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

Gen. R. E. Lee takes command of Southern troops in Virginia.

” 13—Convention called at Wheeling to organize a new State.

” 14—Vessels with stores and property for the South seized at Baltimore.

” 15—Massachusetts offers U.S. Government $7,000,000 to carry on the war.

” 16—Gen. Scott orders the fortification of Arlington Heights.

” 17—Confederates commence fortifying Harpers Ferry.

” 18—Gen. Butler takes command of Department of Virginia.

” 19—Sewalls Pt. attacked by U S. steamers. Two schooners, with Southern troops, captured.

” 20—North Carolina formally secedes. Kentucky proclaimed neutral.