Brigadier General Ulysses Simpson (a.k.a. Hiram Ulysses) Grant, commanding the compulsory Union Army of the Tennessee, occupies Paducah, Kentucky.

       [restored 3/25/2022]

Subsequent Events:

10/21/1861                  11/7/1861                  2/6/1862                 2/16/1862

References:

Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 285.

Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 167.

Chronology Of The American Civil War
civilwarhome.com/timeline.htm

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,216,389,414,480

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