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Chronology of the Secession Crisis

Most of the items here can be found in E.B. Long's Civil War Day by Day (Doubleday, 1971), a standard and very valuable reference work.

Copyright 1996 James F. Epperson

January 11, 1860:  Alabama Democratic Party adopts the Alabama Platform.  
 February 27, 1860:  Abraham Lincoln addresses gathering at the Cooper Union in New York City.  
 March 6, 1860:  Lincoln gives speech in New Haven, Connecticut.  
 April 23, 1860: Democratic Convention opens in Charleston, SC.  
 May 3, 1860: Democratic Convention adjourns after Deep South delegations withdraw over the slavery plank in the platform.  
 May 9, 1860:  Constitutional Union Party nominates John Bell of Tennessee for the Presidency.  
 May 18, 1860: Republican Party nominates Abraham Lincoln for the Presidency.  
 June 18, 1860:  Democrats reconvene in Baltimore, MD.  
 June 22, 1860:  Deep South delegates again withdraw from the Democratic Convention.  
 June 23, 1860:  "Regular" Democrats nominate Stephen A. Douglas; the "Southern" wing of the party nominates John C. Breckinridge.  
 November 6, 1860:  Lincoln defeats Douglas, Breckinridge, and Bell for the Presidency.  
 November 14, 1860:  Alexander Stephens addresses the Georiga legislature on secession.  
 November 30, 1860:  Mississippi legislature passes resolutions in favor of secession.  
 December 18, 1860: Crittenden Compromise introduced in Congress.  
 December 20, 1860: South Carolina convention passes ordinance of seccession.  
 December 26, 1860: Major Anderson moves Federal garrison in Charleston, SC, from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter.  
 January 3, 1861:  Georgia seizes Fort Pulaski.  
 January 4, 1861:  Alabama seizes U.S. arsenal at Mount Vernon.  
 January 5, 1861:  Alabama seizes Forts Morgan and Gaines.  
 January 6, 1861:  Florida seizes Apalachicola arsenal.  
 January 7, 1861:  Florida seizes Fort Marion.  
 January 8, 1861:  Floridians try to seize Fort Barrancas but are chased off.  
 January 9, 1861:  Mississippi secedes. 
 Star of the West fired on in Charleston Harbor 
   
 January 10, 1861:  Florida secedes. 
 Louisiana seizes U.S. arsenal at Baton Rouge, as well as Forts Jackson and St. Philip. 
   
 January 11, 1861:  Alabama secedes. 
 Louisiana seizes U.S. Marine Hospital. 
   
 January 14, 1861:  Louisiana seizes Fort Pike.  
 January 19, 1861:  Georgia secedes.  
 January 26, 1861:  Louisiana secedes.  
 January 28, 1861:  Tennessee Resolutions in favor of Crittenden Compromise offered in Congress.  
 February 1, 1861:  Texas secedes.  
 February 8, 1861:  Provisional Constitution of the Confederacy adopted in Montgomery, AL. 
 Arkansas seizes U.S. Arsenal at Little Rock. 
   
 February 12, 1861:  Arkansas seizes U.S. ordnance stores at Napoleon.  
 February 18, 1861:  Jefferson Davis inaugurated as President of the Confederacy.  
 March 4, 1861:  Abraham Lincoln inaugurated as 16th President of the United States.  
 March 21, 1861:  "Cornerstone speech" delivered by Alexander Stephens.  
 April 12, 1861:  Fort Sumter fired upon by Confederates.  
 

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