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| Harper's Ferry bridge during the War |
- In following orders to abandon Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, and avoid being cut off by McClellan and Patterson advancing from the west and north, Colonel Thomas J. Jackson destroys the 800-foot combined highway-railroad bridge there, effectively closing the main line of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad for nearly ten months./1861
- Tennessee native Nathan Bedford Forrest enlists in the Confederate army as a private today in Josiah White’s cavalry company/1861
- Missouri Governor Claiborne F. Jackson completes a full-scale evacuation of the state government from Jefferson City as US forces under Brig. Gen. Nathaniel Lyon advance on the city./1861
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