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Quantrill is shot in the back and paralyzed; Union hunters corner him in a Kentucky barn

Terrell's guerrilla hunters trap the raider who burned a quarter of Lawrence and killed some 150 men and boys, and he is now paralyzed from the chest down.

The Civil War was effectively over — Lee had surrendered at Appomattox on April 9, Johnston to Sherman on April 26 — but William Quantrill was still riding. In May 1865, the guerrilla leader who had burned a quarter of Lawrence, Kansas, and killed some 150 men and boys two years earlier was cornered in a barn near Wakefield, Kentucky, by a band of Union guerrilla hunters under Edwin W. Terrell. Shot in the back and paralyzed from the chest down, Quantrill lingered in a military prison hospital on Broadway in Louisville for nearly a month before dying on June 6, at twenty-seven…

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1775

Allen and Arnold take Ticonderoga; not a shot is fired

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1775

Twelve colonies convene in Philadelphia; no army, no treasury, a war already begun

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1946

A V-2 rises over White Sands; America fires a German rocket on its own soil for the first time

The missile that killed an estimated 9,000 civilians in London and Antwerp flies without a warhead, guided by manuals translated from German, as its builders work nearby under Operation Paperclip.
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Lord North's bill rescues the East India Company's eighteen million pounds of unsold stock, but colonists see the bargain price as bait to make them accept Parliament's right to tax.
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1862

CSS Arkansas steams alone through two Union fleets; Vicksburg's guns shelter her by nightfall

Lt. Brown's ironclad fights down the Yazoo, batters the Carondelet, Lancaster, and Pinola at close range, and reaches port with 30 casualties.
1870

Georgia is readmitted; the last Confederate state formally returns to the Union

Five years after Appomattox, Georgia completes the steep terms of Reconstruction, ratifying the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and seating Black legislators under the new rules.
1863

Shaw is killed at the parapet; the 54th Massachusetts storms Fort Wagner

One of the first Black regiments in the Union Army leads the beach assault on Charleston harbor's fort, suffering heavy losses but silencing doubts about whether these soldiers will fight.
1864

Hood's first attack as commander breaks against Thomas's line north of Atlanta

Two days into the job, the new Confederate commander throws two corps at Sherman's advancing army and cannot make them give ground.
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