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The transcontinental telegraph was completed on Oct. 24, 1861, making possible instant communication between the coasts possible for the first time. It rendered the Pony Express obsolete.
1861 – American Civil War: Alabama secedes from the United States. [14] 1863 – American Civil War: The three-day Battle of Arkansas Post concludes as General John McClernand and Admiral David Dixon Porter capture Fort Hindman and secure control over the Arkansas River for the Union. [15] [16]
During April 15, 1861, the day after the U.S. Army surrendered Fort Sumter to the Confederates, President Abraham Lincoln called upon the States remaining in the Union to provide volunteers to suppress the insurrection in the seven States [2] which had seceded from the Union by that date. [3]
Edward Galloway (September 1840 – April 19, 1861) was the first soldier in the American Civil War to be mortally wounded, and the war's second death, after Private Daniel Hough. He was injured when a gun went off prematurely on April 14, 1861, during a 100-gun salute to the flag after the Battle of Fort Sumter. The explosion killed Hough ...
February 26 – Godfrey Lowell Cabot, industrialist and philanthropist (died 1962) March 1 – Henry Harland, novelist and editor (died 1905) March 15 – Joseph M. Devine, 6th Governor of North Dakota from 1898 to 1899 (died 1938) March 20 – Wilds P. Richardson, U.S. Army officer (died 1929)
Alan Guebert shares parts of an essay, written by historian Ted Widmer, that examines Abraham Lincoln's 1861 Fourth of July, his first as president. Fighting had not started, but Lincoln won the ...
On September 14, 1861, ten days after his 5,400-man force left their base, Zollicoffer occupied the Cumberland Gap and took a position at the Cumberland Ford (near present-day Pineville, Kentucky) to counter Unionist activity in the area, where Union supporters had been organizing and training recruits from Kentucky and east Tennessee at Camp ...
On July 16, 1861, the untried Union Army of Northeastern Virginia under Brigadier General (Brig. Gen.) Irvin McDowell, 35,000 strong, marched out of the Washington, D.C., defenses to give battle to the Confederate Army of the Potomac, which was concentrated around the vital railroad junction at Manassas.