Birthdays
James Buffington
Turns 44 on this date
James Hunter Bull
Turns 44 on this date
Patrick Ronayne Cleburne
Turns 33 on this date
Benjamin Heck Crever
Turns 44 on this date
Charles Brown Lore
Turns 30 on this date
George Archibald McCall
Turns 59 on this date
George Maxwell Robeson
Turns 32 on this date
Henry Washington Sawyer
Turns 32 on this date
Alexander Jacob Schem
Turns 35 on this date
Events
| Lawmaking/Litigating | In Washington, DC, the United States Senate is sitting in Special Session |
03/04/1861 to 03/28/1861 |
| Crime/Disasters | Irish fishermen rescue fifteen survivors from wrecked American sailing ship | 03/16/1861 |
| Crime/Disasters | Survivors of a shipwreck on the barren Florida coast endure several days of hardships before rescue | 03/16/1861 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating | The Congress of the Confederate States ends its first session in Montgomery, Alabama | 03/16/1861 |
| US/the World | The Duchess of Kent, mother of the reigning Queen Victoria, dies at her home near Windsor | 03/16/1861 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating | The Virginia Convention on secession is meeting in Richmond |
02/13/1861 to 05/01/1861 |
Documents
| Newspaper | Cleveland (OH) Herald, “The Impending Downfall of Secession,” March 16, 1861 | 03/16/1861 |