Thursday, January 10, 1861
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| Seizure: | Barrancas Barracks, FL | January 10, 1861 | Seizure: | Baton Rouge, LA | January 10, 1861 | Operation: | Charleston Harbor, SC | December 20, 1860 - April 14, 1861 | Seizure: | Fort Caswell, NC | January 10, 1861 | Seizure: | Fort Jackson, LA | January 10, 1861 | Seizure: | Fort St. Phillip, LA | January 10, 1861 |
(Source: Compendium of the War of the Rebellion Vol. I, p. 660-991. Frederick H. Dyer.)
Naval Events:
Forts Jackson and St. Philip, Mississippi River, Louisiana, were seized by Louisiana State troops.(Source: Civil War Naval Chronology 1861-1865. pp. I:1-41; II:1-117; III:1-170; IV:1-152; V:1-134. 1971: Naval History Division, Navy Department.)
Additional Information:
Florida passes ordinance of Secession: yeas 62, neas 7. Florida secedes from the Union.
Mississippi receives Commissioners from other States, adopts several resolution, and recognizes South Carolina as sovereign and independent.
Virginia Governor transmits a despatch from the Mississippi Convention, announcing its unconditional secession from the Union, and desiring on the basis of the old Constitution to form a new union with the seceding States.
Virginia House adopts: yeas 77, neas 61, an amendment submitting to a vote of the people the question of referring for their decision any action of the Convention dissolving Virginia's connection to the Union, or changing its organic law. The Richmond Enquirer denounces "the emasculation of the Convention Bill as imperilling all that Virginians hold most sacred and dear."
U.S. guns and stores on board the steamship Texas are seized by Texas State troops in Galveston, Texas.
Forts Jackson and Saint Phillip, Louisiana, at the mouth of the Mississippi River, and Fort Pike, on Lake Ponchartrain, and the U.S. Arsenal at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, are seized by Louisiana State troops. The Arsenal contained 50,000 small arms, 4 howitzers, 20 heavy pieces of ordinance, 2 batteries, and 300 barrels of gun powder.
(Source: The Political History of the United States of America During the Great Rebellion 1860-1865. p. 2-47. Edward McPherson.)