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- Battle of Williamsburg
- Gen. "Stonewall" Jackson (CSA) continues his Valley Campaign
- Gen. McClellan (USA) continues his Peninsula Campaign
- Battle of Eltham's Landing a.k.a. Battle of West Point
- Continue debate in Congress over legality of Emancipation
- Gen. Hunter (USA) forms the first Union Army regiment of black soldiers; the First South Carolina Union Volunteers
- Gen. Hunter (USA), commander of the Department of the South, under martial law declares all slaves free in Georgia, Florida and South Carolina
- Lincoln rescinds Gen. Hunter's emancipation order
- Battle of Puebla in Mexico (Cinco de Mayo)
- Fearing capture, the CSS Virginia (Merrimac) is scuttled in the James River
- The U.S. Department of Agriculture is created
- The Homestead Act becomes law
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