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| | Timeline 1860-1861 |
 | | 1861 Jun 29, William James Mayo, co-founder of the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, was born. | | | 1861 Feb 18, Jefferson F. Davis was inaugurated as the Confederacy& provisional president at a ceremony held in Montgomery, Ala., where the Confederate constitutional convention was held. | | | 1861 Nov 6, Jefferson Davis was elected to a six-year term as president of the Confederacy. |
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http://timelines.ws/1860_1861.HTML
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| | Willimantic Journal January 1861 |
| | TWJ Fri Jan 4, 1861: The Herald's dispatch from Washington states that the southern states will not stand by South Carolina in her insane movements, that her course is not approved of by one in ten of the most extreme southern men. | | | TWJ Fri Jan 4, 1861: It is currently reported that the secessionists in South Carolina are already obliged to resort to the Mexican devise of forced loans to raise the "sinews of war." Merchants and other men of property are compelled by threats of personal violence to become subscribers to the State loan. | | | TWJ Fri Jan 4, 1861: At a Court of Probate holden at Brooklyn, within and for the District of Brooklyn, on the 26th day of December, A.D. Present, S. Davison, Judge. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Fields/4791/january1861willimanticjournal.html
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| | March, 1861 |
| | Memorandum on Appointments to Territories, 20 March 1861, CW, 4:294-95. | | | Washington Star, 4 March 1861; National Intelligencer, 5 March 1861; Monaghan, Diplomat, 38; First Inaugural Address—Final Text, 4 March 1861, CW, 4:262-71. | | | Ashley to Case, 19 March 1861, Salmon P. Chase Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC. |
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http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/lincoln/month.php?yyyy=1861&mm=3
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| | Time Line of The Civil War - 1861 |
| | At a convention in Montgomery, Alabama, the seven seceding states created the Confederate Constitution, a document similar to the United States Constitution, but with greater stress on the autonomy of each state. | | | This section of Virginia was admitted into the Union as the state of West Virginia on June 20, 1863. | | | Jefferson Davis was named provisional president of the Confederacy until elections could be held. |
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http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/tl1861.html
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| | Chapter 9: The Civil War, 1861 |
| | Republican Abraham Lincoln was elected to succeed Buchanan; although he failed to win a majority of the popular vote, he received 180 of the 303 electoral votes. | | | The inauguration that was to vest in him the powers of the Presidency would take place March 4, 1861. | | | (Map 21) To the seven states that formed the Confederate States of America on February 18, 1861, at Montgomery, Alabama, retention of the forts by the U.S. Government was equivalent to a warlike act. |
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http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/amh/AMH-09.htm
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| | Presidential Inaugurations: Abraham Lincoln, First Inauguration, March 4, 1861 |
| | Arrangements for the inauguration of the president of the United States on the Fourth of March, 1861... | | | The Inaugural Procession at Washington passing the gate at the Capitol grounds, [March 4, 1861]. | | | Inaugural Bible used for Lincoln's first inauguration, March 4, 1861. |
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http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pihtml/pi021.html
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| | American Civil War: 1861 |
| | On 15th April, 1861, Abraham Lincoln called on the governors of the Northern states to provide 75,000 militia to serve for three months to put down the insurrection. | | | President Jefferson Davis took the view that after a state seceded, federal forts became the property of the state. | | | This upset the Radical Republicans in Congress who wanted to turn the conflict into a war against slavery. |
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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcivilwar2.htm
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| | The Avalon Project : Confederate States of America |
| | Inaugural Address of the President of the Provisional Government; February 18, 1861. | | | Message to Congress April 29, 1861 (Ratification of the Constitution) | | | A Resolution for the Appointment of Commissioners to the Government of the United States of America; February 15, 1861 |
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http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/csa/csapage.htm
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| | The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865: Topical Access to State Official Documents |
| | Ordinances and Constitution of the State of Alabama: With the Constitution of the Provisional Government and of the Confederate States of America | | | Ordinances and Constitution of the State of South Carolina: with the Constitution of the Provisional Government and of the Confederate States of America | | | Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia, for the Extra Session, 1861. |
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http://docsouth.unc.edu/imls/states.html
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| | Inventory of the Wilmot G. DeSaussure Order-Book, 1860-1861 |
| | The orders come from two distinct periods separated by an interval, 2 January-1 March 1861, when DeSaussure was relieved of command in order to attend to his duties as a member of the South Carolina legislature. | | | Wilmot G. DeSaussure was a lieutenant colonel in the 1st Artillery Regiment of the South Carolina Militia, which was later absorbed into the Army of the Confederate States of America. | | | The orders, most of which were issued by Governor Francis W. Pickens, are concerned with taking possession of Fort Moultrie by South Carolina forces, its rehabilitation, and plans to prevent reinforcement of Fort Sumter by the United States government. |
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http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/htm/03330.html
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| | USN Ships--USS Ottawa (1861-1865) |
