Civil War Day-By-Day

May 11, 1861

A Chronological History of the Civil War in America¹

• Blockade of Charleston established.
• Government troops again attacked by the St. Louis mob—four rioters killed, etc.
• Great Union demonstration in San Francisco.

1. A Chronological History of the Civil War in America by Richard Swainson Fisher, New York, Johnson and Ward, 1863