March 13th, 1862
American Civil War: The U.S. federal government forbids 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. event on March 13, 1862. Read about how to open files in Open File Database.
Events around March 13, 1862
| March 14th, 1862 | Birth | Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist (died in 1961) |
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