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Monday, August 22, 2011

Confederate Army of New Mexico on march

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USS Lexington

Brig. Gen. Henry H. Sibley and 3,700 men named the "Confederate Army of New Mexico" depart San Antonio, Texas, for New Mexico Territory. /1861
US Naval Commander J. Rodgers reports that 600 Confederate troops at Commerce, Missouri, have withdrawn at the approach of Union gunboats, preventing the Confederates from erecting batteries there which would have effectively impeded navigation./1861
The USS Lexington under Commander Stembel seizes the steamer W.B. Terry at Paducah, Kentucky, for trading with Confederates. Meanwhile, Confederate sympathizes seize the steamer Samuel Orr at Paducah, Kentucky, and take her up the Tennessee River. /1861

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Apaches attack West Texas Confederates

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Fort Davis, West Texas

Confederate States Army troops at Fort Davis in West Texas, are attacked by Mescalero Apaches. The native warriors raid the garrison's livestock herd, killing two guards and making off with about 100 horses and or cattle./1861
Off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, the Confederate privateer, CSS York captures the schooner George G. Baker. Then the USS Union under Commander J.R. Goldsborough recaptures the George G. Baker. Then the York’s crew sets the ship afire to prevent her capture by the Union./1861

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

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

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Fort Stanton, New Mexico, falls to Texans

Fort Stanton, New Mexico Territory

In a sweeping new grab of Federal power, the US Congress passes a bill establishing a national income tax and new tariffs to finance the war effort. The income tax is 3% and applies to those with incomes over $800 per year. These new taxes are projected to raise $500 million for the Union government, but because of its disfavor, the income tax is never actually put into effect./1861
In Missouri, US General Nathaniel Lyon clashes in a skirmish with pro-secessionists under General Ben McCulloch at Dug Springs. Anticipating further unrest in Missouri, US General John Fremont, stationed at St. Louis, sends General Lyon reinforcements./1861
In the US Territory of New Mexico, Federal troops evacuate Fort Stanton in the face of Lieutenant Colonel John Baylor’s West Texans of the 2^nd Texas Mounted Rifles./1861

Sunday, July 24, 2011

2nd Texas arrives at Mesilla; Wise evacuates Tyler Mountain

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Stonewall Jackson

In West Virginia, Union General Jacob Cox attacks Confederate forces under former Virginia Governor, General Henry Wise, at Tyler Mountain. Wise evacuates the area around Charleston, West Virginia and pulls back to Gauley Bridge. /1861
Discussing his new-found fame from the disciplined fighting of his command at Manassas three days ago, Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson says to Captain John D. Imboden, “Captain, my religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me. Captain, that is the way all men should live, and then all would be equally brave.”/1861
A battalion of the 2nd Texas Mounted Rifles under Lieutenant Colonel John R. Baylor arrives tonight in Mesilla, capital of Confederate Arizona, but within the US Territory of New Mexico, and he prepares to launch a surprise attack the next morning. However, a Confederate deserter informs the fort's commander, US Major Isaac Lynde, of the plans./1861
In Richmond, R.M.T. Hunter replaces Robert Toombs as Confederate Secretary of State. /1861
Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond receives the contract to produce iron plate for the Merrimack conversion project./1861
In Washington, an Act "to provide for the temporary increase of the Navy" passed by US Congress, gives President Lincoln the authority to take vessels into the Navy and appoint officers for them, to any extent deemed necessary. The Congress is merely confirming the actions that President has been taking since April./1861

Saturday, July 23, 2011

More US military changes; West Texans head for New Mexico

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Lt. Col. John R. Baylor

More military changes are announced in Washington. US Major General John Dix is ordered to take command of the new Department of Maryland, and Brigadier General William S. Rosecrans (or as the Southerners refer to him, Rosencrantz, the name of one of Shakespeare’s fools) is ordered to take command of the Department of the Ohio commanding in Western Virginia. President Lincoln signs legislation authorizing the enlistment of one million soldiers for three-year terms./1861
In West Texas, a battalion of the 2nd Texas Mounted Rifles under Lieutenant Colonel John R. Baylor leaves tonight under orders from the Department of Texas commander, Colonel Earl Van Dorn, to occupy the series of forts along the west Texas frontier which had been abandoned by the Union Army. Baylor's orders allow him to advance into New Mexico in order to attack the Union forts along the Rio Grande if he believes the situation calls for it. Convinced that the Union force at Fort Fillmore would soon attack, Baylor decides to take the initiative and launch an attack of his own./1861

Friday, July 8, 2011

Sibley to lead New Mexico "buffalo hunt"

