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Major General Ambrose Burnside's plan to defeat the confederate army at Fredericksburg, VA failed and ended in a bloody defeat for Grant's Union Army. Burnside was relieved of his command a month later.

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This July 1st 1862 was the last 1862 battleof the peninsula campaign?

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Name of the 50 major civil war battles?

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The Sioux uprising of 1862 resulted in an attack on what predominantly German-American town in Minnesota?

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The of 1862 provided free grants of federal land to every state to be used to establish colleges that would promote the study of agriculture and the mechanical arts?

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When the Battle of Vicksburg began?

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Where land grants given to railroad companies by the federal government to encourage railroad construction?

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When did Victor Hugo write le miserables?

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