Following the American Civil War Sesquicentennial with day by day writings of the time, currently 1863.

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A Diary of American Events.

April 19, 2014

The Rebellion Record—A Diary of American Events; by Frank Moore

April 19.—A party of eighty mounted rebels attempted an invasion of Kentucky through Pound Gap, but were driven back by a detachment of the Forty-fifth Kentucky mounted infantry. A band of one hundred and fifty guerrillas was also driven out of the State into Macon County, Tenn., eight of them being killed and ten captured, with fifty of their horses.—The English schooner Fanny was captured off Velasco, Texas, by the National gunboat Owasco.

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