*" 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 ).

In 1863 this state legislature permitted its western counties to split off and become the state of West Virginia.

President Lincoln put Grant in command of the newly formed Division of the Mississippi in October 1863 ; Grant was then effectively in charge of the entire western war front for the Union, except for Louisiana.

General Order No. 11 is the title of a Union Army decree issued during the American Civil War on 25 August 1863, forcing the evacuation of rural areas in four counties in western Missouri.

The world's First Transcontinental Railroad was built between 1863 and 1869 to join the eastern and western halves of the United States.

The surveyors also extended the boundary line to run between Pennsylvania and colonial western Virginia ( which became West Virginia during the American Civil War, on June 20, 1863 ), though this was contrary to their original charter ; this extension of the line was only confirmed later ( see Yohogania County for details ).

In 1863, a shipment of supplies for Union outposts on the western frontier ran aground on a mud flat exposed by a drought's shifting of the Missouri River.

In 1863, using a north-to-south dividing line, the Union created its own Arizona Territory out of the western half of the New Mexico Territory.

In another Civil War event, in response to Quantrill's Raid on Lawrence, Kansas, and the many civilian casualties there, the U. S. Army General Order No. 11 ( 1863 ) ordered the near-total evacuation of three and a half counties in western Missouri, south of Kansas City, which were subsequently looted and burned by U. S. Army troops.

This border area at the western edge of the Yucatán Peninsula was previously part of the state of Yucatán, then of Tabasco ; since 1863 it has been part of the state of Campeche.

" 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.

Charlie Soong was born as Han Jiaozhun ( 韓教準 ) in the western suburbs of Wenchang City, Hainan, China as the third son of Han Hongyi ( 韓鴻翼 Hán ​ Hóngyì ​) sometime between 1863 and 1866.

On 1 October 1863 the Wycombe Railway opened a branch line from Princes Risborough railway station to Aylesbury railway station on the western side of Aylesbury, leaving Aylesbury as the terminus of two small and unconnected branch lines.

The January Uprising ( Polish: powstanie styczniowe, Lithuanian: 1863 m. sukilimas, Belarusian: Паўстанне 1863-1864 гадоў ) was an uprising in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ( present-day Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Latvia, parts of Ukraine, western Russia ) against the Russian Empire.

In Lithuania, Belarus, Latvia, northern Ukraine and western Russia the uprising started on February 1, 1863.

* Tom Ketchum ( 1863 – 1901 ), American western outlaw

* Exploration-British North America: The journals, detailed reports, and observations relative to the exploration, by Captain Palliser, of that portion of British North America, which, in latitude, lies between the British boundary line and the height of land or watershed of the northern or frozen ocean respectively, and in longitude, between the western shore of Lake Superior and the Pacific Ocean during the years 1857, 1858, 1859, and 1860 ( 1863 )

It did that in western Missouri, as Brigadier General Thomas Ewing issued General Order No. 11 on 25 August 1863, ordering the immediate evacuation of all persons living in four western counties.

In 1863 Congress created Arizona Territory from the western part of New Mexico Territory.

On February 24, 1863, during the American Civil War, Congress established the new Arizona Territory by splitting off the western portion of the New Mexico Territory -- lands that would ultimately become the state of Arizona and the southernmost part of Nevada.

This territory consisted of the southern half of New Mexico Territory, in contrast to the Arizona Territory established by the Union in 1863, which was the western half.

The Confederate territory overlapped the Arizona Territory created by the Union government in 1863, but the physical geography differed in that the Confederate Arizona Territory was approximately the southern half of the pre-existing New Mexico Territory, while the Union Arizona Territory was approximately the western half of what had been New Mexico Territory.

Fort Manhassett was a series of earthworks constructed by the Confederacy in 1863 to defend the western approaches to Sabine Pass.

Nestor Dmytriw ( 1863 – May 27, 1925 ) was a Ukrainian Catholic priest, author and translator.

Following the gradual loss of Ukraine's autonomy and suppression of the local Ukrainian and Polish cultures, Kiev experienced growing Russification in the 19th century by means of Russian migration, administrative actions ( the Valuev Circular of 1863 ), and social modernization.

* 1863 – Horatio Parker, American composer ( d. 1919 )

* August 2 – Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer ( b. 1863 )

Pietro Antonio Stefano Mascagni (; December 7, 1863 – August 2, 1945 ) was an Italian composer most noted for his operas.

* April 24-Camille Erlanger, opera composer ( b. 1863 )

Ernesto Júlio de Nazareth ( March 20, 1863 – February 5, 1934 ) was a Brazilian composer and pianist, especially noted for his creative Maxixe and Choro compositions.

Among his works as a composer are Royal Wedding Serenata ( 1863 ), concert overture Les Travailleurs de la mer ( 1869 ), the oratorio Gideon ( produced Gloucester, 1871 ), overture to William Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost ( 1875 ), Piano Concerto in A minor, marches and songs.

* July 27 – Luigi Felice Rossi, composer and musicologist ( d. 1863 )

* February 26 – Giuseppe Lillo, opera composer ( d. 1863 )

* November 25 – Franz Xaver Gruber, organist and composer of " Silent Night " ( d. 1863 )

* June 14 – Mathilda d ' Orozco, composer ( died 1863 )

* July 20-Sophie Lebrun, pianist and composer, daughter of Ludwig August Lebrun ( died 1863 )

* September 21 – Louis-Emmanuel Jadin, composer, pianist and harpsichordist ( c. 1863 )

* Jessie L. Gaynor ( 1863 – 1921 ), composer of children's music

Horatio William Parker ( September 15, 1863 – December 18, 1919 ) was an American composer, organist and teacher.

Leslie Stuart ( 15 March 1863 – 27 March 1928 ) was an English composer of Edwardian musical comedy, best known for the hit show Florodora ( 1899 ) and many popular songs.

Paul Antonin Vidal ( 16 June 1863 – 9 April 1931 ) was a French composer, conductor and music teacher mainly active in Paris.

The opera The Brandenburgers in Bohemia composed by Czech composer Bedřich Smetana in 1863 was inspired by this battle and following events as well.

Sir Arthur Somervell ( 5 June 1863 – 2 May 1937 ) was an English composer, and after Hubert Parry one of the most successful and influential writers of art song in the English music renaissance of the 1890s-1900s.

* Mat ( h ) ilda Valeria Beatrix Gyllenhaal ( 1796 – 1863 ), née de Orozco, singer, composer and socialite ( married in her third marriage to cavalry lieutenant baron Carl Alexander Fredrik Gyllenhaal, son of Carl Henrik G .).

* Franz Xaver Gruber, composer of the Silent Night Christmas carol, born November 25, 1787 in Unterweitzberg, Hochburg-Ach, died June 7, 1863 in Hallein

* Felix von Weingartner ( 1863 – 1942 ), Austrian conductor, composer, pianist and writer

* Max Reger ( 1863 – 1917 ), German composer, conductor, pianist and organist

Notable natives and residents include the Slovenian economist Ivan Ples ( 1886 – 1958 ), composer Andrej Volarič ( 1863 – 1895 ), and the Italian Jesuit philologist Gregorio Alasia de Sommaripa ( 1587 – 1626 ), who compiled the first Italian-Slovene dictionary in 1601.

His wife, Mrs. G. A. à Beckett ( 1817 ?– 1863 ) was a composer.