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H.H. Sibley

For several months, men known to be Southern sympathizers were invited to a “buffalo hunt” in West Texas, code language for an irregular military gathering to force the Union out of New Mexico. Eager to remove all vestiges of Federal presence from the New Mexico Territory, the Confederate War Department places Gen. Henry Hopkins Sibley in command of these irregular West Texas forces to do just that./1861
Federal troops attack an encampment of Missouri State Guard troops at Florida, Missouri, scattering them./1861

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Jackson moves on B&O; Butler to Fortress Monroe

Col. T.J. Jackson in 1857

Colonel Thomas J. Jackson, commanding Virginia Militia Forces at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, has realized that large quantities of coal are being shipped over the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad from the Ohio Valley to Union naval bases in Baltimore, Maryland, to fuel U.S. Navy steam warships for the blockade of the Southern States. Tonight, Jackson dispatches the 5th Virginia Infantry under Kenton Harper to Cherry Run, west of Martinsburg, western Virginia, and he simultaneously orders Captain John D. Imboden's cavalry to the Potomac at Point of Rocks, Maryland, east of Harpers Ferry, Virginia. The 5th Virginia takes up a position at the Potomac River bridge near Cherry Run, 32 miles east of Harpers Ferry north and west of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Martinsburg Shops. Imboden's cavalry set up at the signal tower west of Point of Rocks, Maryland 12 miles east of Harpers Ferry./1861

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B.F. Butler

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Fortress Monroe from air

US Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler is assigned to the command of Fortress Monroe, Virginia. He would become known as one of the most notorious of Federal officers of the War, and he will soon be embroiled in a legal and ethical controversy (and a public relations nightmare for the Lincoln Administration) over runaway slaves showing up at Fortress Monroe./1861
Texas Militia under Santos Benavides defeat Mexican bandit leader Juan Cortina, at the Battle of Carrizo, Texas, near present day Zapata, Texas./1861

Monday, May 9, 2011

Covert Confederate munitions arrive at St. Louis

St. Louis, Missouri in 1859

At St. Louis, Missouri, Missouri Volunteer Militia officers meet a shipment of crates on board the steamer J.C. Swon at the St. Louis riverfront marked Tamoroa marble, and transport them to Camp Jackson, six miles inland. In mid-April, Governor Claiborne Jackson had sent two militia officers, Colton Green and Basil Duke, to President Jefferson Davis in Montgomery, Alabama, requesting artillery and mortars for an attack on the St. Louis Arsenal. The crates of Tamoroa marble shipped to the Missouri Volunteer Militia are in fact two 12 pound Howitzers, two 32 pound siege guns, five hundred muskets, and ammunition from assets seized from the Federal arsenal at Baton Rouge./1861
At Newport, Rhode Island, the USS Constitution and the steamer Baltic (which had been the main ship in the Fox Expedition to Fort Sumter), prepare to set up the U.S. Naval Academy which has been moved from Annapolis, Maryland, because of uncertainties there./1861
While many on both sides have expected a short war and have called for volunteers for mere months, President Jefferson Davis today wisely and quietly signs a measure setting all future enlistments “for the duration of the war” rather than a set period of time. In other work today in Montgomery, Alabama, Davis dispatches James D. Bullock to Great Britain to purchase arms and vessels from the British for the Confederate cause./1861

The Federal blockade of Virginia precipitates and exchange of gunfire between the Federal vessel Yankee and Confederate batteries on shore at Gloucester Point, Virginia./1861
Texas State Militia captures United States troops at San Lucas Spring, Texas./1861

Monday, May 2, 2011

11th New York Fire Zouaves arrive in Washington

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Col. Ellsworth

Northern state militias from various states continue to be raised and sent to the defense of the capital. The 11^th New York Fire Zouaves arrive today at Washington. Their distinctive dress of baggy red pants and short blue jackets mimics the Muslim Turks. Their commander, 24 year old Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth, would be one of the first officers killed in the War on May 24./1861
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Gen. Earl Van Dorn

The Texas Quartermaster and Commissary General P. N. Luckett writes to the new Confederate military commander in Texas Earl Van Dorn, on instructions from Texas Governor Clark, that he will deduct from the funds recently obtained as part of the surrender of U.S. property in Texas a sufficient amount to equip the regiment of state troops commanded by Col. John S. Ford. Also asks that the regiment be accepted into Confederate service./1861

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Jackson removes arms from Harpers Ferry

