Senators from the six Gulf States (including Georgia) reach agreement that further attempts at reconciliation between the northern and southern States are pointless. They resolve to urge that their State governments secede as soon as possible and form “a more perfect union.”
[added 10/4/2026]
The Militia of Alabama seizes Forts Morgan and Gaines, which protect the entrance to Mobile Bay. The Militia also seizes the federal arsenal at Mount Vernon.
[restored 3/11/2022]
Commander-in-Chief Buchanan orders the USS Star of the West to resupply Fort Sumter, South Carolina.
NOTE: Buchanan had no reason to do this, other than to exacerbate tensions between the united States and South Carolina governments; nonpartisan (constitutionalist) Governor Francis W. Pickens was allowing food and water into the fort, as long munitions or troops were not brought in.
[restored 1/18/2025]
Subsequent Events:
Authority:
unanimous Declaration (of Independence), Paragraph 6
ccc-2point0.com/unanimous-declaration-of-independence
Alabama Constitution of 1819, Article IV, Section 6
avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/ala1819.asp
References:
Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 282.
Maury Klein, Days of Defiance: Sumter, Secession and the Coming of the Civil War, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997), 193.
Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 152.
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