Monday, January 31, 2011

Federal property siezed in New Orleans

  • The Atlanta City Council appoints five delegates to attend the convention of seceding states in Montgomery, Alabama, on February 4. They were instructed to encourage the convention to select Atlanta as the capital of the Confederacy./1861
  • In New Orleans, Louisiana, the state seizes the United States Branch Mint and Customs House and the schooner U.S.S. Washington./1861

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