- 02 Aug 2019 13:06
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August 2, Friday
The Federal Congress passes the first national income tax measure, calling for 3 percent on incomes of over $800. The bill also provides for new and stiffer tariffs.
Northern forces abandon Fort Stanton, New Mexico Territory, in the face of the Confederate invasion of the Southwest.
At Dug Springs, Missouri, not far from Springfield, a skirmish shows the Federals that opposition forces of Missourians and Confederates are in the area.
In southwestern Missouri there is a Federal reconnaissance from Ironton to Centreville.
While General Nathaniel Lyon is expecting serious trouble in southwestern Missouri, the department commander, General Fremont, is steaming down the Mississippi from St. Louis with eight boats and reinforcements, which are enthusiastically welcomed at Cairo, Illinois.
At Fort Monroe, Virginia, General Butler bans the sale of intoxicating liquors, but soldiers find ways of evading the order. Whiskey is found in the gun barrels of pickets and in hair oil bottles.
The Federal Congress passes the first national income tax measure, calling for 3 percent on incomes of over $800. The bill also provides for new and stiffer tariffs.
Northern forces abandon Fort Stanton, New Mexico Territory, in the face of the Confederate invasion of the Southwest.
At Dug Springs, Missouri, not far from Springfield, a skirmish shows the Federals that opposition forces of Missourians and Confederates are in the area.
In southwestern Missouri there is a Federal reconnaissance from Ironton to Centreville.
While General Nathaniel Lyon is expecting serious trouble in southwestern Missouri, the department commander, General Fremont, is steaming down the Mississippi from St. Louis with eight boats and reinforcements, which are enthusiastically welcomed at Cairo, Illinois.
At Fort Monroe, Virginia, General Butler bans the sale of intoxicating liquors, but soldiers find ways of evading the order. Whiskey is found in the gun barrels of pickets and in hair oil bottles.
Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.
—Edmund Burke
—Edmund Burke