Daily Report

Birthdays

Alfred Holt Colquitt

1824—1894

Turns 37 on this date

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John Smith Preston

1809—1881

Turns 52 on this date

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James Henry Loomis

1842—1920

Turns 19 on this date

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William Armstrong

1836—1902

Turns 25 on this date

1827—1896

Turns 34 on this date

Events

Lawmaking/Litigating	The Virginia Convention on secession is meeting in Richmond	02/13/1861—05/01/1861
Crime/Disasters	In Pennsylvania, the world's first oil field fire kills nineteen people and burns for three days	04/17/1861—04/20/1861
Battles/Soldiers	Marylanders in sympathy with the South burn railroad bridges linking Philadelphia with Washington DC	04/19/1861—04/20/1861
Campaigns/Elections	Remarkable gathering of 100,000 New Yorkers in Union Square in support of suppressing the rebellion	04/20/1861
Carlisle/Dickinson	First company of volunteers from Carlisle, Pennsylvania leaves for training, equipment, and service	04/20/1861
Carlisle/Dickinson	In Carlisle, Pennsylvania, a public meeting condemns the South and strongly supports the war	04/20/1861
Education/Culture	At Dickinson College, the Junior and Senior classes request the end of term be brought forward	04/20/1861

Documents


Executive record	Pennsylvania Governor Andrew Curtin's Proclamation, April 20, 1861	04/20/1861
Letter	George W. Brown to John A. Andrew, April 20, 1861	04/20/1861
Newspaper	New York Times, “The Position of Maryland,” April 20, 1861	04/20/1861
Newspaper	Savannah (GA) News, “Mails to the South to be Cut Off,” April 20, 1861	04/20/1861