Template:Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 15

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1858: Abraham Lincoln makes his "House Divided" speech before the Illinois Republican Convention to kick off his senatorial run against Stephen Douglas.

1864: The Battle of Petersburg begins in Virginia. U.S. Generals William F. Smith and Winfield Scott Hancock, with a combined army of nearly 30,000 men, are held off by General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard with about 4,000 men.

1864: U.S. General Willian Tecumseh Sherman, learning of the defeat at Brice's Crossroads, Tennessee writes to U.S. Secretary of War Edwin Stanton about C.S. General Nathan Bedford Forrest, "Forrest is the very devil, ...There never will be peace in Tennessee till Forrest is dead."