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Harper's Ferry, Virginia

In Montgomery, Alabama, Congressman Walter Brooke of Mississippi introduces a bill in Confederate Congress to move the capital city to Richmond, Virginia./1861
President Lincoln writes Gustavus V. Fox, to encourage him as he was deeply disappointed he could not resupply Fort Sumter in time to keep Major Anderson in the fort. Lincoln’s encouragement shows from his own hand his shrewd plan to force war on the South, “You and I both anticipated that the cause of the country would be advanced by making the attempt . . . even if it should fail."/1861
Soldiers of the 6^th Massachusetts Regiment who were killed in the Baltimore riots on April 19 are honored at ceremonies in Boston./1861
Governor Letcher of Virginia calls for volunteers for the Confederate army while in Nebraska Territory, a call for volunteers to support the Union goes out./1861
In one of his first orders as commander of the State Militia, Major General Robert E. Lee orders Major Thomas J. Jackson to the arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, to remove all weapons and equipment for gun and cannon manufacturing as well as any other munitions and move them South to keep them from the danger of being stolen by Federal forces from the north or Unionist sympathizers from Virginia./1861

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Missouri Gov. Jackson

Missouri Governor Claiborne Fox Jackson, part of the Unionist Douglas faction of the Democratic party, but privately a secessionist, calls out the Missouri Volunteer Militia for maneuvers about 4.5 miles northwest of the St. Louis Federal Arsenal at a place called Lindell's Grove. The militia, under command of General David M. Frost, names their training ground Camp Jackson after their governor. Governor Jackson wants them to prepare to assault and take the Federal Arsenal, the largest depository of munitions west of the Appalachian Mountains./1861
Federal forces seize two Confederate ships in the waters of the Atlantic, and the U.S. Navy blockades the mouth of the James River./1861
Union army officer James R. Greene, assisting in the evacuation of US troops from Texas, reports to fellow officer C. C. Sibley that, while carrying out his responsibility, he had heard a rumor that his command was to be made prisoners of war. Not believing it, he still checked it out and found it to be true./1861

Monday, April 25, 2011

Illinois militia steal from St. Louis arsenal

Much to President Lincoln’s relief, New York's 7th Regiment arrives in Washington, having gone around Baltimore by boat. Lincoln considers the monstrous anti-Constitutional act of sending US troops to prevent the Maryland Legislature from meeting and potentially arming the people of that state against the United States, but he concludes it would not be justifiable./1861
Governor John Letcher proclaims Virginia a part of the Southern Confederacy./1861
U.S. Arsenal, St. Louis, Missouri

Missouri is on the verge of secession, and St. Louis has one of the largest federal arsenals west of the Appalachian mountains. No wonder President Davis has been urging Missiouri governor Claiborne Jackson to seize it. Others also had their eye on that St. Louis arsenal. In a daring nighttime theft to damage Missouri secessionists, Illinois militiamen led by Captain James H. Stokes of Chicago, secretly steam on the Mississippi River from Alton, Illinois, to St. Louis, Missouri, and by theft remove 10,000 muskets from the Federal Arsenal with the help of federal troops there. In his return to Alton, Illinois, the next morning, he supplies munitions to the Illinois state militia./1861
Brig. Gen. Edwin Vose Sumner is appointed commander of the Department of California, replacing Col. Albert Sidney Johnston, who resigns to become a full General commanding Confederate Department No. 2, which encompasses most of the western Confederacy./1861
Battle of Indianola, Texas. Major C. C. (Caleb Chase) Sibley surrenders 420 United States Infantry troops to Confederate forces capture at Saluria, Texas./1861

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Lee to command Virginia militia

Maj Gen RE Lee, Virginia Militia

Nominated by Governor Letcher of Virginia and approved by the Assembly yesterday, Robert E. Lee assumes command of Virginia's militia and naval force, commissioned major general of Virginia forces--the highest rank of the Virginia Militia. Meanwhile, the Virginia secession convention ratifies a temporary union with the Confederacy and ratifies the Confederate Constitution, subject to approval by a May 23rd public referendum of the Virginia Ordinance of Secession./1861
Arkansas State Militia, sent by Governor Henry M. Rector, arrives in Fort Smith, Arkansas, to seize the U.S. army post there, but find that U.S. troops have already abandoned it./1861
President Jefferson Davis urges Missouri Governor Claiborne Jackson to seize the Federal arsenal at St. Louis, one of the largest west of the Appalachian Mountains, then join the Confederacy./1861
George McClellan is appointed Major General of the Ohio militia./1861
At San Antonio, Texas, Confederate forces under Colonel Earl Van Dorn arrest the officers of the 8^th United States Infantry as prisoners of war while Confederates commanded by James Duff capture a company of 8th US Infantry formerly commanded by US Colonel Robert E. Lee near San Antonio./1861

