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EVENTS

January events

January 1 - Maj. Gen. “Stonewall” Jackson marches his troops northward with the objective of disrupting traffic on the B&O Railroad and C&O Canal; the Battle Of Hancock is unsuccessful and the Confederate Army withdraws.

April events

April 12 - Andrew's Raiders steal '' The General '' and drive it north toward Chattanooga, Tennessee , with Western And Atlantic Railroad conductor William Fuller chasing it in the Great Locomotive Chase .

May events

May 6 - the bill that would become the Pacific Railroad Act is passed by the United States House Of Representatives .

June events

June 20 - the bill that would become the Pacific Railroad Act is passed by the United States Senate .

July events

July 1 - the Pacific Railroad Act is signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln .

July 1 - the Union Pacific Railroad is incorporated.

July 28 - The first Railway Post Office car in North America was operated over the Hannibal And St. Joseph Railroad ; the mail was transferred to Stagecoach in St. Joseph, Missouri , for the rest of the journey to California .

July 29 - the Washington And Georgetown Railroad Company began Streetcar operations on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.

November events

November 10 - Chicago And North Western Railway reaches Green Bay, Wisconsin .¹

Unknown date events

Cornelius Vanderbilt acquires the New York And Harlem Railroad .

BIRTHS

DEATHS

Unknown date deaths

Frederick W. Lander , Chief Civil Engineer for the Pacific Railroad (b. 1822 ).

Septimus Norris , Steam Locomotive designer often credited as designing the first 4-6-0 (b. 1818 ).

REFERENCES

Cooper, Bruce C., CPRR.org ( 2005 .