The Extra!!! Edition of the American Civil War Gazette contains back issues as well as additional articles that did not appear in the daily edition.
In addition to this app you need the FREE American Civil War Gazette app.
Once installed, open the American Civil War Gazette app, and from the article list simply browse through any date in April 1861.
Highlights of the April 1861 Edition:
- Gen. Beauregard (C.S.A.) prepares to take Fort Sumter
- Attack upon Fort Sumter inaugurates hostilities
- Lincoln calls for 75,000 troops to be raised
- Virginia secedes
- It is feared that Washington will be taken
- Massachusetts troops are attacked by Baltimore citizens while en-route to defend Washington
- Robert E. Lee declines command of the U.S. Army, resigns from U.S. Army, and accepts command of Virginia Forces
- Lincoln declares blockade of the South
- Davis announces he will issue Letters of Marque and Reprisal
- Norfolk Navy Yard taken by Southern forces
- Maryland rejects secession
