The Footprints of Time / And a Complete Analysis of Our American System of Government, with a Concise History of the Original Colonies and of the United States, in Chronological Order

by Charles Bancroft

Gov. Moore calls extra session of Alabama Legislature. Election to Alabama Convention; secession majority over 50,000.

South Carolina Members of U. S. House of Representatives resign.

” 25—Maj. Anderson abandons Ft. Moultrie for Ft. Sumter, Charleston Harbor. He has only 111 men.

South Carolina Commissioners arrive in Washington. President Buchanan declines to receive them.

” 28—South Carolina authorities seize Castle Pinckney, Ft. Moultrie, U. S. Custom-House, and other government property; at Charleston.

” 29—John B. Floyd, U. S. Sec. of War, resigns. Joseph Holt, of Ky., appointed.

” 31—South Carolina sends Commissioners to Slave States to arrange the organization of a Southern Confederacy.

1861.

Jan. 2—Gov. Ellis, of North Carolina, takes possession of Ft. Macon.