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Thursday, February 28, 1861

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Army Events:

			Operation:	Charleston Harbor, SC	December 20, 1860 - April 14, 1861
			Surrender:	Fort Chadbourne, TX	February 28, 1861
			Operation:	Fort Humboldt, CA	January 16 - May 18, 1861

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

Additional Information:

North Carolina elects delegates to a State Convention. The majority of voters in the state, however, vote against a Convention: yeas 46,671, neas 47,333.

Ex-President John Tyler (1841-1845) and James A. Seddon, Commissioners to the Peace Congress, present their report to the Virginia Legislature, and denounced the recommendations of that body as a delusion and a sham, and as an insult and an offense to the South.

Missouri Convention meets, with a motion to go into secret session defeated. A resolution requiring members to take an oath to support the Constitution of the United States and the State of Missouri was defeated: yeas 30, neas 65.

(Source: The Political History of the United States of America During the Great Rebellion 1860-1865. p. 2-47. Edward McPherson.)