Page 11: Historical Events In 1861

Sep 14   Fortunato Santini, composer, dies at 83.   

Sep 17   1st day school for freedmen forms at Fortress Monroe Virginia.   

Sep 17   Owen Seaman, poet/editor (Punch).   

Sep 20   Battle of Lexington, MI-captured by Union   

Sep 22   Fort Fauntleroy (Wingate), rapes Navaho Indians   

Sep 23   Edmond H H Allenby, English fieldmarshal/high director (Egypt).   

Sep 25   Secretary of US Navy authorizes enlistment of slaves.   

Sep 26   2nd British Golf Open: Tom Morris Sr shoots a 163 at Prestwick Club   

Sep 28   Pedro De Cordoba, NYC, actor (Club Havana, Swamp Fire, Saboteur).   

Oct 02   Former VP John C Breckinridge flees Kentucky   

Oct 04   Frederic Remington, US, artist/sculptor of American West.   

Oct 06   Elias Canneman, liberal minister of Finance (1813-14), dies at 84   

Oct 06   Naval Engagement at Charleston, SC USS Flag vs BR Alert   

Oct 08   Theodore Roberts, SF CA, actor (Roaring Road, 10 Commandments).   

Oct 10   Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian Arctic explorer/humanitarian (Nobel 1922)   

Oct 11   Battle of Dumfries, VA (Quantico Creek).   

Oct 12   Confederate ironclad Manassas attack Union's Richmond on Mississippi.   

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

Oct 14   Bjarni Thorsteinsson, composer   

Oct 16   In this year, Confederacy starts selling postage stamps.   

Oct 16   In this year, Confedercy starts selling postage stamps   

Oct 21   Battle of Balls Bluff, VA (Leesburg, Harrison's Island).   

Oct 21   Edward Dickinson Baker, US attorney/senator, dies in battle at 50   

Oct 22   1st telegraph line linking West and East coasts completed.   

Oct 24   1st US transcontinental telegram is sent (from SF to Wash DC)   

Oct 24   inaugural transcontinental telegram sent ending the Pony Express.   

Oct 24   inaugural transcontinental telegraph sent in the United States.   

Oct 25   Battle of Wilson's Creek, MI (Springfield)   

Oct 25   Friedrich C von Savigny, German lawyer, dies at 82   

Oct 26   Pony Express ends.   

Oct 26   Richard D Sears, Boston, tennis champ, US Open (1881).   

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

Nov 02   American Civil War: Western Department Union General John C. Fremont is relieved of command and replaced by David Hunter   

Nov 03   Johann Peter Kirsch, Luxembourg church historian/archaeologist.   

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Jan 02   Helen herron taft: 1st lady (1909-12)   

Jan 03   William renshaw: British champion tennis player    

Jan 06   Heinrich gottlieb noren: Composer   

Jan 06   George exton lloyd: Anglican bishop and theologian   

Jan 13   Max nonne: German neurologist   

Jan 14   Wilhelm von polenz: German writer (der pfarrer von breitendorf)   

Jan 18   Hans goldschmidt: German chemist   

Jan 18   Raymond huntington woodman: Composer   

Jan 02   Frederik willem iv: King prussia (1840-61)/germ (1849-61),   

Jan 17   Lola montez: Irish-born adventurer (b. 1821)   

Jan 31   Franciscus j van vree: Dutch catholic foreman,   

Feb 10   Francis danby: Exmouth, painter,   

Feb 12   Hippolyte-andre-baptiste chelard: Composer,   

Feb 18   Louis c luzac: Dutch minister of internal affairs,    

Mar 10   Josepf francois snel: Composer,   

Mar 14   Abraham louis niedermeyer: Composer,