Chesapeake Bay

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Record Data

Place Unit Type

Region

Containing Unit

United States of America

Events

Date		Type
07/08/1861	In Baltimore, the War Department, to secure local shipping from hijack, seizes two Chesapeake ferries	Battles/Soldiers
04/05/1865 - 04/07/1865	In the Chesapeake Bay, Confederate boarders seize a civilian transport ship and flee to the Virginia shore	Battles/Soldiers
06/28/1861 - 06/29/1861	On Chesapeake Bay, a bold stroke captures a Baltimore ferry and turns it into a Confederate privateer	Battles/Soldiers

People

Documents

Date	Title
07/11/1848	Spencer Fullerton Baird, Report of the Curator of the Musuem, July 11, 1848
04/03/1856	Jacob Bigelow (William Penn) to William Still, April 3, 1856

Images

Eastern Maryland and the Chesapeake Bay, 1857

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