

Richmond emerged from the smoldering rubble of the Civil War as an economic powerhouse, with iron front buildings and massive brick factories. Canal traffic peaked in the 1860s and slowly gave way to railroads, allowing Richmond to become a major railroad crossroads, eventually including the site of the world's first triple railroad crossing.

During the 1860s Fort Worth suffered from the effects of the Civil War and Reconstruction.

* GatewaySet in the late 1860s, the series tells the story of two brothers as they try to build a new life after the Civil War in a town called Gateway.

Crawford County was historically part of the Cherokee Nation, which lost its tribal sovereignty status as a result of the U. S. Civil war in the 1860s.

Although, the town of Robards did not officially exist, in the 1860s, two of the chief battles of the American Civil War in this county took place at Robards.

Lewis and Clark passed through on the voyage of discovery in 1805, although the first white settlers, homesteaders and Civil War veterans in search of gold, did not arrive until the late 1860s.

When the Civil War broke out in the 1860s, New Port attempted to remain neutral.

After the Civil War, rich iron ore deposits were discovered in the area and ore was mined sporadically from the 1860s through 1900.

Another early example of a hospital ship was USS Red Rover in the 1860s, which aided the wounded soldiers of both sides during the American Civil War.

In the 1860s during the American Civil War, housing for a battery of four field artillery pieces was constructed at the tip of the peninsula.

In the 1860s, aided by the War, " New York " style baseball expanded into a national game, as its first governing body, The National Association of Base Ball Players was formed.

The emergence and development of the destroyer, up until World War II, was related to the invention of the self-propelled torpedo in the 1860s.

During the Second Opium War and the Taiping Rebellion, piratical junks were again destroyed in large numbers by British naval forces but ultimately it wasn't until the 1860s and 1870s that fleets of pirate junks ceased to exist.

A southern poet famous in the post-Civil War era, Paul Hamilton Hayne, moved to Copse Hill ( in the Parham Road area ) in the 1860s.