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On April 15, 1861, the day after the small U.S. Army garrison surrendered Fort Sumter in the harbor Charleston, South Carolina to Confederate forces, President Abraham Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to reclaim federal property and to suppress the rebellion begun by the seven Deep South slave states which had formed the Confederate States of America.
April 23 – John Peltz, baseball player (died 1906) April 27 – William Lorimer, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1909 to 1912 (died 1934) May 16 – Herman Webster Mudgett, alias H. H. Holmes, serial killer (died 1896) May 20 – Henry Gantt, project engineer (died 1919) May 25 – Julia Boynton Green, poet (died 1947)
April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865 [a] [b] ... dying the next day. By the end of the war, much of the South's infrastructure was destroyed. ... 199,790 died of disease ...
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.
A. Natale Abbadia; Abbasqoli Khan Mo'tamed od-Dowleh Javanshir; Abdülmecid I; James Abercrombie (congressman) Robert Scarlett, 2nd Baron Abinger; Shimun XVII Abraham
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 ...
1861 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1861st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 861st year of the 2nd millennium, the 61st year of the 19th century, and the 2nd year of the 1860s decade. As of the start of 1861, the ...
The battle took place from May 29, 1861 to June 1, 1861 during the early days of the American Civil War. The Confederates set up several shore batteries to block Union military and commercial vessels from moving in the Chesapeake Bay and along the lower Potomac River as well as for defensive purposes. The battery at Aquia also was intended to ...