Montgomery Blair to Abraham Lincoln, May 16, 1861 (Page 1)

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Montgomery Blair to Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, May 16, 1861 (Military policy)
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Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress
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Abraham Lincoln to Ephraim and Phoebe Ellsworth, May 25, 1861 (Page 2)

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Abraham Lincoln to Ephraim and Phoebe Ellsworth, Saturday, May 25, 1861 (Death of Elmer E. Ellsworth)
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Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress
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Abraham Lincoln to Ephraim and Phoebe Ellsworth, May 25, 1861 (Page 1)

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Abraham Lincoln to Ephraim and Phoebe Ellsworth, Saturday, May 25, 1861 (Death of Elmer E. Ellsworth)
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Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress
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Three new federal army departments are formed

The early organization of the federal forces to counter the rebellion continued with the formation of three new military departments, Washington, Pennsylvania, and Annapolis.  Washington was placed under the command of Colonel J.K. F. Mansfield, U.S. Army, Pennsylvania under the veteran major general Robert Patterson, and Annapolis under the newly-minted Major-General Benjamin Butler.  The Department of the Ohio was formed two weeks later, under Major General George McClellan.  (By John Osborne)
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John Henninger Reagan (American National Bibliography)

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Ben Procter, "Reagan, John Henninger," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/04/04-00832.html.
In Austin on 30 January 1861 Reagan attended the Texas Secession Convention. He met specifically with Governor Houston and persuaded him to "submit to the will of the people" and recognize the convention. As a result, Texas withdrew from the Union on 1 February, and two days later delegates elected Reagan as one of the state's seven representatives to the Provisional Confederate Congress in Montgomery, Alabama. Within a month Reagan was appointed postmaster general of the Confederacy, whereupon he raided the U.S. Post Office of its documents and southern personnel.
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Robert E. Lee appointed commander of all Confederate troops in Virginia

"To avoid confusion," the Confederate States Secretary of War LeRoy Pope Walker in a brief letter appointed Major General Robert E. Lee to command all the Confederate forces in Virginia "until further notice."  Lee had earlier accepted command of all Virginia state units.  (By John Osborne)
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President Lincoln's twenty day grace period for the rebellion to "disperse" expires

On April 15, 1861, following the firing on Fort Sumter, President Lincoln had published an executive proclamation ordering that those in rebellion "disperse and retire peacebly to their respective abodes, within twenty days from this date." This day marked the expiry of that period. (By John Osborne) 
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“News from the ‘All Hazard’ Boys,” Atchison (KS) Freedom’s Champion, June 1, 1861

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News from the ‘All Hazard’ Boys
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“News from the ‘All Hazard’ Boys,” Atchison (KS) Freedom’s Champion, June 1, 1861, p. 2: 7.
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