July 29, 1863---John "Bull"

JULY 29, 1863:           

Fading Confederate hopes for international recognition are dashed when Queen Victoria announces that there is “no reason to depart from the strict neutrality which Her Majesty has observed from the beginning [of the war],” even though official British neutrality had, if anything, been strictly pro-Confederate to this point. 

July 28, 1863---The Battle of Stony Lake

JULY 28, 1863:           

The Battle of Stony Lake, Dakota Territory (now North Dakota). A large force of Sioux warriors attempt to probe Union lines, and are repulsed with light fighting. The Sioux continue their retreat across the Dakota Territory, with U.S. forces in pursuit.

July 27, 1863---The Death of William Lowndes Yancey

JULY 27, 1863:           

Confederate fire-eater William Lowndes Yancey, who had been considered for the Provisional Presidency of the Confederacy in 1861, dies in Montgomery, Alabama. A radical secessionist and States’ Rights advocate, Yancey, as Senator from Alabama, spent most of the war vehemently opposing the wartime “arrogation of power” by the central government of the Confederacy.