He and his crew were captured off Portland, Maine on June 27, 1863, while attempting to take the.

A local newspaper printed in May 1863 says " The origin professes to be in commemoration of the wreck of a vessel at Minehead in remote times, or the advent of a sort of phantom ship which entered the harbour without Captain or crew.

On October 15, 1863, though he was not part of the crew, Hunley decided to take command during a routine exercise.

Having taken stores and gun accessories the ship lacked, along with added crew members, Maffitt waited for a violent storm before setting out on January 16, 1863.

On the night of October 5, 1863, Glassell and a crew of three in the diminutive torpedo boat David attacked the most powerful ship in the United States Navy, New Ironsides.

The tracks of the Philadelphia & Erie Railroad, however, had previously been placed in Driftwood in 1863.

The signing on June 28, 1859 of a concordat with the Holy See, which placed education under the oversight of the clergy and facilitated the establishment of religious institutes, led to a constitutional struggle which ended in 1863 with the victory of secular principles, making the communes responsible for education, though admitting the priests to a share in the management.

After Jackson's death of pneumonia, Hill was promoted on May 24, 1863, to lieutenant general and placed in command of the newly created Third Corps of Lee's army, which he led in the Gettysburg Campaign of 1863.

A Serious Fall in the Value of Gold ( 1863 ) and The Coal Question ( 1865 ) placed him in the front rank as a writer on applied economics and statistics ; and he would be remembered as one of the leading economists of the 19th century even had his Theory of Political Economy never been written.

In 1861, 100 were issued to five infantry battalions ; in 1863, an order of 2, 000 was placed for further trials.

The figure was placed in position on December 2, 1863.

In February 1863, he was placed in command of northwestern Arkansas and successfully recruited and outfitted one of the largest cavalry brigades west of the Mississippi.

In April 1863, Rust was once again transferred back to Arkansas and placed under Maj. Gen. Sterling Price.

In 1863, his remains were moved to Puebla by General Alejandro García and were placed in the Column of Independence in Mexico City.

In August 1863 he was appointed brigadier general of volunteers, and was placed in command of the Federal forces at Natchez, Mississippi.

Walter's fireproof cast iron dome was authorized by Congress on March 3, 1855, and was nearly completed by December 2, 1863, when the Statue of Freedom was placed on top.

He was promoted to major general on September 9, 1863, and placed in command of the District of Georgia and Florida.

He remained there until, in 1863, he was assigned to General Joseph Wheeler's cavalry in Tennessee and placed in charge of a scouting party.

Ellet was next placed in command of the ram Switzerland, in which he steamed past the Vicksburg fortifications in March 1863.

The XVIII Corps was created on December 24, 1862, and initially composed of five divisions stationed in North Carolina, making it one of the largest in the Union Army ( though two were detached to join the X Corps in early 1863 ), placed under the command of General John G. Foster.

The demand placed on it by the normal demands of a growing city, along with the burials of both Union soldiers and Confederate prisoners of war resulting from the American Civil War prompted the creation of a private board in 1863 to develop a new and larger cemetery.

In 1863, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the battle, a foundation stone was placed, but the memorial was not built.

However, at the time of issue, the " Statue of Freedom " was a work in progress and was not completed until 1862 and was not placed atop the Capitol dome until 1863.

In response to his conduct at Stones River, Maj. Gen. William Rosecrans placed Colonel Heg in command of the newly formed 3rd Brigade of the 1st Division, XX Corps, Army of the Cumberland, on 1 May 1863.

Wounded, he was placed in French captivity, but he was later released and served as a General in the 1863 Polish revolt against Russian rule.

i., Berlin, 1863 ; 1438-1454 ), small bronze cylinders inscribed, and used as oracles, were perhaps found here in the 16th century.

The Statue of Freedom — also known as Armed Freedom or simply Freedom — is a bronze statue designed by Thomas Crawford that, since 1863, has crowned the dome of the U. S. Capitol in Washington, D. C.

His bronze statue A Lucky Find at Pompeii ( Une Trouvaille à Pompei ) ( 1863 ) depicts a nude boy with a spade dancing for joy with one leg raised, because he has unearthed a Roman statuette.

Two bronze plaques installed by the Federal government in 1901 bear inscriptions relating to the movements of the Army of the Potomac on June 30 and July 1, 1863.

In 1863, bronze coins, produced by the Heaton mint of Birmingham, were issued.

The marble sculpture and a bronze head that had been retrieved at Herculaneum were published in Le Antichità di Ercolano, ( 1767 ) but were not identified as representing Polykleitos ' Doryphorus until 1863.

Among his works are: The White Captive ( I858 ) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ; Peace in Bondage ( 1863 ); Angel at the Sepulchre ( 1865 ), Albany, New York ; a bronze statue of Chancellor Robert R. Livingston ( 1874 ), in Statuary Hall, Capitol, Washington ; and many portrait busts.

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.

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 ).