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Friday, January 11, 1861

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Army Events:

Operation:

Charleston Harbor, SC

December 20, 1860 - April 14, 1861

(Source: Compendium of the War of the Rebellion Vol. I, p. 660-991. Frederick H. Dyer.)

Naval Events:

U.S. Marine Hospital two miles below New Orleans was occupied by Louisiana State troops.

(Source: Civil War Naval Chronology 1861-1865. pp. I:1-41; II:1-117; III:1-170; IV:1-152; V:1-134. 1971: Naval History Division, Navy Department.)

Additional Information:

Alabama passes Ordinance of Secession in secret session: yeas 61, neas 39. Proposition to submit ordinance to the people lost: yeas 47, neas 53. Alabama secedes from the Union.

Secretary of the Treasury Philip F. Thomas, from Maryland, resigns, completing the Southern withdrawl from President Buchanan's cabinet.

The Mississippi River is blockaded at Vicksburg, Mississippi by a Confederate artillery battery.

Forts Jackson and Saint Phillip, Louisiana, at the mouth of the Mississippi River, and Fort Pike, on Lake Ponchartrain, and the U. S. Arsenal at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, are seized by Louisiana State troops. The Arsenal contained 50,000 small arms, 4 howitzers, 20 heavy pieces of ordinance, 2 batteries, and 300 barrels of gun powder.

U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Philip F. Thomas resigns, because of differences with the President and a majority of the Cabinet, "in the measures which have been adopted in reference to the recent condition of things in South Carolina," especially "touching the authority, under existing laws, to enforce the collection of the customs at the port of Charleston."

(Source: The Political History of the United States of America During the Great Rebellion 1860-1865. p. 2-47. Edward McPherson; A Concise Encyclopedia of the Civil War, p. 203-221. Henry E. Simmons 1965.)