But what the elements could not do was seriously threatened when Brigadier General William E. ( Grumble ) Jones reached Philippi while on the famous Jones-Imboden raid in May, 1863.

In the spring of 1863, Lincoln was optimistic about upcoming campaigns to the point of thinking the end of the war could be near if a string of victories could be put together ; these plans included Hooker's attack on Lee north of Richmond, Rosecrans ' on Chattanooga, Grant's on Vicksburg, and a naval assault on Charleston.

In it, he stated that " as a fit and necessary military measure, on January 1, 1863, all persons held as slaves in the Confederate states will thenceforward, and forever, be free.

The Emancipation Proclamation, issued on September 22, 1862, and put into effect on January 1, 1863, declared free the slaves in 10 states not then under Union control, with exemptions specified for areas already under Union control in two states.

The Gettysburg Address was delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers ' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863.

At the start of the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1, 1863, Doubleday's division was the second infantry division on the field to reinforce the cavalry division of Brig.

* 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.

In 1863, the crew of placed a bronze tablet on a spot called Selkirk's Lookout on a hill of the island in memory of his stay.

Based on internal textual references, " Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye " apparently dates from the early 1820s, while When Johnny Comes Marching Home was first published in 1863.

*" Oh My Darling, Clementine " ( 1884 ) is an American western folk ballad believed to have been based on another song called Down by the River Liv'd a Maiden ( 1863 ).

* 1863 – Matica slovenská, Slovakia's public-law cultural and scientific institution focusing on topics around the Slovak nation, is established in Martin.

Before his death in Herat, on June 9, 1863, Dost Mohammad Khan had nominated as his successor Sher Ali Khan, his third son, passing over the two elder brothers, Afzal Khan and Azam Khan.

A cattle market has been held in Abergavenny on its current site since 1863.

During the period 1825 – 1863 a sheep market was held at a site in Castle Street, to stop the sale of sheep on the streets of the town.

In 1863 Bahá ' u ' lláh was summoned to Constantinople ( Istanbul ), and thus his whole family including ` Abdu ' l-Bahá, then nineteen, accompanied him on his 110-day journey.

He married Helen Leech ( 1839 – 1932 ), the daughter of another wealthy cotton merchant and shipbuilder from Stalybridge, at Gee Cross on 8 August 1863.

Elements of the two armies initially collided at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863, as Lee urgently concentrated his forces there, his objective being to engage the Union army and destroy it.

Charles Spencer Chaplin was born on 16 April 1889 to Hannah Chaplin ( née Hill, 1865 – 1928 ) and Charles Chaplin Sr. ( 1863 – 1901 ).

Another, Livingstone's fruit bat, although plentiful when discovered by explorer David Livingstone in 1863, has been reduced to a population of about 120, entirely on Nzwani.

Matthew Gibson has shown that LeFanu used Dom Augustin Calmet's Treatise on Vampires and Revenants, translated into English in 1850 as The Phantom World, the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould's The Book of Were-wolves ( 1863 ), and his account of Elizabeth Bathory, Coleridge's Christabel, and Captain Basil Hall's Schloss Hainfeld ; or a Winter in Lower Styria ( London and Edinburgh, 1836 ).

* Virginia adopts a new Constitution, taking into account, among other things, all of the counties that had left Virginia in 1863 to form the new non-slave state of West Virginia.

In the meantime the town had got among other things both a judge ( 1848 ), a doctor ( 1859 ), a post office ( 1863 ), telegraphy ( 1872 ) and a railroad ( 1897 ).

* Great tribulation: or, things coming on the earth, 1863.

In 1863 were added some images that made it famous: imaginative drawings concerning the appearance of certain demons.

However in 1863 a disagreement between the two men concerning the judgment seat and the resurrection caused the groups associated with them, to separate and the rift was confirmed when the two groups registered ( for the purposes of conscientious objection in the American Civil War ) with different names in 1865.

