Civil War Day-By-Day

May 18, 1861

A Chronological History of the Civil War in America¹

• Rebel batteries at Sewell’s Point, Va., dislodged. This was the first offensive operation of the Government against the rebels.
• Arkansas admitted as a State of the Confederate States of America.

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