Template:Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 1

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1861: Robert Edward Lee orders Thomas Jonathan Jackson to Harper's Ferry, Virginia.

1862: U.S. Infantry under Benjamin Butler begin entering the city of New Orleans, Louisiana.

1863: The Battle of Chancellorsville begins in Virginia.

1863: The "Stainless Banner" becomes the Second National flag of the Confederate States of America. Its first public use is to cover the coffin of Thomas Jonathan Jackson.

1863: The Battle of Chalk Bluff is fought in Arkansas.

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