1861 Q2 TimelineApril05 - Federals abandon Ft Quitman, Tx.
08 - Elisha G Otis, US elevator builder (Otis), dies at 50.
08 - US mint at Dahlonega, Georgia seized by confederacy.
09 - Charles Holroyd, painter/etcher, is born.
12 - Fort Sumter, SC is shelled by Confederacy, starting Civil War.
13 - After 34 hours of bombardment, Ft Sumter surrenders to Confederates.
14 - Sumter lowers U.S. flag and surrenders - Southern troops fire salute to US flag
14 - Formal Union surrender of Ft Sumter.
14 - Robert E Lee resigns from Union army.
15 - President Lincoln calls for 75,000 militia
15 - Federal army (75,000 volunteers) mobilized by Pres Lincoln.
16 - Isaac Murphy, US jockey (won 628 races), is born.
16 - US president Lincoln outlaws business with confederate states.
17 - President Davis initiates Privateering against Union shipping
17 - Proclamation of the kingdom of Italy.
17 - Virginia Secedes
17 - Virginia is 8th state to secede.
17 - Indianola TX-"Star of West" taken by Confederacy.
18 - Union abandons Harpers Ferry Arsenal, W. Virginia
18 - Col Robert E Lee turns down offer to command Union armies.
18 - Battle of Harpers Ferry, VA.
18 - Heinrich August Neithardt, composer, dies at 67.
19 - Lincoln authorizes blockade of Confederate seacoast
19 - BALTIMORE, MA Secessionist mob attacks Union troops
19 - Baltimore riots-4 soldiers, 9 civilians killed.
19 - Lincoln orders blockade of Confederate ports (Civil War).
19 - Warden Oncle, [Edward Vermeulen], Flemish farmer/writer, is born.
20 - Virginia Navy yard at Norfolk is evacuated by Union
20 - Battle of Norfolk, VA.
20 - Colonel Robert E Lee resigns from Union army.
20 - Robert E Lee resigns from Union army.
22 - Robert E Lee named commander of Virginia Confederate forces.
23 - Battle of San Antonio, TX.
23 - Edmund Henry Hynman, 1st viscount Allenby of Megiddo/Fieldmarshal, is born.
23 - Arkansas troops seize Ft Smith.
25 - 7th NY arrives to reinforce Washington, DC.
25 - Battle of Lavaca, TX.
27 - President Abe Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus.
27 - West Virginia secedes from Virginia after Virginia secedes from US.
27 - Georgy L'vovich Catoire, composer, is born.
27 - Johan M Skjoldborg, Danish writer (Dynaes-Digte), is born.
29 - Maryland says no to secession
29 - Maryland's House of Delegates votes against seceding from Union.
30 - President Lincoln ordered Federal Troops to evacuate Indian Territory.
May01 - Lee orders Confederate troops under T J Jackson to Harper's Ferry.
03 - Anaconda Plan formulated by Union Gen. Winfield Scott
03 - Gen Winfield Scott presents his Anaconda Plan.
03 - Lincoln asks for 42,000 Army Volunteers & another 18,000 seamen.
03 - Anthony Philip Heinrich, composer, dies at 80.
04 - At Gretna LA, one of 1st guns of Rebel navy is cast.
05 - Alexandria, VA - CS troops abandon city.
06 - Virginia secedes despite objections of its western counties
06 - Arkansas secedes
06 - Confederate Congress declares war on United States
06 - Arkansas & Tennessee becomes 9th & 10th state to secede from US.
06 - Radindranath Tagore, Hindu poet/mystic/composer (Nobel 1913), is born.
06 - Jefferson Davis approves a bill declaring War between US & Confederacy.
07 - Riot occurs between prosecessionist & Union supporters in Knoxville TN.
08 - Richmond Va, is named the capital of the Confederacy.
08 - L sel˘ Teleki, Hungarian earl/revolutionary, commits suicide.
10 - Union troops march on state militia in St Louis, MI.
12 - Ivan Caryll, (US?) composer (Pink Lady), is born.
12 - Christian Heinrich Hohmann, composer, dies at 50.
13 - Queen Victoria announces England's position of neutrality.
16 - Confederate govt offers war volunteers premium.
16 - Kentucky proclaims its neutrality.
18 - Friedrich Hebbels "Kriemhildes Rache," premieres in Weimar.
18 - Battle of Sewall's Point VA-1st Federal offense against South.
20 - North Carolina secedes
20 - Kentucky declares neutrality
20 - Kentucky proclaims its neutrality in Civil War.
