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Friday, February 15, 1861

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Army Events:

			Operation:	Charleston Harbor, SC	December 20, 1860 - April 14, 1861
			Operation:	Fort Humboldt, CA	January 16 - May 18, 1861
			Scouts:	Willow Creek, OR	February 5 - 17, 1861

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Resignation:

Raphael Semmes, USN, from his U.S. Naval Commission, in Washington, D.C.

(Source: Compendium of the War of the Rebellion Vol. I, p. 660-991. Frederick H. Dyer; The Chronological Tracking Of The American Civil War Per The Offical Records Of The War of the Rebellion pp. 1-336. Ronald A. Mosocco.)

Naval Events:

Raphael Semmes, later captain of C.S.S. Sumter and Alabama, resigned his commission in the United States Navy.

(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:

The Montgomery Convention, acting as the provisional Confederate Congress, passes a resolution to take Fort Sumter, South Carolina, and Fort Pickens, Florida, by "whatever means necessary."

(Source: A Concise Encyclopedia of the Civil War, p. 203-221. Henry E. Simmons 1965.)