Civil War Day-By-Day

August 24, 1861

• President Davis names James M. Mason as commissioner to Great Britain and John Slidell as commissioner to France.

A Chronological History of the Civil War in America¹

• Of?ces of the Bridgeport (Ct) Farmer and of the Cumberland (Md) Alleghanian (secession papers) destroyed by mobs.
  Mayor Berrett, of Washington, D. C., arrested on charge of treason, and conveyed to Fort Lafayette.
• Gov. Gamble, of Missouri, issued a proclamation calling for 42,000 troops to assist in driving the rebels from the State.
• Transmission of secession journals through the mails prohibited.

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