Referendum proposal fails

Senator John J. Crittenden (D-KY)

• Senator John J. Crittenden (D-KY), in a final dramatic effort to avert war and resurrect his compromise, proposes to the US Senate a national referendum of the American people to vote on provisions of the Crittenden Compromise. Senate Republicans shoot down this last hope/1861

• The US War Department reverses orders by sacked Secretary of War Floyd to disarm all forts from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, south/1861

• Georgia State Troops seize Fort Pulaski on the Savannah River/1861

•  [SECESSION CONVENTION] The Convention authorizes the President of the Convention, D.F. Jameson to fill any vacancies among the commissioners working for a Southern Confederacy in several States/1861