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- Confederate troops under Virginia Militia Colonel Thomas J. Jackson seize nearly 100 miles of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from Point of Rocks, Maryland, where the line crosses the Potomac into western Virginia to its re-crossing of the Potomac at Cumberland, Maryland./1861
- The USS Union begins the blockade of Savannah, Georgia./1861
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- US Brig. Gen. Robert Anderson assumes command of the Department of Kentucky while Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowell assumes command of the Department of Northeastern Virginia./1861
- In the United Kingdom, the House of Commons takes up debate on recognition of the Confederate States of America./1861
- Brig. Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard receives instructions to report to President Jefferson Davis at Richmond, Virginia, the new capital of the Confederacy./1861
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