Mar 02 Congress authorizes track width of 4'8½" for Union Pacific RR to be called the "Standard gauge "
Mar 03 Congress authorizes a US mint at Carson City NV
Mar 03 Idaho Territory forms
Mar 20 Battle of Pensacola FL: evacuated by Federals
Mar 25 The first Army Medal of Honor awarded
Mar 27 President Davis calls for this to be a day of fasting & prayer
Mar 03 Federal ironclad ships bomb Fort McAllister Georgia
Mar 30 Danish prince Wilhelm Georg of Sleeswÿk-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg chosen as king George of Greece
Mar 04 Battle of Thompson's Station, Tennessee
Mar 21 Naval Engagement at Havana Cuba-USS Henrick Hudson vs BR Wild Pigeon
Mar 03 Abraham Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences
Mar 11 Free city delivery of mail was authorized by the U.S. Postal Service.
Mar 27 The birth of Sir Henry Royce, The motor car designer of Rolls Royce fame
Mar 03 Gold certificates (currency) authorized by Congress
Mar 03 US wartime military conscription bill enacted
Mar 14 RADM Farragut's squadron of 7 ships forces way up Mississippi River to support Union troops at Vicksburg and Baton Rouge
Mar 24 Bushrangers Charles Robardi and Auguste Rivet stand trial at Goulburn, NSW, for murdering mail carrier Daniel Crotty. (
Mar 20 Battle of Pensacola FL evacuated by Federals
Mar 25 Skirmish at Brentwood TN
Mar 03 Free city delivery of mail was authorized by the U.S. Postal Service.
Mar 26 Voters in West Virginia approve gradual emancipation of slaves
Mar 17 Battle of Kelly's Ford, Virginia (211 casualities)
Mar 04 Territory of Idaho established
Aug 17 Federal batteries &ships bombard Fort Sumter, Charleston
Aug 14 First Kanakas arrive in Brisbane for employment on cotton plantation.