Most interesting in these letters ( first published by S. Sachs in the Jahrbuch für Geschichte der Juden 1863 ; 3: 195-224 ) is the fund of information concerning the social and intellectual conditions of the Jews in Greece, Egypt, and Palestine.

With the Tanzimat era the regulation called " Regulation of the Armenian Nation " ( Turkish: " Nizâmnâme − i Millet − i Ermeniyân ") was introduced on March 29, 1863, over the Millet organization, which granted extensive privileges and autonomy concerning self − governance.

A provisional patent was granted in 1863 to the Spill brothers and Thomas James Briggs concerning " improvements in the manufacture of driving straps or bands and of flexible tubes or hose "

First published as a pamphlet by the Gawler Humbug Society in 1863, the name was chosen because " the Bunyip is the true type of Australian Humbug!

In 1863 the name of the Republic was changed officially to " United States of Colombia ", and in 1886 the country adopted its present name: " Republic of Colombia ".

It reopened for the third time in 1863 following a reorganization which also brought upon the school's first name change to " The Governors of Dalhousie College and University.

In 1863, the college reopened for its third time and was reorganized by another legislative act, which also added the word university into the school's name, changed to " The Governors of Dalhousie College and University.

His parents emigrated from Poland in 1863, changed their name from Pozerski to de Pomiane, and became French citizens.

Rutherford Stuyvesant, the 19th century New York developer, and his descendants are also descended from Pieter Stuyvesant, however Rutherford Stuyvesant changed his name from Stuyvesant Rutherford in 1863 to satisfy the terms of a will.

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

Although he left Hiram in 1861 to take up the Civil War command of Company A of the 42nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry, a regiment recruited from Hiram, Garfield's name appeared in the Institute's catalogs until 1863.

Rabodo, crowned queen on May 13, 1863 under the throne name of Rasoherina, reigned until her death on April 1, 1868.

The first " adoptee " was Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria ( b. 1863, not descended from Maria Beatrice Ricciarda d ' Este ), who took the name Austria-Este and in 1896 became the heir presumptive of the Habsburg Empire, but was murdered on 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo.

The General German Workers ' Association ( Allgemeiner Deutscher Arbeiterverein, ADAV ), founded in 1863, and the Social Democratic Workers ' Party ( Sozialdemokratische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands, SDAP ), founded in 1869, merged in 1875, under the name Socialist Workers ' Party of Germany ( Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands, SAPD ).

The first was the English Alpine Club ( founded in the winter of 1857 – 1858 ), followed in 1862 by the Austrian Alpine Club ( which in 1873 was fused, under the name of the German and Austrian Alpine Club, with the German Alpine Club, founded in 1869 ), in 1863 by the Italian and Swiss Alpine Clubs, and in 1874 by the French Alpine Club, not to mention numerous minor societies of more local character.

When county government was organized in 1863, the name was changed to Menominee.

The name of the office was " Lake " from April 10, 1858, until February 18, 1863, when it reverted to Cheshire.

The name changed to Norwalk on January 21, 1863 and operated until December 27, 1968.

It was first called " Stevens ' Landing " and had a post office with that name from January 1856 until January 1860 and from February 1863 until August 1868.

The township was organized with the name Waterloo in 1860 and renamed Elmwood by the state legislature in 1863.

Alder takes its name from Alder Creek ( named by Henry Edgar in 1863 ), the site of the second major gold discovery in Montana.

After Phillipsburg was incorporated as an independent municipality on March 8, 1861, the township changed its name to Lopatcong as of March 18, 1863, after a creek in the area.

The name of the Village itself was changed from Hartford to Oak Harbor on March 27, 1863.

There was already a Brownsville in Linn County, so when the post office was established in 1863, a more distinctive name was needed.

The name was shortened in 1863.

The city of " Hickory Tavern " was established in 1863 and the name was eventually changed to " Hickory " in 1873.