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1862 - Battle of Farmington, Mississippi.

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1862 - Battle of Fort Pickens, Florida (Pensacola), evacuated by Confederates.

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1862 - US Naval Academy relocated from Annapolis, Maryland, to Newport, Rhode Island.

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1864 - "Uncle" John Sedgwick, US Union general-major, dies in battle at age 50.

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1864 - Thomas Donnely Doubleday, US Union Colonel, dies in an accident.

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1864 - Battle of Cloyd's Mount and Swift Creek, Virginia (Drewery's Bluff, Fort Darling).

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1864 - Battle of Dalton, Georgia.

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1864 - Skirmish at Ware Bottom Church, Virginia.

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1912 - American Numismatic Association receives federal charter.

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1914 - US President Woodrow Wilson signs a proclamation designating the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day.

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