User:South Nashua/Civil War/1861

User:South Nashua/Civil War/1861 Notes

1861

January

• January 3 – Delaware votes not to secede from the Union.
• January 9 – Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union
• January 10 – Florida secedes from the Union.
• January 11 – Alabama secedes from the Union.
• January 12 – Major Robert Anderson sends dispatches to Washington.
• January 18 – Georgia secedes from the Union.
• January 21 – Jefferson Davis resigns from the United States Senate.
• January 26 – Louisiana secedes from the Union.