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<noinclude>{{On this day/doc}}</noinclude>'''[[{{#titleparts:{{PAGENAME}}|1|2}}January 12]]''':
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*[[1861]] – '''[[Civil War]]''': [[Union]] forces under Commodore [[James Armstrong]] surrendered the [[Navy Yard]], including [[Fort Barrancas]] and [[Fort McRee]], to Major [[William H. Chase]] and his Confederate troops. Navy Yard quartermaster [[William Conway]] refused to strike the Union colors. [[William Franklin Lee]] joined the Confederacy.
*[[1891]] – '''[[Charles Perry Mason]]''' was born.
