The day after the inauguration, the Senate swiftly confirmed the new President's cabinet choices.  These included William Seward for State, Salmon Chase for Treasury, Simon Cameron for the War Department,  Gideon Welles for the Navy, Caleb Smith for Interior, Montgomery Blair for the Post Office, and Edward Bates as Attorney-General.  President Lincoln had entertained them all for dinner together the day before he was sworn in.  (By John Osborne)

The Confederate Congress passed a detailed bill to create the Confederate Army.  It was planned to consist of six regiments of infantry - each of ten companies, one of cavalry, together with a corps of artillery and a corps of engineers.  Four brigadier-generals were to be appointed and the total number of troops authorized comprised 364 officers and 10,373 enlisted men.  Colonels of Infantry were to be paid $195 a month while infantry privates drew $12.  (By John Osborne)  

Four days after General Twiggs surrendered his command, Texas authorities discussed with Lieutenant B. H. Hill, U.S. Artillery, then in command of Fort Brown on the Rio Grande in deep south-east Texas, the evacuation of all federal troops who did not wish to join the Confederacy.  Hill refused this, called it treason, and began to consolidate forces on the post.  Later, he considered his isolated position, surrendered the fort, and marched with his men to the coast.  (By John Osborne)   

Now former-President James Buchanan spent the night after the inauguration at the home of a friend, District-Attorney Robert Ould, in Washington and then left for Lancaster, Pennsylvania by train.  He was escorted across the city by friends from Lancaster and two troops of mounted infantry.  He was well received when he changed trains in Baltimore and arrived at his home "Wheatland" outside Lancaster the next day.  (By John Osborne)  

James Buchanan signed into law the recently passed bill and the Territory of Nevada came into being.  Abraham Lincoln became president two days later and it was left to him to appoint James W. Nye of New York as the first territorial governor.  Nevada was admitted as the thirty-sixth state on October 31, 1864.  (By John Osborne) 

The Confederate president named New Orleans native Pierre G. T. Beauregard as a general and appointed him to take command of the troops concentrating in Charleston, South Carolina around the federal outpost at Fort Sumter.  Beauregard had till recently been an engineering major in the U.S. Army and had been removed from his one week old appointment as superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in January, 1861.  (By John Osborne)