1863 in the United States

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1863 in the United States

Events from the year 1863 in the United States.

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1863 in the United States

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Galusha A. Grow (R-Pennsylvania) (until March 4)
Schuyler Colfax (R-Indiana) (starting December 7)
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January 1: Emancipation Proclamation

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July 13: Union victory at Gettysburg
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July 4: Union victory at Vicksburg

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"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure."

From President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863

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