After the Civil War, Doubleday mustered out of the volunteer service on August 24, 1865, reverted to the rank of lieutenant colonel, and became the colonel of the 35th U. S. Infantry in September 1867.

The U. S. bought Alaska from the Russian Empire in 1867, and it annexed the Republic of Hawaii in 1898.

CPRR logo on a gilded " Staff " uniform button ( 1867 ) Construction of the road was financed primarily by 30-year, 6 % U. S. Government Bonds authorized by Sec.

* 1867 – Nebraska becomes the 37th U. S. state ; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and becomes the state capital.

* 1867 – The U. S. Congress passes the first Reconstruction Act.

* Treaty of Washington ( 1867 ), between the U. S. and the Potawatomi

View of Wall Street from corner of Broad Street, 1867: The building on the left was the U. S. Customs and Border Protection | U. S. Customs House.

Fay received U. S. patent 64, 088 on April 23, 1867.

In 1867, the U. S. House Committee on the Judiciary, led by Congressman William Lawrence, conducted an inquiry into the creation of a " law department " headed by the Attorney General and composed of the various department solicitors and United States attorneys.

Congress removed the civilian governments in the South in 1867 and put the former Confederacy under the rule of the U. S. Army.

Congress also clarified the scope of the federal writ of habeas corpus to allow federal courts to vacate unlawful state court convictions or sentences in 1867 ( 28 U. S. C.

The Act, § 15 of the appropriations bill for the Army for 1879, found at, was a response to, and subsequent prohibition of, the military occupation by U. S. Army troops of the former Confederate States during the ten years of Reconstruction ( 1867 – 1877 ) following the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ).

Up to that time, Alaskans had flown only the U. S. flag since the territory was purchased from Russia in 1867.

* Wild Bill Hickok ( 1837 – 1876 ), noted Western lawman, who served as a Deputy U. S. Marshal at Fort Riley, Kansas in 1867 – 1869

The first popular male impersonator in U. S. theater was Annie Hindle, who started performing in New York in 1867 ; in 1886 she married her dresser, Annie Ryan.

Their dialect of Russian ( plus a few words borrowed from Alaska Native languages ) was the primary language spoken in Ninilchik long past the purchase of Russia's interests in Alaska by the U. S. in 1867.

Meanwhile, the U. S. government established a trading post near Stranger Creek until the tribe was moved to the Indian Territory in 1867.

* John Charles Linthicum ( 1867 – 1932 ), U. S. Congressman, 1911-1932

It was renamed " Alaska " on December 4, 1868, undoubtedly influenced by the 1867 purchase of Alaska from Russia by the U. S. government.

* Robert S. Hale, U. S. Representative from New York, December 3, 1866 to March 3, 1867 and March 4, 1873 to March 3, 1875

Marsh was issued a U. S. patent for the general idea of a rack railway in September 1861, and in January 1867 for a practical rack where the gear teeth take the form of rollers arranged like the rungs of a ladder between two L-shaped wrought-iron rails.

A U. S. Post Office was established in 1857, and the town was finally incorporated in February 1867.

In Cummings v. Missouri, 71 U. S. 277 ( 1867 ), the Missouri constitution required anyone seeking a professional's license from the state to swear they had not supported the rebellion.

The technique of purification of drinking water by use of compressed liquefied chlorine gas was developed in 1910 in the U. S. by Major ( later Brigadier General ) Carl Rogers Darnall ( 1867 – 1941 ), Professor of Chemistry at the Army Medical School.

We can see the general characteristics of the earlier decade if we look at two poems of very different qualities: `` Revulsion '' ( 1866 ) and `` Neutral Tones '' ( 1867 ).

Alaska was purchased from Russia on March 30, 1867, for $ 7. 2 million ($ adjusted for inflation ) at approximately two cents per acre ($ 4. 74 / km² ).

In 1866, a joint resolution of the Texas Legislature was passed to have his body reinterred to the Texas State Cemetery in Austin The re-interment occurred in 1867.

Nobel invented dynamite in 1867, a substance easier and safer to handle than the more unstable nitroglycerin.

The first major expression of this were the Lambeth Conferences of the communion's bishops, first convened by Archbishop of Canterbury Charles Longley in 1867.

# The Lambeth Conference ( first held in 1867 ) is the oldest international consultation.

* 1867 – Evelina Haverfield English activist ( d. 1920 )

In 1867 gas street lighting was implemented, the University of Adelaide was founded in 1874, the South Australian Art Gallery opened in 1881 and the Happy Valley Reservoir opened in 1896.

* 1867 – Ernest Dowson, English poet ( d. 1900 )

* 1867 – Singapore becomes a British crown colony.

* 1867 – Stanley Baldwin, English politician ( d. 1947 )

* 1867 – Philipp August Böckh, German scholar and antiquarian ( b. 1785 )

* 1867 – Emil Nolde, German painter ( d. 1956 )

* 1867 – Wilbur Wright, American aviation pioneer ( d. 1912 )

* 1867 – Cupid Childs, American baseball player ( d. 1912 )

* 1867 – John Galsworthy, English novelist and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1933 )

* 1867 – Edith Hamilton, German-American author and educator ( d. 1963 )

* 1867 – James W. Gerard, American jurist and diplomat ( d. 1951 )

The first vote in the House to impeach the President occurred in the fall of 1867.

On November 21, 1867, the House Judiciary Committee produced a bill of impeachment: it had a broad collection of complaints against him, but as stated, these were not thought to be easily provable under the Constitution, which required evidence " as treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors.