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.

* In the 1860s, American Civil War nurse Maureen Hellstrom used anise seeds as an early form of antiseptic.

* 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.

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 1860s also saw the first major Congressional disputes over the issue, with the House and Senate voting to veto the appointment of John P. Stockton to the Senate due to his approval by a plurality rather than a majority.

It was led by the artist and writer William Morris ( 1834 – 1896 ) and the architect Charles Voysey ( 1857 – 1941 ) during the 1860s, and was inspired by the writings of John Ruskin ( 1819 – 1900 ) and Augustus Pugin ( 1812 – 1852 ).

Alternatively, the name was reported by Queanbeyan newspaper owner John Gale in the 1860s to be an anglicisation of the indigenous name ' nganbra ' or ' nganbira ', meaning " hollow between a woman's breasts ", and referring to the Sullivans Creek floodplain between Mount Ainslie and Black Mountain.

By the 1860s top artists in the west were illustrating for children, including Crane, Randolph Caldecott, Kate Greenaway and John Tenniel.

Vanceboro was selected as the border crossing for the European and North American Railway ( E & NA ) between Bangor, Maine, and Saint John, New Brunswick, during surveys in the 1860s.

The Wendell House on East River Road was built in the late 1860s by the John Wendell whom married the granddaughter of William Macomb.

The operation of local prisons in locations such as castles had been criticised, since John Howard's work in the 1770s, and pressure for reform continued to grow in the 1850s and 1860s.

People described themselves as members of a third sex in Europe from at least the 1860s with the writings of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs and continuing in the late nineteenth century with Magnus Hirschfeld, John Addington Symonds, Edward Carpenter, Aimée Duc and others.

As John Stuart Mill, writing in the 1860s said, " she could acquire no property but for him, the instant it becomes hers even if by inheritance, it becomes ipso facto his.

Several records remain of documented breeding by John Russell between the 1860s and 1880s.

Govan's other major shipbulding firm was founded in the 1860s as Randolph, Elder and Company, later becoming John Elder and Company.

John B. Arpin and his twin brother Antoine came from Quebec and had been logging in this part of Wisconsin since the 1860s.

The story goes that the dam was built in the 1860s by Dutch brothers, Herman and John Tiedemann, to provide water for the sluicing of their Victoria Hill gold claims.

John Thomas Toohey and his brother James Matthew ran pubs in Melbourne ( The Limerick Arms and The Great Britain ) before moving to Sydney in the 1860s.

In the 1860s, American explorer Charles Francis Hall's in a two-masted ship, Monticello, while searching for John Franklin's lost Northwest Passage expedition of 1845, reached Roes Welcome Sound in 1864 and had to overwinter at the mouth of Wager Bay.

Cable and Wireless traces its history back to a number of British telegraph companies founded in the 1860s, and cites Sir John Pender as the founder.

In the 1860s John Pound, a developer, erected houses in the south-east quadrant, Orchard Terrace on Eltham Road and Crown Terrace on Burnt Ash Lane ( now Road ).

Whitney was born in Williamsburgh Township in 1843 and attended Cornwall Grammar School before articling the law office of John Sandfield Macdonald in the 1860s, but did not resume his legal studies until 1871.

John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland | Lord John Manners, later 7th Duke of Rutland, who served thrice as First Commissioner of Works in the 1850s and 1860s

John Jervis Broadwood ( a descendent of John Broadwood ) occupied it in the 1860s.