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Upper South in turmoil

Professor Thomas J. Jackson, VMI

Pro-secessionist riots continue in Baltimore, Maryland as President Lincoln meets at the White House with Baltimore Mayor Brown and General Winfield Scott to find ways to stop the violence./1861
Colonel Thomas J. Jackson, professor at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia, attends chapel with the cadets this Sunday morning, then summons stagecoaches in the afternoon to the train station where he will lead nearly the entire school to travel to Richmond to enlist to defend Virginia, the Confederacy, and their homes./1861
In Wheeling, western Virginia, Monongahela County hosts Pro-Union delegates from the northwestern countries of Virginia in the Virginia Union Convention to pass resolutions against secession and elect a provisional government that in 1863 will become the new state of West Virginia. Senator Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, is mobbed and treated rudely by a large crowd at Lynchburg, Virginia, as he passed through on his way from Washington to Tennessee. The Richmond Dispatch reported, “A large crowd assembled and groaned him, and offered every indignity he deserved, including pulling his nose.” The conductor and others intervene, and Johnson is eventually able to continue on his way.”/1861

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J.C. Breckenridge

Kentucky Senator John C. Breckinridge (and former US Vice President and future Confederate general and Confederate Secretary of War) rightly denounces Lincoln’s proclamation calling for troops as illegal and unconstitutional unless Congress approves a declaration of hostilities./1861

Louisiana Governor Moore asks the citizens of his state for 5,000 more infantry volunteers./1861
Colonel Earl Van Dorn assumes command of Confederate forces in Texas./1861
The Lincoln Administration, in a move to secure Washington, assumes government control of the Philadelphia and Baltimore Railroad. Manufacturers of Sharp’s rifles and Colt revolvers announce they will halt sales to the Southern states./1861
North Carolina militia seizes the United States mint at Charlotte, N. C./1861

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Virginia secedes

28th Virginia flag

Less than two weeks ago Virginia voted down secession. But now everything has changed with Lincoln inaugurating war on the South and his call for troop quotas of militias from each state in the Union to supply a total of 75,000 volunteers to subdue the insurrection he has declared. Virginia Governor John Letcher rejects Lincoln’s requisition of troops to quell rebellion, and the Virginia Secession Convention meeting at Richmond approves on a first vote of 88-55 the wording of an ordinance of secession to be approved by statewide referendum on May 23. A second vote to ratify the Provisional Confederate Constitution was 103-46 in favor of joining the Confederacy, becoming the eighth state to secede and join the Southern Confederacy. For all intents and purposes, most view Virginia as a seceded state though several formalities must be completed. “AN ORDINANCE to repeal the ratification of the Constitution of the United States of America by the State of Virginia, and to resume all the rights and powers granted under said Constitution.

The people of Virginia in their ratification of the Constitution of the United States of America, adopted by them in convention on the twenty-fifth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, having declared that the powers granted under said Constitution were derived from the people of the United States and might be resumed whensoever the same should be perverted to their injury and oppression, and the Federal Government having perverted said powers not only to the injury of the people of Virginia, but to the oppression of the Southern slave-holding States:

Now, therefore, we, the people of Virginia, do declare and ordain, That the ordinance adopted by the people of this State in convention on the twenty-fifth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and all acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying and adopting amendments to said Constitution, are hereby repealed and abrogated; that the union between the State of Virginia and the other States under the Constitution aforesaid is hereby dissolved, and that the State of Virginia is in the full possession and exercise of all the rights of sovereignty which belong and appertain to a free and independent State.

And they do further declare, That said Constitution of the United States of America is no longer binding on any of the citizens of this State.

This ordinance shall take effect and be an act of this day, when ratified by a majority of the voters of the people of this State cast at a poll to be taken thereon on the fourth Thursday in May next, in pursuance of a schedule hereafter to be enacted.

Adopted by the convention of Virginia April 17,1861./1861

By 2 o'clock in the morning of April 17, US Colonel Harvey Brown begins a second reinforcement of Fort Pickens at Pensacola Bay, Florida. Throughout the day, troops, supplies, and horses transfer from ships to the fort. The powerful war steamer Powhatan also arrives in the early morning despite being delayed by "heavy gales, head winds, and defective boilers." US Lieutenant David Dixon Porter decides to "run the gantlet" into Pensacola Harbor disguised as an English steamer and flying British colors. Colonel Brown, recognizing the Powhatan, sends Meigs to stop Porter from barreling into the Harbor inviting attack from Confederate guns, and interfering with the fort’s reinforcement, putting the Union command in danger of an unwanted battle. Porter recklessly ignores signals obviously intended for him, forcing Meigs to put a ship directly in Porter's path to block his entry into Pensacola Harbor. Meigs forces the Powhatan to drop anchor near the Atlantic. A few days later, Porter sends a letter to Washington protesting that Meigs had prevented him from carrying out his orders. He addresses the letter, not to Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, but to Secretary of State William Seward, requesting him to give the information to President Lincoln. In spite of Porter’s loose cannon antics, Fort Pickens will have a garrison of around 1100 soldiers and laborers and six months’ provisions after all the ships of the expedition arrive./1861

In Baltimore, Maryland, secessionists convene a meeting to push for Maryland to secede from the Union. Lincoln is terrified of the prospect of District of Columbia being surrounded by seceded states./1861
Militia aboard the Confederate Army steamer General Rusk off the coast of Texas take the Star of the West, famous for being fired on in a relief expedition sent by President Buchanan./1861
In Montgomery, Alabama, anticipating a Union naval blockade and without a viable Navy, Confederate President Jefferson Davis responds to Lincoln’s call for 75,000 troops by issuing a proclamation calling for all owners of sea-going vessels to volunteer them for use in defending the Confederate States against "aggression" from the United States. He also announces that the Confederate government will accept applications for letters of marquee and reprisal, which are authorizations to fit out an armed ship and use it to attack, capture, and plunder enemy merchant ships in time of war, a policy known as privateering./1861
In response to Lincoln’s call for militia, Pennsylvania sends five companies. Known as the “First Defenders” the men depart from Philadelphia to Washington, which requires them to pass through Baltimore where pro-secession flags fly on several buildings on Federal Hill in Baltimore. The men, unarmed, untrained and unprepared, received dirty looks, scowls and a few rude remarks./1861

Friday, April 15, 2011

Lincoln: 75,000 to quell 'insurrection'

Lincoln

At Washington, President Lincoln, having achieved his wishes of the South firing defensively on Northern troops, today issues a public proclamation commanding all persons in arms against the Government to disperse within twenty days and calling for 75,000 state militia volunteers for three months to quell the insurrection in South Carolina. By comparison, in December 1860, there were barely 16,000 men in the Army, most positioned in the Western region of the United States. Instantly the Northern states respond with support. The New York legislature commits $3 million for the Union cause. Not so in the Border States and Upper South of Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, North Carolina, and Virginia. Lincoln’s appeal becomes a public relations nightmare for the Administration in the Upper South. They respond with discontent, offense, and outrage when their governors receive a requisition for their state’s quota of volunteers. North Carolina and Kentucky refuse to respond to Lincoln’s appeal while up until today, Maryland has opposed Secession and was hoping for a peaceful reunion. Lincoln's call for troops to coerce the South forces them toward Secessionism./1861

NC Gov Ellis

Governor of North Carolina, John W. Ellis, refuses to furnish his state’s quota of militia to the United States, saying, “I can be no party to this wicked violation of the laws of the country and to this war upon the liberties of a free people. You can get no troops from North Carolina.” North Carolina state militia accordingly seizes the unoccupied Fort Macon, N. C./1861

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Gov. Isham Harris

Rejecting Lincoln's call for troops to subdue the ‘insurrection’ in the South, Tennessee Governor Isham Harris orders a second session of the state legislature to reconsider the question of calling a secession convention./1861
Meanwhile in Charleston, South Carolina, the Confederate steamer with Major Anderson and his garrison on board cross the Charleston Bar and are transferred to the U.S.S. Baltic of Lincoln's Reinforcement Fleet headed by Navy agent Gustavus V. Fox. Then the Baltic, with the Fort Sumter garrison and the 200 reinforcements for Fort Sumter, embarks for New York. Private Daniel Hough, Battery E, First United States Artillery, is buried with all the honors of war by order of General Beauregard, C. S. A. He was killed on the 14^th by the premature explosion of a cannon while saluting the Union flag on Fort Sumter at the evacuation./1861
Confederate Brigadier General Braxton Bragg places US Lt. John Worden under arrest in Pensacola, Florida, making him the first prisoner-of-war in the War for Southern Independence./1861
In Montgomery, Alabama, Confederate Secretary of War Leroy P. Walker writes to Texas Governor Edward Clark, thanking him for his role in the seizure of a wagon train in Texas that had been attempting to take supplies to U.S. troops in New Mexico./1861
Confederate diplomat Ambrose Dudley Mann is the first to arrive in London today, hoping to encourage the British Government to support and recognize the Confederacy./1861

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