Template:Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 8

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1824: C.S. Brigadier General William Montgomery Gardner is born in Augusta, Georgia.

1861: Tennessee secedes from the United States of America.

1861: Virginia turns its State militia over to the Confederate States of America.

1862: The Battle of Cross Keys begins in Virginia.

1864: The Republican National Convention nominates Abraham Lincoln to run for President and Andrew Johnson to run for Vice-President of the United States.