Date Span: March 4, 1861 March 4, 1863TabsEvents Date Event 03/04/1861 to 03/28/1861 In Washington, DC, the United States Senate is sitting in Special Session 03/05/1861 The U.S. Senate, sitting in extraordinary session, confirms all of President Lincoln's cabinet choices 01/01/1862 Federal Income Tax takes effect in the United States 01/09/1862 U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee votes to expel Missouri Senators Waldo Johnson and Trusten Polk 01/10/1862 The United States Senate expels Missouri Senators Waldo Johnson and Trusten Polk for treason 01/13/1862 U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee finds the evidence insufficient to expel Indiana Senator Jesse Bright 01/15/1862 U.S. Senate confirms Edwin M. Stanton's nomination as Secretary of War on a vote of 36-2 01/17/1862 The U.S. Senate votes 26-14 to confirm Simon Cameron as the new ambassador to Russia 01/24/1862 The U.S. Senate votes 38-1 to confirm Noah Haynes Swayne of Ohio to the U.S. Supreme Court 02/05/1862 The U.S. Senate votes to expel Indiana Senator Jesse Bright as a Southern sympathizer 02/17/1862 In Washington, the House of Representatives votes 125-7 to establish a Department of Agriculture 02/26/1862 President Lincoln signs the Loan and Treasury Act, creating a national paper currency 03/06/1862 President Lincoln suggests to Congress ways gradually to end slavery in the United States 03/14/1862 Senator Lazarus Powell survives a U.S. Senate vote to expel him for "seducing citizens into rebellion and treason" 03/15/1862 Congress votes to join with Britain and France on a commission to preserve Atlantic fishing stocks 04/02/1862 The United States Senate passes President Lincoln's suggested resolution to help end slavery gradually 04/03/1862 On a party line vote, the U.S. Senate votes to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia 04/11/1862 In Washington D.C., the House passes the bill to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia 04/21/1862 The U.S. Congress completes a bill to establish a new mint in Denver, Colorado 04/22/1862 A congressional committee reports that Senator Benjamin Stark of Oregon is a southern sympathizer 04/30/1862 U.S. House censures former Secretary of War Simon Cameron for his lax fiscal dealings while in office 05/20/1862 President Lincoln signs the Homestead Act 05/22/1862 The U.S. Senate organizes the impeachment trial of U.S. District Judge West H. Humphreys 06/24/1862 The U.S. Senate trial of U.S. District Judge West H. Humphreys of Tennessee ends with his removal 07/17/1862 President Lincoln signs the Second Confiscation Act authorizing freedom for confiscated slaves 07/17/1862 The second session of the 37th Congress ends in Washington, DC 12/01/1862 The third session of the 37th Congress opens in Washington, DC 12/02/1862 to 12/21/1862 The third session of the 37th Congress is sitting in Washington, DC between December 1 and December 22, 1862 12/18/1862 Senatorial caucus meets to discuss Cabinet crisis 12/22/1862 The third session of the 37th Congress adjourns for a two-week holiday recess 12/23/1862 to 01/05/1863 The third session of the 37th Congress is in a two-week holiday recess until January 6, 1863 01/06/1863 The third session of the 37th Congress returns from a two-week holiday recess 01/07/1863 to 03/02/1863 The third session of the 37th Congress is sitting in Washington DC until early March 1863 03/03/1863 The 37th Congress comes to the end of its term in Washington DC 04/06/1865 In Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, recently retired Congressman James Tracy Hale dies of typhoid 06/13/1866 Moses Odell, influential New York Democrat and friend of Abraham Lincoln, dies of cancer in Brooklyn. People Adams, Charles Francis Allen, William Joshua Alley, John Bassett Ancona, Sydenham Elnathan Anthony, Henry Bowen Arnold, Isaac Newton Ashley, James Mitchell Babbitt, Elijah Bailey, Joseph Baker, Stephen Baker, Edward Dickinson Baxter, Portus Bayard, James Asheton, Jr. Beaman, Fernando Cortez Bennet, Hiram Pitt Biddle, Charles John Bingham, Kinsley Scott Bingham, John Armor Blair, Francis Preston, Jr. Blair, Jacob Beeson Bragg, Thomas Breckinridge, John Cabell Bright, Jesse David Brown, William Gay, Sr. Browne, George Huntington Browning, Orville Hickman Buffington, James Burnett, Henry Cornelius Calvert, Charles Benedict Cameron, Simon Pages1 2 3 4 5 6 7 next › last » PlacesUnited States Capitol, Washington DC Documents Images Trinity Episcopal Church, 3rd and Indiana Avenue, Washington D.C., circa 1860-1861, U.S. Capitol in background, zoomable image View of U.S. Capitol under construction, Washington D.C., circa 1860-1861 Bibliography
Trinity Episcopal Church, 3rd and Indiana Avenue, Washington D.C., circa 1860-1861, U.S. Capitol in background, zoomable image