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Jackson breaks Tyler's line at Port Republic; Frémont's army watches, stranded across the flooded South Fork

Taylor's Louisiana brigade takes the Coaling, loses it, and takes it again before the Union line finally gives way, leaving Jackson's 17,000 men free to march on Richmond.

By early June 1862, three Union armies were closing in on Stonewall Jackson from different directions, each hoping to trap him in the Shenandoah Valley. On June 9, Jackson's forces fought Brig. Gen. Erastus B. Tyler's men at Port Republic, Virginia — a brutal, costly engagement that saw Richard Taylor's Louisiana brigade take and lose and retake the key artillery position at the Coaling before finally holding it. With the Union line broken, Tyler withdrew and Frémont's army, watching from across the rain-swollen South Fork, arrived too late to intervene. Jackson was now free to march his 17,000 men to Richmond…

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Three years after watching his friend die in Fleet Prison, Oglethorpe and his partners secure the Province of Georgia as a haven for the "worthy poor" and a military buffer to the south.

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Meade stands down the Army of the Potomac; it ceases to exist, two years to the day after he took command

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1864

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1863

Hill's men march on Gettysburg for supplies; Buford's cavalry is waiting on the ridges

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1863

Out of ammunition, Chamberlain orders the bayonet; the 20th Maine sweeps Little Round Top

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Jackson breaks Tyler's line at Port Republic; Frémont's army watches, stranded across the flooded South Fork

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Providence men row out at night and burn HMS Gaspee to the waterline

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Meade stands down the Army of the Potomac; it ceases to exist, two years to the day after he took command

Lincoln signs Yosemite Valley over to California; the federal government sets aside scenic land for the public for the first time

Hill's men march on Gettysburg for supplies; Buford's cavalry is waiting on the ridges

Out of ammunition, Chamberlain orders the bayonet; the 20th Maine sweeps Little Round Top

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