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Fought on April 3, 1865, the Battle of Namozine Church was an inconclusive engagement took place in Amelia County, Virginia during the Appomattox Campaign.

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The Battle of Nashville was a military engagement that took place in Davidson County, Tennessee, near the city of Nashville, on December 15 - 16, 1864 during the Franklin-Nashville Campaign.

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Murdered by fellow Union General Jefferson C. Davis in 1862, William "Bull" Nelson simultaneously served as a major general in the U.S. Volunteer Army and as a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy during the Civil War.

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The Battle of New Hope Church was an engagement between Union forces commanded by Major General William T. Sherman and Confederate forces commanded by General Joseph E. Johnston between May 25 and 26, 1864 during the Atlanta Campaign.

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The Battle of New Market was fought on May 15, 1864, in Shenandoah County, Virginia. It was the opening battle of the Lynchburg Campaign (May to June 1864) and of the larger Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864.

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The Battle of Ninety-Six was the first battle of the American Revolutionary War in the southern colonies. The battle was fought between Patriot and Loyalist forces on Old Savage’s Field and ended in a stalemate after three days of fighting when the commanders of both sides agreed to a truce.

Fought between May 23 - 26, 1864, the Battle of North Anna was an engagement in Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign between the Union Army of the Potomac and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.

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Also known as the Second Bull Run Campaign or Second Manassas Campaign, the Northern Virginia Campaign, pitted the Union Army of Virginia against the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during August and September 1862.

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Enacted by the Confederation Congress on July 13, 1787, the Northwest Ordinance established a plan for governing the Northwest Territory. Modified several times, the document later served as a blueprint for adding new states to the Union as the United States expanded westward.  

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Enacted by the Confederation Congress on July 13, 1787, the Northwest Ordinance established a plan for governing the Northwest Territory. Later modified several times, the document served as a blueprint for adding new states to the Union as the United States expanded westward. Below is an annotated version of the transcript of the document.

On November 24, 1832, the Convention of the People of South Carolina approved the South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification, precipitating a constitutional crisis that nearly triggered a civil war in the United States.

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