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Belle Boyd is born in Martinsburg, Virginia
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The Dred Scott Case was tried about a man named Dred Scott. He lived in a free state for years and was free. He stated that he should stay a free man. On this day the trail made him a slave again.
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Future President Abraham Lincoln accepts his nomination for the US senate.
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John Brown a abolitionist, was hung for treason. He tried to rebel against slavery by taking a group of men to steal guns from Harpers Ferry and giving the guns to slaves. This resulted in many deaths.
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Abraham Lincoln was elected the first Republican President of the United States.
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South Carolina, the first state to secede from the union, started a revolution to the Southern stated by leaving the US and starting the Confederacy.
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Union soldiers broke into her house causing her to shoot a soldier to protect her mom. This action started her involvment in the Civil War
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The first battle in the Civil War. This battle located in Bull Run, Virginia. Picnicers came out to watch the battle take place. This battle showed the nation that the war was not going to be a short war, but a long bloody war.
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Arrested for spying on Union soldier. She stayed captive in Baltimore for a week.
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Belle Boyd sprints her way to give Stonwall Jackson an impotant message about Union troops.
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Belle Boyd is held captive at the Washington's Old Capitol Prison.
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President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclomation to free the slaves in the southern states. This document didnt free any slaves right away but came into action after the war.
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The battle of Gettysburg was the bloodiest battle in the Civil War. The battle took place in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
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Belle Boyd marries Samuel Hardinge Jr., a union officer
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Robert E. Lee surrendered to U.S. Grant in Appomatics Court House. This ended the long Civil War.
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Belle Boyd published her memoir in London.
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Belle Boyd marries John Swainson Hammomd, an English business man.
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Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.
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Belle Boyd gets married for a third to Nathaniel Rue High Jr., a young actor.
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Belle Boyd dies of a heart in Kilbourne City, Wisconsin
