Events in History
Commander of the Army Ulysses S. Grant
Mar 9 Ulysses S. Grant is named Commanding General of the U.S. (Union) Army
- Mar 10 Red River campaign begun in Louisiana by Union forces
- Mar 11 Dale Dike on Humber River crumbles killing at least 240, in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England
- Mar 11 The Great Sheffield Flood: the largest man-made disaster ever to befall England kills over 250 people in Sheffield
- Mar 14 Union troops occupy Fort de Russy, Louisiana
- Mar 15 Red River Campaign-Union forces reach Alexandria, Louisiana
- Mar 21 Battle at Henderson's Hill (Bayou Rapids) Louisiana
- Mar 23 Encounter at Camden, Arkansas
- Mar 25 Battle of Paducah, Kentucky (Forrest's raid)
- Mar 29 Great Britain gives the Ionian Islands back to Greece
- Mar 29 Union General Steeles troops reach Arkadelphia, Arkansas
- Mar 30 Skirmish at Mount Elba, Arkansas
Birthdays in History
- Mar 4 David W. Taylor, U.S. Navy architect (1st towing tank), born in Louisa County, Virginia (d. 1940)
- Mar 12 W. H. R. Rivers, British psychiatrist (d. 1922)
- Mar 13 Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter, born in Torzhok, Russia (d. 1941)
- Mar 14 Casey [John] Jones, American railroad engineer who dies trying to save a train (Ballad of Casey Jones), born in Missouri (d. 1900)
- Mar 18 Mikael Lybeck, Finnish-Swedish language poet (Samlade Arbeten), born in Nykarleby, Finland (d. 1925)
- Mar 19 Charles Marion Russell, American artist (d. 1926)
- Mar 30 Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist and economist (The State) born in Berlin, Prussia (d. 1943)
Deaths in History
- Mar 3 Ulric Dahlgren, Union colonel, dies in battle at 21
- Mar 4 Thomas Starr King, American Unitarian clergyman and lecturer who advocated for California to remain in the Union (Christianity & Humanity), dies of an illness at 39
- Mar 10 Maximilian II of Bavaria, King of Bavaria (1848-64), dies at 52
- Mar 16 Robert Smith Surtees, British novelist (Jorrocks’s Jaunts and Jollities), dies at 58
- Mar 17 Alexandre Calamo, Swiss painter, etcher and lithographer, dies at 53
- Mar 21 Luke Howard, British manufacturing chemist and meteorologist (nomenclature system for clouds), dies at 91
- Mar 27 Jean-Jacques Ampère, French scholar (b. 1800)
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