Portal:American Civil War/This week in American Civil War history/11

March 7
1862 - Elkhorn Tavern - Though outnumbered, Samuel Curtis's Army of the Southwest defeated the Confederate Army of the West under Earl Van Dorn at Pea Ridge in Benton County, Arkansas

1865 - Battle of Wyse Fork - Jacob D. Cox's XXIII Corps encountered Braxton Bragg's entrenched forces along Southwest Creek east of Kinston, North Carolina

March 8
1862 - Hampton Roads - The ironclad CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) rammed and sank the USS Cumberland and burned USS Congress before retiring to Norfolk, Virginia shipyards

March 9
1862 - Hampton Roads - Returning to finish the Union Navy fleet, CSS Virginia met USS Monitor in the first "battle of the ironclads"

March 10
1864 - Vicksburg - The Red River Campaign began as Union troops under Andrew J. Smith embarked for Alexandria, Louisiana with a gunboat fleet under David Porter

1865 - Wyse Fork - Sustained attacks by Confederate infantry Daniel H. Hill and Robert Hoke were unable to dislodge Jacob Cox's reinforced provisional corps in Lenoir County, North Carolina

March 11
1861 - Montgomery - The Constitution of the Confederate States of America was adopted.

March 13
1862 - Washington, D.C. - The U.S. federal government forbade all Union army officers from returning fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation.

1863 - Deep Gully - D.H. Hill's native North Carolina division have initial success in Craven County, North Carolina against Hiram Anderson's division of the Union XVIII Corps

1865 - Richmond - The Confederate States of America reluctantly agreed to the use of African American troops.