Mr Stephen Karstaedt
Beloit WI
Historical Chronology:1861
- January 9: Mississippi secedes.
- January 10: Florida secedes.
- January 11: Alabama secedes.
- January 19: Georgia secedes.
- January 26: Louisiana secedes.
- February 1: Texas secedes.
- February 9: Jefferson Finis Davis elected President of the Confederate States of America.
- February 20: Confederate Department of the Navy established.
- February 21: Stephen Russell Mallory of Florida appointed Secretary of the Navy for the Confederacy.
- March 4: Abraham Lincoln inaugurated.
- March 7: Gideon Welles takes office as the Union Secretary of the Navy.
- March 23: USS Cumberland arrives in Hampton Roads.
- March 31: Welles orders 250 men from the Brooklyn Navy Yard to reinforce the Gosport Navy Yard, Portsmouth, VA.
- April 10: Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles orders Flag Officer Charles Stewart McCauley to get the USS Merrimack to sea.
- April 12: Confederates begin bombardment of Fort Sumter, South Carolina.
- April 14: Fort Sumter surrenders.
- April 15: Lincoln calls for 75,000 volunteers from states 'loyal to the Union.'
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