| | Ottawa's initial assignment was as part of the force that captured Port Royal, South Carolina, in November 1861. | | | Bombardment and Capture of Port Royal, South Carolina, 7 November 1861 | | | In 1862, she helped take Fernandina, Florida, and islands along the Georgia coast. |
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http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-o/ottawa.htm
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| | The American Civil War Homepage |
| | Davis's Address to the Provisional Confederate Congress (April 29, 1861) (courtesy of Jim Epperson) | | | Davis's Inaugural Address as President, C.S.A., February 18, 1861 | | | The Constitution of the Confederate States of America |
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http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html
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| | Southern Confederacy [Atlanta, GA], 1861-1863 |
| | We are glad to learn that the success of the establishment warrants an enlargement of its business, and take it as an earnest of the continued prosperity which is destined to crown the manufacturing enterprises of this "Lowell of the South."--Columbus Sun. | | | And fills the poor house and the jail? | | | Millington, of Selma, Alabama, has been committed to Dallas jail, without bail, on a charge of murdering a slave. |
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http://www.uttyler.edu/vbetts/southern_confederacy.htm
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| | Gold Rush Chronology 1857 - 1861 |
| | Great mass meeting in favor of the Union held in San Francisco, on Washington's Birthday. | | | It was the first company in the state to carry on the business of fire and marine insurance. | | | Meeting was called by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors under Resolution No. 1061 of Feb. 18, 1861. |
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http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist/chron5.html
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| | 1861 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | August 5 - American Civil War: In order to help pay for the war effort, the United States government issues the first income tax as part of the Revenue Act of 1861 (3% of all incomes over US $800; rescinded in 1872). | | | May 13 - American Civil War: Victoria of the United Kingdom issues a "proclamation of neutrality" which recognizes the breakaway states as having belligerent rights. | | | July 26 - American Civil War: George McClellan assumes command of the Army of the Potomac following a disastrous Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1861
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| | Foreign Relations of the United States - 1861 |
| | Foreign Relations of the United States - 1861 | | | List of old vessels that have been purchased and loaded with stone for the purpose of sinking and closing certain ports of the States in insurrction (p. | | | Statement of vessels seized, captured and destroyed by vessels in the naval service, 1861 (p. |
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| | [CD-ROM] The Civil War 1861 - 1864 from Empire | | | The Civil War: Episode One - The Cause - 1861 | | | The Civil War 1861-65: Confederacy - The Music of South |
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| | First Battle of Bull Run Manassas Junction Virginia American Civil War |
| | On the 21st of July 1861, 60,000 American soldiers from the North and South met along the banks of Bull Run. | | | This new and revised edition of the original 1977 book offers the reader a splendid narrative of the first major battle of the American Civil War. | | | In the fighting that followed the Union forces lost 2,900 out of the 20,000 men engaged while the Confederates lost 2,000 out of about 17,000 engaged. |
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| | Natchez Daily Courier, 1861-1863 |
| | Quarter-Master Dep't, Army of Miss, Jackson, Oct. 24, 1861. | | | Madison McAfee, Q.M.G. DAILY COURIER, November 2, 1861, p. | | | The Ladies' Military Aid Society, of Natchez and Adams County, meet daily (Sundays excepted) in the Courthouse, upstairs, from 6 A.M. to 7 P.M. to make up clothes for Volunteers, in both the State and Confederate service. |
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http://www.uttyler.edu/vbetts/natchez_courier.htm
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| | Search 1861 Wales Census |
| | All responses were to reflect the individual's status as of 7 April 1861 for all individuals who had spent the night in the house. | | | People who were traveling or living abroad were enumerated at the location where they spent the night on census night. | | | The 1861 Census for Wales was taken on the night of 7 April 1861. |
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| | This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. | | | In addition to the multiple-choice responses (MCR's), the sender may elect to receive confirmation when the message is first viewed by the recipient. | | | Relationship to Other IETF Work The strategy of this specification, and many of its details, were reviewed by an IETF Working Group and three IESG members. |
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| | Frederick Law Olmsted: Biography and Much More From Answers.com |
| | The last of these, "Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom" (1861), published during the first six months of the American Civil War, helped inform and galvanize antislavery sentiment in New England. | | | Hartford, Conn. He first attained fame for accounts of his travels in the South in the early 1850s, in which he painted vivid pictures of slaveholding society—A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States (1856), A Journey through Texas (1857), A Journey in the Back Country (1860), and Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom (1861). | | | His dispatches were collected into multiple volumes which remain vivid, first-person social documents of the pre-war South. |
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http://www.answers.com/Frederick%20Law%20Olmstead
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| | 1861 Charles A. Dana Article |
| | Source: Ripley, George & Charles A. Dana (eds.) The New American Cyclopedia, NY, 1861. | | | Notes: Although he is credited here as being the author of this article (for provisional citation purposes), there is nothing in the original publication which specifically points to Dana as the sole writer. | | | Click here for a higher resolution view of this image. |
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