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Monday, December 24, 1860

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Army Events:

Operation:

Charleston Harbor, SC

December 20, 1860 - April 14, 1861

(Source: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, (Dayton: Broadfoot Publishing Co., 1994), 2 vols.)

Additional Information:

The United States Senate's Committee of Thirteen rejects the Crittenden Compromise.

A proclamation declaring South Carolina separate, independent, free, and sovereign is issued by Governor Francis W. Pickens.

New York Senator William H. Seward proposes an amendment to the U. S. Constitution that Congress should never interfere with slaves in the states, that jury trials be given to fugitive slaves, and that state constitutions with personal liberty laws in opposition to the U. S. Constitution be revised.

(Source: Henry E. Simmons, ed., A Concise Encyclopedia of the Civil War, ( New York: Bonanza Books, 1965) , pp. 13-201; Joe Kirchberger, The Civil War and Reconstruction: An Eyewitness History (New York: Facts On File, Inc., 1991), pp. 21-25; 44-47; 69-72; 88-95; 143-145; 162-170; 195-216; 255-259.)