5 April 1861

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1. First $50 and $100 Montgomery banknotes issued

http://www.csacurrency.com/csacur/csat1_4d.htm

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2. I don't understand

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3. Forty-Fourth Day of the Virginia Secession Convention

Mr. Stuart concludes his remarks, predicting that secession will bring about the end of slavery ...

... By pursuing this course, you will, in my humble opinion, unite the people of the North in one solid mass against our institutions. Then we will have the whole world arrayed against us. Can we expect our friends in the North to stand by us, after we have destroyed the Government and brought ruin upon them? It is hopeless to expect so. Then I hold that secession or ,revolution is no remedy for the evils complained of, but is an aggravation of them, and will, if persisted in, lead to the extermination of slavery ...

http://collections.richmond.edu/secession/documents/?keyword=&delegates=harviele%2C&formType=Delegates&start=51&order=date&direction=ascending&id=pb.3.178

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4. Edward Lear’s Diaries

Fine ― but cloudy.

A particularly pleasant day: ― rose at 9. Breakfast ― Mildmay is a far nicer fellow than he seems at first. Made a plan for haninging the Drawng-room pictures. ―Lunch. ― Afterwards ― walked with Mrs. Clive all about the pine=avenue, Yatton chapel &c. &c ...

Dinner & evening pleasant ...

http://www.nonsenselit.org/diaries/2011/04/05/friday-5-april-1861/

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5. Diary of a Yankee in the Patent Office

by Horatio Nelson Taft

FRIDAY 5

Warmer today but a white frost this morning. Gardens are being made now and the Peach trees are blossoming. The grass is quite green in the public grounds and the trees are leafing out, and the City will soon assume a gay and beautiful appearance. Did not go on to the Ave tonight. Have had a man at work cleaning out the celler (my wood house) and doing some work in the yard. Got a load of manure. The man is coming tomorrow to spade up the little garden & I will plant it. Boys are much exercised over the first litter of chickens. 11 o’clock.

http://www.cw-chronicles.com/blog/1861/04/05/

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6. Credentials of Kansas's first Senators

http://www.archives.gov/legislative/features/kansas/credentials.html

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7. A Georgia soldier from Clay County signed his enlistment oath.

http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/CivilWar/marapr61.htm#apr051861

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8. A Flag of Truce from Fort Sumpter (NYT)

Published: April 5, 1861
WASHINGTON, Thursday, April 4.

Another dispatch from Charleston has been received, which states that two officers had landed from Fort Sumpter with a white flag, and had gone to head-quarters with Col. HATCH ...

http://www.nytimes.com/1861/04/05/news/a-flag-of-truce-from-fort-sumpter.html?scp=4&sq=April+5%2C+1861&st=p

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9. Committed to jail as a Runaway (Richmond Daily Dispatch, 5 April 1861)

--Was committed to the jail in corporation of the city of Norfolk, on 2d day of January, 1861, Negro Man name Johnson. The said negro man is five feetthree inches high, and weighs about 125 pounds has one scar on right arm above his elbow; complexion; about thirty years old.

Had on when committed to jail, black coat, black pants, glazed cap, and says he is born free, in Baltimore, Maryland.

Thos. J. Corprew

Sergeant City Norfolk.

http://imls.richmond.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ddr;cc=ddr;view=text;idno=ddr0133.0019.079;rgn=div3;node=ddr0133.0019.079%3A6.17.5

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10. April 5, 1861: Nojoqui Valley (California)

by William H. Brewer

As I could not agree with Dr. Antisell, of the Pacific Railroad Survey, in his notions of the geology of the pass ... Averill and I rode through it, and climbed two high hills. We had fine views of the ocean over the pass, and the labyrinth of hills to the north of the Santa Inez River. We got some fossils and I killed a rattlesnake that we came upon—he was inclined to get away at first, but fought bravely when attacked. He was not very long—two and a half feet—but was very thick—half as large as a large man’s wrist—and had eight rattles.

http://upanddowncalifornia.wordpress.com/2011/04/05/april-5-1861-nojoqui-valley/

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11. Fort Quitman Texas given up by Federal troops

... On September 28, 1858, Capt. Arthur T. Lee and companies C and H, Eighth Infantry, established the post on a barren and sandy plain 400 yards east of the Rio Grande to protect travelers and mail along the route from San Antonio to El Paso. It was named for Mexican War general John A. Quitman, who had died on July 17.

Federal troops evacuated Fort Quitman on April 5, 1861 ...

http://civilwartalk.com/forums/showthread.php?120910-April-5-1861-Fort-Quitman-Texas-given-up-by-Federal-troops

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12. John Henry Brown’s Journal

John Henry Brown was a painter of portrait miniatures, living and working in Philadelphia. He had met Lincoln in August of 1860 when he was commissioned to paint Lincoln’s portrait for a supporter, but although Brown liked Lincoln personally, he did not agree with Republican policies

... This prostration or suspension of business, is continued by Mr. Lincolns policy, or rather perhaps for want of a policy on his part clearly & distinctly defined. If there was a certainty that he would not resort to coercive measures in the settlement of our troubles, business would soon revive. As it is, we have a report from Washington, one day, to strengthen our hopes that peace will be continued, next day one to destroy that hope. This alternation from hope to fear perplexes men of money, who of course, while this uncertainty continues, will not invest their means.

http://rosenbach.org/civilwar/?p=776

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13. A Rugged Issue (Cleveland Herald)

It seems that it was the new Republican United States Marshall who made the arrest of the slave family, Harris, in Chicago, and carried them off by special train

http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/35521

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14. Comet Thatcher

... This comet was discovered on April 5th, 1861, by A.E. Thatcher of New York at a magnitude of 7.5 in the constellation of Draco, and according to Kronk, was described as "a tailless nebulosity 2 arcmin in diameter with a central condensation." The orbit of this parent comet was determined to be elliptical, with a period of about 415 years ...

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2000/ast18apr_1notes/

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15. 1st Florida Infantry

... The original Old 1st Florida Infantry was organized at the Chattahoochee Arsenal on April 5, 1861 for 12 months service. It was the first Florida unit organized for Confederate service. Eight of the companies were raised in the Florida panhandle, from Tallahassee to Madison, while two came from Alachua County in central-northern Florida ...

http://www.acwv.info/1-files-veterans/S/smith-john/smith-john.htm

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16. Taney Court now has only seven members, Justice John McLean having died.

http://www.oyez.org/courts/taney/tane14

It will lose another member in May, when Justice John Campbell resigns

http://www.oyez.org/courts/taney/tane14b

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17. The Daily Journal (Wilmington NC) is printing "Confederate States of America" in it's dateline.

http://www.rarenewspapers.com/list?list_results_format=standard&page=5&per_page=20&q=105&sort=items.id&sort_direction=ASC

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18. The USS Powhatan Ordered to be in Two Places at Once

Friday, April 5, 1861

Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles sent the orders to put Fox’s plan to resupply Sumter into action. Lincoln had read, approved and signed the orders giving Captain Samuel Mercer, commander of the USS Powhatan instructions to ready his ship and assume command over the Pocahontas, Pawnee and Harriet Lane for a mission to resupply Sumter ...

As for the USS Powhatan, it was now a ship that both Lt. David Porter and Captain Samuel Mercer believed they commanded ...

http://civilwardailygazette.com/2011/04/05/the-uss-powhatan-ordered-to-be-two-places-at-once/