| Battles/Soldiers |
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In Washington, DC, the District of Columbia militia called out and sworn in for three months |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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Beauregard again demands that Major Anderson surrender Fort Sumter immediately |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Pennsylvania votes $500,000 for the expansion of its militia |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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Confederate artillery bombard Fort Sumter |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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Off Pensacola, Florida, under cover of night, small boats reinforce the federal garrison at Fort Pickens |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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Major Anderson accepts a ceasefire and prepares to evacuate Fort Sumter |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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The United States becomes the second nation state to recognize the new united Kingdom of Italy |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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Major Anderson and his men evacuate Fort Sumter and sail for New York |
| Crime/Disasters |
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In Ireland, a deadly Dublin tenement fire kills eight children and three others |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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Governor Alexander Ramsey makes Minnesota the first state to pledge its militia to the Union |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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Stephen Douglas meets with Lincoln at the White House and pledges his support |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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In Philadelphia, angry crowds threaten the offices of the city's southern-based newspaper |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Secretary of War Cameron outlines his quotas of volunteers to state governors |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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President Lincoln calls for 75,000 troops to suppress the Rebellion and enforce United States law |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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The governor of North Carolina sends an immediate refusal to provide troops for the Union |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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President Abraham Lincoln calls a special early session of the new 37th Congress |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Atlantic packet returning from France sinks off Nova Scotia and nine seamen drown |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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In Philadelphia, Mayor Alexander proclaims both against treason and popular disorder in the city |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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Reading, Pennsylvania militia artillery unit called to service arrives in Harrisburg |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Governor Magoffin of Kentucky refuses troops for "the wicked purpose" of subduing the South |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Confederate president invites applications for "letters of Marque and Reprisal" |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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At the House of Delegates in Richmond, the Virginia Convention votes for secession |
| Crime/Disasters |
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In Pennsylvania, the world's first oil field fire kills nineteen people and burns for three days |
| Crime/Disasters |
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New York Harbor Police break up illegal boxing match on Staten Island |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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The Sixth Massachusetts Regiment arrives in Philadelphia on its way to Washington DC, via Baltimore |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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Major Anderson and his command arrive in New York Harbor |
| Carlisle/Dickinson |
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In Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the Democratic newspaper denounces "Old Abe's War" |
| Crime/Disasters |
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In Georgia, fire burns a well-known Macon hotel |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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Union garrison at Harpers Ferry burns the Arsenal and withdraws in an overnight march to Pennsylvania |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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Marylanders in sympathy with the South burn railroad bridges linking Philadelphia with Washington DC |
