March
- 3/3/1863 -Enrollment Act passed, drafting men between 20 and 45 with exemptions by hiring a substitute or by payment of $300.00 | 1865 - Congress creates Freedmans Bureau
- 3/4/1826 - Gen. John Buford, US, born | 1856 - Stephen Douglas introduces a Bill allowing Kansas as a state only afetr another Constitutional Convention there | 1861 -Lincoln inaugurated 16th President | 1865 - Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural
- 3/6/1831 - Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, US, born | 1857 - The Dred Scott Decision
- 3/7/1862 - Battle of Pea Ridge
- 3/8/1862 - Battle of Pea Ridge | CSS Virginia (Merrimack) enters Hampton Roads, destroying U.S. warships
- 3/9/1862 - Indecisive Battle of USS Monitor and CSS Virginia at Hampton Roads
- 3/12/1864 - Red River Campaign begins | SAME DATE - U.S. Grant promoted to command ALL U.S. forces
- 3/13/1865 - Confederate Congress authorizes the use of slaves as combat soldiers
- 3/14/1862 - Confederates abandon New Madrid, Missouri
- 3/16/1828 - Gen. Patrick Cleburne, CS, born | 1861 - The Territory of Arizona secedes
- 3/17/1865 - Campaign to capture Mobile begins
- 3/19/1865 - Battle of Bentonville, North Carolina
- 3/22/1817 - Braxton Bragg, CS, born
- 3/23/1862 - Stonewall Jackson defeated at Kernstown, Virginia, in the first battle of the Shenandoah Valley.
- 3/28/1818 - Gen. Wade Hampton, CS, born | 1862 - Taylor marches to reinforce Jackson
- 3/29/1865 - Appomattox Campaign begins
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