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1860
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Dec.
20: South Carolina is the first state to secede
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1861
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Feb.
4: Provisional Confederate Government formed at Montgomery, Ala
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Feb.
9: Election of Jefferson Davis as Provisional President, and Alexander H.
Stephens of Georgia as Vice-President
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Feb.
21: Confederate post office established
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Mar.
6: John H. Reagan appointed Postmaster-General
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April
2: First proposal for postage stamps advertised
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April
12: First shots of the War fired on Fort Sumter, S.C
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Apr.
19: H. St. George Offutt appointed Chief of Contract Bureau; B. N.
Clements of Appointment Bureau, and John N. Harrell, Chief of Finance
Bureau
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May
31: Last day of use of U.S. stamps in Confederacy
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June
1: Severance of postal service between the Confederate and the United
States
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Act
establishing the letter rate of five cents for 500 miles, and double that
for distances exceeding 500 miles
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June
5: Earliest known use of press-printed entire, Lynchburg, Virginia
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June
7: Earliest known use of adhesive provisional stamps, Hillsboro, North
Carolina, and Marion Virginia
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July
1: First Battle of Manassas (Bull Run)
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July
29: Act permitting officers, musicians and privates in the army of the
Confederacy to send letters without prepayment of postage, but such
postage to be collected upon the delivery of such letters
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Oct.
16: Hoyer & Ludwig's 5c Green issued
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Nov.
7: Port Royal, S.C. occupied by U.S. troops as permanent base
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Nov.
8: Hoyer & Ludwig's 10c Blue issued
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1862
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Feb.
6: Fall of Fort Henry, Tenn
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Feb.
23: Nashville, Tenn. occupied by U.S. troops
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Feb.
28: Hoyer & Ludwig's 5c Blue issued
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Mar.
10: Hoyer & Ludwig's 10c Rose issued
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Mar.
11: St. Augustine, Fla, captured by Federal troops
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Mar.
12: Jacksonville, Fla. evacuated by Confederates
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Mar.
i4: New Bern, N.C. occupied by Federal troops as permanent base
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Mar.
14: New Madrid, Mo. captured by Federal troops
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Mar.
21: Hoyer & Ludwig's 2c Green issued
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Apr.
6-7: Battle of Shiloh
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Apr.
16: Thos. de la Rue & Co. 5c Blue EKU
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May
1: Fall of New Orleans, La
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May
7: Fall of Baton Rouge, La
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May
10: Fall of Pensacola, Fla
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May
10: Norfolk, Va. occupied by Federal troops as permanent base
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June
6: Fall of Memphis, Tenn
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June
26: Beginning of the Seven Days Battles
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July
1: Letter rate raised from 5c to 10c
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July
25: J. T Paterson & Co., 10c Blue EKU
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Aug.
13: 5c Richmond Print EKU
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Aug.
23-25: Second Battle of Manassas
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Sept.
16-17: Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam)
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Oct.
4: Fall of Galveston, Tex
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Dec.
13: Battle of Fredericksburg
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1863
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Apr.
19: Archer & Daly's 10c Frameline EKU
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Apr.
21: Archer & Daly's 2c Red and 10c Die A EKU
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Apr.
23: Archer & Daly's "TEN" Cents EKU
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May
1: Archer & Daly's 10c Die B EKU
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May
1-4: Battle of Chancellorsville
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May
14: Fall of Jackson, Miss
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June
1: Archer & Daly's 20c Green EKU
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June
27: The farthest north of the Confederacy.
Ewell's Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, reaches Carlisle,
Pa
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July
1-3: Battle of Gettysburg, Pa
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July
4: Fall of Vicksburg, Miss
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July
9: Fall of Port Hudson, La. From
this date communications between the States east and west of the
Mississippi were cut and the Confederate postal service west of the river
was directed from the Texas sub-office at Marshall, Tex
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Sept.
9: Chattanooga, Tenn. evacuated by the Confederates
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Sept.
19-20: Battle of Chickamaugua, Tenn
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Sept.
23-25: Bragg's army driven from the heights around Chattanooga, Tenn
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1864
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Mar.
16: Alexandria, La. evacuated by the Confederates
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May
5-7: Battle of the Wilderness
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May
8-18: Battles around Spottsylvania Courthouse, Va
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July
1: Siege of Petersburg, Va. begins, continuing to the end of the war
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Sept.
2: Fall of Atlanta, Ga
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Sept.
15: Federal troops begin march from Atlanta to the sea
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Nov.
7: Keatinge & Ball's 10c EKU
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Dec.
21: Fall of Savannah, Ga
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1865
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Feb.
17: Columbia, S.C. captured and burned. Stamp plates sunk in Congaree
River
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Feb.
18: Charleston, S.C., evacuated by Confederates
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Feb.
22: Fall of Wilmington, N.C
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Apr.
3: Fall of Richmond and Petersburg, Va
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Apr.
9: Surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox, Va
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Apr.
12: The City of Mobile, Ala. falls, a full year after the battle in the
Bay
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Apr.
13: Raleigh, N.C. occupied
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Apr.
26: Surrender by Gen. Johnston
of the Army of Tennessee, near Durham, N.C
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May
4: Surrender by Gen. Taylor of Alabama and Mississippi Department at
Citronelle, Ala
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May
10: Jefferson Davis and Postmaster-General Reagan captured at Irwinsville,
Ga
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May
26: Surrender by Gen. Kirby Smith of the troops of the Trans-Mississippi
Department, the last armed forces of the Confederacy
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June
2: Galveston, Tex., finally occupied by Federals
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June
28: The last shot of the war fired by the Confederate Cruiser Shenandoah,
isolated in the North Pacific
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