1861 Washington Peace Convention to preserve Union; Congress of Montgomery Confederate States of America formed; Fort Sumpter attacked; Start of the American Civil War (April 12th); First American pretzel bakery opened; Income tax law adopted by Congress; First machine-chilled cold storage unit invented; Germ theory announced (Louis Pasteur); Pony Express. 1862 Emancipation Proclamation announced (President Lincoln); Department of Agriculture established; Speed of light measured; First international relief organization developed (Red Cross). 1863 National Academy of Sciences founded (Washington, D.C.); First breakfast cereal developed in America; French capture Mexico City; Roller skating introduced to America; Gettysberg Address (President Lincoln). |
Bacon was called sow-bosom by soldiers during the American Civil War? Biscuits were called "sinkers," "weevil fodder," or "death bells" by soldiers during the American Civil War. The term pork cartridge was soldiers? slang for pork sausage, and Sherman's pies were soldiers' slang for hard-tack. [5: 10] |
1864 Grant appointed Commander-in-Chief of Union troops; Sherman's March to the Sea; Sand Creek massacre; Montana recognized as a U.S. Territory; Death of popular songwriter, Stephen Foster; First salmon cannery opened (California); Neutrality of battlefield medical facilities established (Geneva Convention). 1865 Can opener invented; First railroad train robbery; Atlantic cable completed; Union stockyards opened in Chicago; Ice-making machine invented; Queensberry Rules regulating boxing announced; Adoption of 13th Amendment (slavery prohibited); Confederate States of America surrender at Appomattox (April 9th); President Lincoln assassinated (April 14th); End of American Civil War (May 26th). |
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