From rudimentary beginnings, Confederate Post-Master General John Henniger Reagan had been organizing postal service in the South for months before starting to sell the Confederacy's first postage stamps.  The Richmond firm of Hoyer and Ludwig had the contract and produced lithographed five cent stamps, in unperforated sheets of one hundred, bearing the likeness of C.S.A. President Jefferson Davis.  (By John Osborne)  

African-Americans had been enlisted in limited numbers into the pre-Civil War navy and this continued as the war began.  With the publicity surrounding the "contrabands" congregating around Union installations during the first six months of the war, the Secretary of the Navy authorized the enlistment of runaway slaves into the United States Naval on a restricted basis of rank and pay. Such enlistment grew and by the end of the war the Navy had more than 23,000 black sailors, around twenty percent of all naval enlisted men.  (By John Osborne) 

At Prestwick in Ayrshire, forty year-old Scotsman Tom Morris, Senior won the second ever Open Golf Championship.  He had come second in the inaugural tournament the previous year. He went on to win the following year, by thirteen strokes, a record margin of victory in a major that stood for more than 140 years. His son, "Young Tom," later followed him as an Open champion, winning four times in a row before dying suddenly at age 24.  "Old Tom" died in 1908 and was buried at St. Andrews. (By John Osborne)