20 - US marshals appropriate previous year's telegraph dispatches, to reveal prosecessionist evidence.
20 - Cornerstone of University of Washington laid in Seattle.
20 - North Carolina becomes 11th & last state to secede from Union.
21 - Richmond declared Confederate capital
21 - Richmond, Va is designated Confederate Capital.
21 - NC is 10th state to secede from Union.
23 - Virginia citizens vote 3 to 1 in favor of secession.
23 - 3 fleeing slaves enter Fort Monroe Virginia.
24 - Alexandria, VA occupied by Federal troops.
24 - James T Jackson, US landlord (doodde EE Ellsworth), shot dead).
24 - Elmer Ellsworth, US warrior (Chicago Zouaves), shot to death at 23.
24 - Maj Gen Benjamin Butler declares slaves "contraband of war".
25 - John Merryman is arrested under suspension of writ of habeas corpus it later sparks a supreme court decision protecting writ.
26 - Postmaster General Blair announces end of postal connection with South.
26 - Union blockades New Orleans LA & Mobile AL.
27 - Victoria E Matthews, educator, is born.
29 - Dorothea Dix offers help in setting up hospitals for Union Army.
31 - Gen Beauregard is given command of Confederate Alexandria Line.
31 - Emily Perkins Bissell, welfare worker (1st christmas seal drive, 1907), is born.
31 - Mint at New Orleans closes.
June01 - Skirmish at Arlington Mills, VA.
01 - British territorial waters & ports off-limits during Civil War.
01 - John Q Marr, US Union captain, dies in battle at Fairfax Courthouse.
01 - US & Confederacy simultaneously stop mail interchange.
01 - 1st skirmish in Civil War, Fairfax Court House, Va.
03 - Virginia Battle of Phillippi.
03 - Stephen A Douglas, "Little Giant", senator (Lincoln Debates), dies.
03 - 1st Civil War land battle-Union defeats Confederacy at Philippi, WV.
05 - John Garland, US Union colonel/brig-general, dies in battle.
05 - Tomas Genoves y Lapetra, composer, dies at 55.
05 - Federal marshals seize arms & gunpower at Du Pont works DE.
06 - Giuseppe Concone, Italian singing teacher, dies at 59.
06 - Lincoln's cabinet declares Union govt will pay for expenses once states have mobilized volunteers.
08 - Tennessee secedes
08 - People of Tennessee vote to succeed from Union.
08 - US Sanitary Commission is given executive approval.
09 - Floris H Verster, [van Wulverhorst], painter/cartoonist/etcher, is born.
10 - Virginia Confederates win minor battle at Big Bethel
10 - Josephus T J Cuypers, Dutch architect (St Bavo, Haarlem), is born.
10 - Battle of Big Bethel VA (Bethel Church, Great Bethal)-Union retreats.
10 - Pierre M M Duhem, French naturalist/philosopher/historian, is born.
11 - West Virginia secedes from Virginia to become a new Union state
11 - W. Virginia McClellan makes name at Rich Mountains.
11 - Sigismund Vladislavovich Zaremba, composer, is born.
12 - Missouri Governor Claiborne Jackson calls for 50,000 volunteers to stop Federates from taking over his state.
14 - Harpers Ferry evacuated by rebels in face of McClellan's advance.
15 - Johnston evacuates Harpers Ferry.
16 - Battle of Vienna, VA & Secessionville, SC (James Island).
16 - Scato Gocko de Vries, Dutch paleographer/librarian, is born.
17 - Battle of Boonville, MI-Brig General Lyon defeats Confederate forces.
17 - Sidney James Jones, composer, is born.
18 - Jos FdT Coelho, Portuguese writer (Os Meus Amores), is born.
19 - Francis Pierpont is elected provisional governor of West Virginia.
19 - Douglas Haig, British fieldmarshal (Sudan, WW I), is born.
19 - Anaheim Post Office established.
19 - Jos Protasio Rizal, Philippine optician/author/nationalist, is born.
20 - Arthur Battelle Whiting, composer, is born.
24 - Tennessee becomes 11th (& last) state to secede from US.
24 - Battle of Mathias Point, VA-US attacks Confederate batteries.
24 - Abdl-Medjid, 31st sultan of Turkey (1839-61), dies at 38.
25 - Western Virginia campaign.
28 - Leipzig Observatory discovers short-period (6.2 yrs) Comet d'Arrest.
29 - William James Mayo, surgeon/co-founder Mayo clinic in Minnesota, is born.
29 - Elizabeth Barrett-Browning, writer, dies at 55.
30 - CSS Sumter slips past USS Brooklyn blockade.
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