Tornado Alley (PROG)

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Edit: kozuh .. following on hookrider's reply you left out ..

# 1861 - Jefferson Davis elected President of the Confederacy
# 1861 - American Civil War begins at Fort Sumter
# 1861 - First Battle of Bull Run (First Battle of Manassas)
# 1862 - Battle of Hampton Roads (Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack; first ever naval battle between iron-sided ships)
# 1862 - Homestead Act
# 1862 - Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act
# 1862 - Gen. Robert E. Lee placed in command of the Army of Northern Virginia
# 1862 - Second Battle of Bull Run (Second Battle of Manassas)
# 1862 - Battle of Antietam (Battle of Sharpsburg)
# 1862 - Dakota War of 1862 begins
# 1862–1863 - Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation
# 1863 - Battle of Gettysburg
# 1863 - The Siege of Vicksburg ends
# 1863 - New York Draft Riots
# 1863 - Pro-Union Virginia counties become separate state of West Virginia
# 1864 - Gen. Ulysses S. Grant put in command of all Union forces
# 1864 - Wade–Davis Bill
# 1864 - Sand Creek Massacre
# 1864 - Nevada becomes a state
# 1864 - U.S. presidential election, 1864
# 1864 - Sherman's March to the Sea
# 1865 - Robert E. Lee made commander-in-chief of all Confederate forces
# 1865 - Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate capital, captured by a corps of black Union troops
# 1865 - Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Court House
# 1865 - Abraham Lincoln assassinated; Andrew Johnson becomes President
# 1865 - American Civil War ends as the last elements of the Confederacy surrender
# 1865 - 13th Amendment passes, permanently outlawing slavery
# 1865 - Freedman's Bureau
# 1866 - Civil Rights Act of 1866
# 1866 - Ku Klux Klan founded .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_history_%281860%E2%80%931899%29

Good one, hook..... .. yup, they tried taht ..

Edit: Have you read this beauty from F6? .. How Slavery Really Ended in America ..
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=61643992&txt2find=butler

Maj. General Ben Butler .. a bonzer read!