8. United States sub-Treasury at Charleston seized.
9. Mississippi Ordinance of Secession passed.
9. Steamship Star of the West, with supplies for Fort Sumter, fired into from Morris’ Island and Fort Moultrie, and driven from Charleston harbor.
11. Louisiana State troops, under Captain Bradford, took possession of the U.S. marine hospital, two miles below New Orleans, and ordered the removal of the patients, 216 in number.
11. Florida Convention adopted an Ordinance of Secession by a vote of 62 to 7.
11. Alabama Convention adopted an Ordinance of Secession by a vote of 61 to 39.
11. Abolition meeting at Rochester, N. Y., broken up by a mob.
12. Senator Seward’s great Union speech in the U.S. Senate.
12. Fort Barrancas and the Navy Yard at Pensacola, Fla., seized by rebel troops.
15. Col. Hayne, Commissioner from South Carolina to Washington, demanded the withdrawal of the garrison of Fort Sumter.