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Wednesday, March 6, 1861

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Army Events:

			Operation:	Charleston Harbor, SC	December 20, 1860 - April 14, 1861
			Surrender:	Fort Brown, TX	March 6, 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:

The Confederate cabinet is completed: State-Robert Toombs; War-Leroy P. Walker; Navy-Stephen R. Mallory; Treasury-Christopher G. memminger; Attorney General-Judah P. Benjamin; Postmaster General-John H. Reagan. The Confederacy calls for 100,000 volunteers.

Missouri Convention calls for a Convention of the Southern States which have not seceded, to meet at Nashville, Tennessee, April 15th., providing for such amendments to the Constitution of the United States as shall secure to all the States equal rights in the Union, declaring strongly against secession.

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

March 4, 1861 .)