Tuesday, March 5, 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

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


Additional Information:

President Lincoln announces his cabinet: State-William H. Seward; Treasury-Salmon P. Chase; Navy-Gideon Welles; War-Simon Cameron; Interior-Caleb B. Smith; Attorney General-Edward Bates; Postmaster General-Montgomery Blair.

Missouri Convention resolves that the protest of St. Louis against coercion be reduced to writing, and a copy be sent to the President of the United States. Resolutions were also adopted informing Georgia Commissioner Luther J. Glenn that Missouri dissented from the position taken by the State of Georgia, and that Missouri refused to join Georgia in secession from the Union.

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

March 4, 1861 .)



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