Governor Curtin commandeered the empty Girard House Hotel in the center of Philadelphia as a military depot a few days before. It opened primarily as a great uniform sewing factory.  On the first day, large numbers of Philadelphia working women were employed, including two hundred cutters and enough seamstresses to sew a thousand uniforms a day.  Three days later, two thousand people were at work there. (By John Osborne)

George Leisenring was a 26 year-old German immigrant from the Kensington area of Philadelphia who had enlisted in the "Washington Guards."  His brigade, on its way to Washington, unarmed and without uniforms, was trapped at the President Street Station by the Baltimore mob.  Leisenring, stabbed in the back and side in a train car, died three days later at the Pennsylvania Hospital, the first Pennsylvania to die in the war. (By John Osborne)

Authorities announced that Philadelphia had since the firing on Fort Sumter enlisted 9,600 men in all.  The War Department's assessment for troops on April 15, 1861 was sixteen regiments from Pennsylvania; Philadelphia's share was to have been six regiments, or around 5,000 men. (By John Osborne)