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

Sep 25 Secretary of US Navy authorizes enlistment of slaves

Sep 03 Confederate forces enter Kentucky, thus ending its neutrality

Jun 01 US & Confederacy simultaneously stop mail interchange

Jun 08 People of Tennessee vote to succeed from Union

Jun 24 Tennessee becomes 11th (&last) state to secede from US

Jun 03 First Civil War land battle-Union defeats Confederacy at Philippi, WV

Jun 08 Tennessee secedes from the Union and joins the Confederacy.

Jun 19 Anaheim Post Office established

Jun 01 The first skirmish in the Civil War, Fairfax Court House, Va

Jun 28 Leipzig Observatory discovers short-period (6.2 yrs) Comet d'Arrest

Jun 19 The birth of Douglas Haig, British field marshal

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

Aug 05 US Army abolishes flogging

Aug 03 First manned balloon from a ship used to observe Confederate artillery position at Hampton Roads, VA

Aug 05 US levies its first Income Tax (3% of incomes over $800)

Aug 16 Pres Lincoln prohibits Union states from trading with Confederacy

Oct 12 Confederate ironclad Manassas attacks Union's Richmond on Mississippi

Oct 24 First transcontinental telegraph sent in the United States.

Oct 24 First transcontinental telegram sent ending the Pony Express

Oct 16 Confedercy starts selling postage stamps

Jul 03 Pony Express arrives in SF with overland letters from NY

Jul 21 The first major battle of Civil War ends (Bull Run), Va-South wins

Jul 05 Engagement at Carthage, Missouri

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