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1. On which day in August did President Lincoln, reacting to recent draft riots in New York City, as well as minor protests in Ohio and Vermont, authorize the military to use force whenever necessary to uphold the Conscription Act?
2. On which day did a Confederate bomb on a Union train explode at General Grant's headquarters in Virgina?
3. On which day did Confederate General Kirby-Smith set up headquarters in newly captured Lexington and move his troops into the Kentucky capitol of Frankfort?
4. On which day did Union General Quincy Gilmore order this date inscribed on medals showing Fort Sumter in ruins?
5. On which day did balloonist Thadeus C. Lowe become the United States' first military airman when he was named to the position of military aeronaut?
6. On which day was General Philip Sheridan given command of the Union Army of Shenandoah with orders to do whatever is necessary to stop Jubal Early?
7. On which day did a party of Sioux Indians try to seize Fort Ridgely, Minnesota?
8. On which day did Admiral Dahlgren order the Union fleet to bomb Fort Sumter?
9. On which day did General Robert E. Lee offer Confederate President Jefferson Davis his resignation after the Confederate failure at Gettysburg?
10. On which day was John D. Barry appointed brigadier general in the Confederate Army?
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