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November 14

1862 - Washington D.C. - Lincoln approves Ambrose Burnside's plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia by an audacious crossing of the Rappahannock River, leading to the Battle of Fredericksburg

November 15

1862 - Washington D.C. - Lincoln, Seward, and Secretary of the Treasury Samuel Chase attend a demonstration of rocketry at the Navy Yard; the party escapes injury when the rocket unexpectedly explodes

1864 - Atlanta - After burning Atlanta, Georgia, William T. Sherman's two armies moved southeast toward Savannah, beginning the March to the Sea

November 16

1863 - Campbell's Station - Army of Tennessee divisions under James Longstreet raced to meet Ambrose Burnside's Army of the Ohio before it could move into its works in Knoxville, Tennessee; Burnside's Army of the Ohio was damaged, but avoided the defeat Longstreet had planned

November 17

1863 - Knoxville - Longstreet's two divisions begin siege operations against the Army of the Ohio at Knoxville

November 19

1861 - Round Mountain - Confederates under Douglas Cooper tracked down a band of Unionist Creeks and Seminoles under Opothleyahola, but retreating Unionists set a grass fire to provide a screen for escape to what is now Tulsa County, Oklahoma

1863 - Gettysburg - After listening to principal orator Edward Everett for over two hours, an Adams County, Pennsylvania crowd assembled to dedicate a new battlefield cemetery heard Abraham Lincoln's 292-word dedication speech, now known as the Gettysburg Address

November 20

1863 - Gettysburg - In a letter to Lincoln, Everett praised the President for his eloquent and concise speech, saying, "I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes."