- In Washington, DC, US Senator Jefferson Davis (D-Mississippi), a member of the appointed Senate Committee of Thirteen, in an effort at fair-minded bi-partisanship and unaware that President-elect Abraham Lincoln was opposed to any efforts at compromise, proposes an unwise resolution that no report should be adopted that did not have the support of a majority of the Republican members and a majority of the other members/1860
- [SC SECESSION CONVENTION] At the Convention in Charleston, several proposals are adopted--one providing that People resigning from the United States Military would receive the same rank in the Commonwealth of South Carolina/1860
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