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Monday, January 28, 1861

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Army Events:

			Operation:	Charleston Harbor, SC	December 20, 1860 - April 14, 1861
			Operation:	Fort Humboldt, CA	January 16 - May 18, 1861
			Seizure:	Fort Macon, TX	January 28, 1861
			Seizure:	Fort McComb, LA	January 28, 1861
			Seizure:	New Orleans, LA	January 28, 1861

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

Naval Events:

Stephen R. Mallory, later Confederate Secretary of the Navy, hearing that U.S.S. Brooklyn, Captain William S. Walker, was en route to reinforce Fort Pickens, wired John Slidell that, if attempted, "resistance and a bloody conflict seems inevitable."

(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:

Georgia elects Commissioners to other slave-holding States.

Texas People's State Convention meets.

(Source: The Political History of the United States of America During the Great Rebellion 1860-1865. p. 2-47. Edward McPherson.)