Birthdays
William Orlando Butler
Turns 70 on this date
Isaac Brown Parker
Turns 20 on this date
James Sidney Rollins
Turns 49 on this date
Charles Scott Venable
Turns 34 on this date
Events
| Battles/Soldiers | Baltimore rioters mount a deadly attack on the Sixth Massachusetts in the streets of the city | 04/19/1861 |
| Crime/Disasters | In Pennsylvania, the world's first oil field fire kills nineteen people and burns for three days |
04/17/1861 to 04/20/1861 |
| Battles/Soldiers | Marylanders in sympathy with the South burn railroad bridges linking Philadelphia with Washington DC |
04/19/1861 to 04/20/1861 |
| Battles/Soldiers | Private Edward Galloway, USA, injured at Fort Sumter, dies in hospital in Charleston, South Carolina | 04/19/1861 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating | The Virginia Convention on secession is meeting in Richmond |
02/13/1861 to 05/01/1861 |
| Battles/Soldiers | Union garrison at Harpers Ferry burns the Arsenal and withdraws in an overnight march to Pennsylvania |
04/18/1861 to 04/19/1861 |
Documents
| Executive record | Abraham Lincoln, Proclamation of a Blockade of the South, April 19, 1861 | 04/19/1861 |
| Newspaper | Boston (MA) Liberator, “An Ancient and A Modern Compromise,” April 19, 1861 | 04/19/1861 |
| Newspaper | Charleston (SC) Mercury, “Henry Ward Beecher on War,” April 19, 1861 | 04/19/1861 |
| Newspaper | Newark (OH) Advocate, “Speech of Hon. Alex H. Stephens,” April 19, 1861 | 04/19/1861 |