Video: 'Andersonville Prison'
(Wednesday, February 24, 1864; during the American Civil War) — According to the National Park Service, the first Union prisoners arrived at the Confederates’ Andersonville prison camp in Georgia. During its 14 months of existence, the overcrowded camp ended up holding some 45,000 men, more than four times its intended capacity; nearly 13,000 prisoners perished from disease, starvation or exposure.
Video: ‘National Geographic: Secret Weapon Of The Confederacy’
(Wednesday, February 17, 1864, 8:45 p.m.; during the American Civil War) — The H. L. Hunley, a submarine of the Confederate States of America, became the first submarine to engage and sink a warship, the USS Housatonic, at Charleston Harbor, Charleston, South Carolina. Five Union sailors were lost. Soon after, Hunley sank, killing all eight of her third crew.
(Tuesday, February 9, 1864, afternoon; during the American Civil War) — U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, escorted by artist Francis B. Carpenter, walked more than a mile today to Mathew Brady’s Washington studio, where he sat for several photographs, including a profile view later used on the Lincoln-head penny and another view for the five dollar bill.
Video: 'Civil War Missionary Ridge Radio Drama'
(Wednesday, November 25, 1863, 6 p.m. local time; during the Battle of Missionary Ridge, part of the Chattanooga Campaign of the American Civil War) — Following the Union victory in the Battle of Lookout Mountain yesterday, Union forces under Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant assaulted Missionary Ridge and defeated the Confederate Army of Tennessee, commanded by Gen. Braxton Bragg.
Video: 'Lookout Mountain Tennessee - Civil War Battle - Battle Above the Clouds'
(Tuesday, November 24, 1863; during the Battle of Lookout Mountain, part of the Chattanooga Campaign of the American Civil War) — Eastern Theater troops under Union Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker defeated the Confederates in the Battle of Lookout Mountain today in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and began a movement toward Gen. Braxton Bragg’s left flank at Rossville, Georgia.
(Monday, November 9, 1863; during the American Civil War) — U.S. President Abraham Lincoln watched actor John Wilkes Booth in the role of Raphael in The Marble Heart today from the same box at Ford’s Theatre in Washington that Lincoln would be assassinated by Booth 17 months later.
(Monday, October 19, 1863; in the Western Theater of the American Civil War) — Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, in command of the newly formed Division of the Mississippi, replaced Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans today as Commander of the Army of the Cumberland with Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas following last month’s defeat at the Battle of Chickamauga.
Video: Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation Speech with Music
(Saturday, October 3, 1863; during the American Civil War) — U.S. President Abraham Lincoln today proclaimed the last Thursday in November Thanksgiving Day in an attempt to foster a sense of American unity between the Northern and Southern states.
(Friday, August 21, 1863; during the American Civil War) — The pro-Union town of Lawrence, Kansas, was attacked today by William Quantrill’s pro-Confederate raiders, who killed an estimated 200 men and boys. The raid became notorious in the North as one of the most vicious atrocities of the Civil War.
Video: 'The Live Of Henry Ford'
(Thursday, July 30, 1863) — Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company and developer of modern mass production, was born today in what is now Dearborn, Michigan, just outside Detroit.
