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April 15 – Isaiah Stillman, U.S. Army Major in the Black Hawk War (born 1793) May 21 – Benjamin Paul Akers, sculptor (born 1825) May 24 – Elmer E. Ellsworth, first Union officer to die in the Civil War (born 1837) June 3 – Stephen A. Douglas, Senator from Illinois from 1847 till 1861 and presidential candidate (born 1813)
April 20 – American Civil War: Robert E. Lee resigns his commission in the United States Army, in order to command the forces of the state of Virginia. April 24 (N.S.) – Bezdna unrest : Bezdna in Russia is the scene of a peasant uprising; the military open fire and about 90 are killed.
December 30, 1860 – March 28, 1861: Brevet Lieutenant General Winfield Scott, general-in-chief of the U.S. Army, asks permission from President Buchanan to reinforce and resupply Fort Sumter but receives no reply. [275] On March 3, 1861, Scott will tell Secretary of State–designate William Seward that Fort Sumter can not be relieved. [278]
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.
March 4, 1861 – Lincoln becomes the 16th president and Hamlin becomes the 15th vice president; 1861 – American Civil War begins at Fort Sumter; 1861 – First Battle of Bull Run (First Battle of Manassas) 1861 – Davis unanimously elected to full term as Confederate president, Stephen unanimously elected to full term as Confederate vice ...
The Territory of Dakota is organized, March 2, 1861; Abraham Lincoln becomes the 16th president of the United States on March 4, 1861; A rump government declares itself the Confederate Territory of Arizona on March 16, 1861; American Civil War, April 12, 1861 – May 13, 1865 Battle of Fort Sumter, April 12, 1861 – April 13, 1861
Battles of the American Civil War were fought between April 12, 1861, and May 12–13, 1865 in 19 states, mostly Confederate (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia [A]), the District of Columbia, and six territories (Arizona ...
March 4, 1825 – Adams becomes the sixth president; Calhoun becomes the seventh vice president; 1825 – Erie Canal is finally completed 1826 – Former presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams die on the same day, which happens to be on the fiftieth anniversary of the approval of the Declaration of independence.