The American Civil War - Chronologically

April 27, 1861 Frederick, MD Kemp Hall -  Gov Hicks calls a special session here instead of Annapolis; they adjourn in the fall lacking quorum, as the secessionist were arrested.  https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=67247

April 20, 1861 U.S. Arsenal > later a Confederate retirement home Pikesville, MD  "Used" during the "war between the states," eh? Go on... This one started out as a mystery that just got bigger. Why was there a Confederate rest home here ? (still relatively unanswered) And did something else happen here? Yes... According to unattributed information on Wikipedia, "Confederates lived at Pikesville Arsenal during and after the American Civil War." OK, but - during ? I found no historical evidence of that but would love to. And also, what does this mean: "The Army left Pikesville Arsenal in 1879. Confederate veterans lived at the former arsenal from 1888 until 1932." It raises some questions. What wartime actions--if any--did the army engage in here? The historical marker seems to suggest the site saw action, but is pretty vague about it. And what happened to the Confederates who allegedly lived at the Arsenal during between 1865 and 1888? Did the...

April 19, 1861 The Pratt Street Riot Baltimore, MD Col. Edward Jones' 6th MA, and Col. William F. Small's PA militia (plus the BCPD under Marshal George P. Kane & the Mayor!) vs Maryland Copperhead Democrats - Mobtown  * 1st bloodshed of the Civil War? * 1st non-combatant casualty? * mob first attacks and fatally injures PA Volunteer George Leisenring  " The First Union Dead, Ellsworth was killed in Alexandria, Va., on May 24, after the death here of Whitney, Needham, and Ladd." (Not sure why Taylor doesn't make this list but adding him and Leisenring adds up to the official count of 5 dead).  * William Clark, of Company C, 15th South Carolina Heavy Artillery Battalion, killed by troops returning fire on the crowd, technically making him the first Confederate casualty of the war. "In 1861, as the Civil War began, Baltimore secessionists hoped to stop rail transportation to Washington and isolate the national capital. On April 19, the 6th Massachusetts Reg...

April 18, 1861 Harper's Ferry, WV Abandonment of Harper's Ferry -  Destruction of Ordnance stores

April 18, 1861 Camp Curtin opens (northern outskirts of) Harrisburg, PA - on the grounds of the Dauphin County Agricultural Society   "Here on 80 acres stood a great training camp of the Civil War. It was named after Andrew Gregg Curtin, Pennsylvania Governor, 1861-67. Between April 1861 and April 1865, more military units were organized here than at any other Northern camp." https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=202197 And here's Governor Curtin himself, along with all four panels of his monument. https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=202198 "A united country enjoys the fruits of their victory for liberty and Union." And here's the sign and the Camp Curtin Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, built in 1890 and possibly for sale today for $155K. The church actually spearheaded the Civil War memorialization themselves: " congregants petitioned the  Pennsylvania Legislature  to erect a monument near the church memorializing the site of the church as the site of the histori...