US Congress invests in ironclad technology as blockade tightens
- In Washington, the US Congress
authorizes Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles to appoint a three-member board
to plan and construct “iron or steel-clad steamships or steam batteries”
and appropriates $1.5 million dollars for the purpose./1861
- US General Nathaniel Lyon skirmishes with
Missouri State Guard troops at McCulla's Store, Missouri/1861
- In Washington,
Prince Napoleon (Napoleon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte) of France, the nephew
of the former French emperor and traveling in U.S. as private citizen, visits
President Lincoln at noon. The Prince, arriving at the White House with Baron
Mercier, found no one—neither butler nor doorman—at the main entrance to show
him in, and an employee who happened to be passing by, took care of this duty.
The meeting was "not so gay"; the Prince, huffed at his reception,
"took a cruel pleasure in remaining silent." At 7 p.m., President
Lincoln and his wife, Mary, host a state dinner for Prince Napoleon. He is
seated at the right of Mrs. Lincoln and opposite General Winfield Scott, who is
at the President's left. Gen. George B. McClellan is at the right of the Prince. The dinner turns out to be
an unusually sociable and enjoyable affair./1861
- At
Hampton Roads, Virginia, John LaMountain makes the first ascent in a balloon
from Union ship Fanny to observe
Confederate batteries on Sewell’s Point, Virginia—a harbinger of the twentieth
century aircraft carrier./1861
- Off the coast of Charleston, South
Carolina, the USS Wabash, commanded by Captain Mercer,
recaptures the American schooner Mary
Alice, which had been taken by
Confederate ship Dixie, and also captures the blockade running brig Sarah
Starr. /1861
- At Galveston,
Texas, the USS South Carolina under Commander Alden, engages Confederate batteries on the Galveston coast./1861
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