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February 7

1865 - Hatcher's Run - Gouverneur K. Warren's V Corps launched an attack against Gordon's corps, regaining ground lost to counterattack the day before

February 8

1820 - Lancaster, Ohio - Near the banks of the Hocking River, future Union Army commander Tecumseh Sherman was born to Mary Hoyt and Charles Robert Sherman

1862 - Roanoke Island - Successfully landing 7,500 troops, Union commander Ambrose Burnside coordinated land and sea bombardments with land assault to overwhelm defenders of Fort Huger under Henry A. Wise

1865 - Delaware - State voters rejected the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and voted to continue the practice of slavery (Delaware finally ratified the amendment on February 12, 1901)

February 9

1861 - Montgomery, Alabama - During a constitutional convention for the new Confederate States, Jefferson Davis was named provisional president of the Confederacy

February 10

1862 - Elizabeth City - After success at Roanoke Island, fourteen Union Navy vessels under Captain Stephen Rowan destroyed the Confederate mosquito fleet, silenced a four-gun battery, and helped to clear the waterway to Norfolk, Virginia

February 11

1861 - Washington, D.C. - United States House of Representatives unanimously passes a resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state.

February 12

1809 - LaRue County, Kentucky - In a log cabin on the Sinking Spring Farm Nancy Hanks, the wife of uneducated farmer Thomas Lincoln, gave birth to the Lincolns' second child, a boy they chose to name Abraham

1865 - Washington, D.C. - Electoral college met and officially elected Abraham Lincoln to a second term as President of the United States

February 13

1862 - Wheeling, West Virginia - A constitutional convention held in Independence Hall decided to forbid both free and enslaved blacks from permanent residence in the nascent state of West Virginia