Apr 17 Asteroid 67, Asia discovered

Apr 09 US mint at Dahlonega, Georgia seized by confederacy

Apr 26 G Schiaparelli discovers asteroid #69 Hesperia

Apr 27 West Virginia secedes from Virginia after Virginia secedes from US

Apr 15 Federal army mobilized by Pres Lincoln

Apr 19 President Lincoln orders blockade of Southern ports from SC to Texas

Apr 29 R Luther discovers asteroid #68 Leto

Apr 29 Asteroid 68-Leto & Asteroid 69-Hesperia discovered

Apr 27 President Lincoln extended blockade of Confederacy to VA and NC ports

Apr 19 Baltimore riots-4 soldiers, 9 civilians killed

Apr 17 Virginia become 8th state to secede

Apr 05 Federals abandon Fort Quitman TX

Apr 18 Col Robert E Lee turns down offer to command Union armies

Apr 13 Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces

Apr 20 Robert E Lee resigns from Union army

Apr 13 After 34 hours of bombardment, Ft Sumter surrenders to Confederates

Apr 29 Maryland's House of Delegates vote against seceding from Union

Nov 08 US removes Confederate officials from British steamer Trent

Nov 09 Battle of Piketon, KY

Nov 01 Gen George B McClellan made general in chief of Union armies

Nov 06 Jefferson Davis elected to 6 year term as Confederate President

Nov 26 At Wheeling, a convention adopts a constitution for new state West Virginia

Nov 28 Confederate congress officially admits Missouri to the CSA

Nov 04 University of Washington founded in Seattle

Dec 21 Congress authorizes the Medal of Honor, the Nation's highest award, for Naval personnel.

Dec 19 Battle of Black Water

Dec 22 Sara Jeannette Duncan, journalist, novelist, was born at Brantford, Ontario, she joined the Toronto Globe in 1886-87, as its first female full time journalist

Dec 14 Prince Albert, husband of England's Queen Victoria, dies in London.

Dec 08 William Durant auto manufacturer cofounder of Chevrolet, founder of General Motors, Durant Motors; was born

May 20 Kentucky proclaims its neutrality in Civil War

May 01 Lee orders Confederate troops under T J Jackson to Harper's Ferry

May 07 Riot occurs between prosecessionist & Union supporters in Knoxville TN

May 18 Battle of Sewall's Point VA-1st Federal offense against South

May 20 North Carolina becomes 11th & last state to secede from Union

May 29 Dorothea Dix offers help in setting up hospitals for Union Army

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