U.S. Civil War History
1861 - Jefferson Davis was elected President of the Confederate States of America. Davis was informed the next day.
1864 - Union General George Armstrong Custer and Elizabeth Bacon were married in Monroe, Michigan. Custer was killed on June 25, 1876, by Lakota and Northern Cheyenne Indians at the Battle of the Little Big Horn in Montana.
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| "By some strange operation of magic I seem to have become the power of the land." - George McClellan spoke this self-appraisal shortly after he assumed command of the Union forces around Washington in 1861 |