North and South Carolina, with headquarters at Fortress Monroe. May 19. Engagement between Sewall's Point Battery and four gunboats. May 20. North Carollna secedes. Governor Magoffin proclaims the neutrality of Kentucky. May 21. Tennessee seceded. Fortifications of Ship Island destroyed to keep them from the enemy. May 24. Thirteen thousand troops crossed the Potomac into Virginia. Alexandria occupied by Federal troops. Col. Ellsworth shot by Jackson at Alexandria, Va.; the murderer was instantly killed. GEN. PEMBERTON. The steamers Freeborn and Anacosta engaged the batteries at Acquia Creek the second time. June 3. Hon. S. A. Douglas died in Chicago. Born at Brandon, Vt., April 23, 1813. Gen. Beauregard assumes command of the Confederate forces at Manassas Junction, Va. June 10. Battle of Big Bethel. Major Winthrop, a brilliant scholar, a graduate of Harvard, killed. |