Tuesday, January 8, 1861

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Army Events:

Operation: Charleston Harbor, SC December 20, 1860 - April 14, 1861

(Source: Compendium of the War of the Rebellion Vol. I, p. 660-991. Frederick H. Dyer.)


Additional Information:

Secretary of the Interior Jacob Thompson, from Mississippi, resigns after receiving word that his state is about to secede.

Alabama Convention receives Commissioner from South Carolina.

North Carolina Senate Bill arming the State passes the North Carolina House: yeas 73, neas 26.

Virginia Legislature passes anti-coercion resolution.

U. S. Secretary of the Interior Jacob Thompson resigns because "additional troops, he had heard, have been ordered to Charleston" in the Star of the West.

(Source: The Political History of the United States of America During the Great Rebellion 1860-1865. p. 2-47. Edward McPherson; A Concise Encyclopedia of the Civil War, p. 203-221. Henry E. Simmons 1965.)



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