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    USS Sacramento (1863-1867)

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    USS Sacramento, a 2100-ton steam screw sloop built at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, New Hampshire, was commissioned in January 1863. Her initial service was on the blockade off North Carolina. Early in 1864, she was sent to cruise in European waters, where she remained until mid-1865. Sacramento was then overhauled and ordered to duty off Asia. She departed the U.S. in late 1866 and proceeded to her station by way of Africa and India. On 19 June 1867, while off Madras, India, Sacramento ran aground on a shallow offshore bar and was lost.
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    1865: Confederate General Joseph Johnston officially surrenders his army to General William T. Sherman at Durham Station, North Carolina.

    1865: John Wilkes Booth is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.

    1865: Joseph E. Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee to Sherman.

    1937: The ancient Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain is bombed by German planes.

    1952: Armistice negotiations are resumed.

    1971: The U.S. command in Saigon announces that the U.S. force level in Vietnam is 281,400 men, the lowest since July 1966.

    1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000.


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