Civil War Day-by-Day
    

Civil War Day-By-Day

April 14, 1861

  • During the formal surrender of Fort Sumter Private Daniel Hough dies when the cannon he was loading (for the Union’s 100-gun salute to the U.S. flag) discharges prematurely. He is the first man to die in the Civil War. A second man is mortally wounded.
  • Major Anderson and his men left Fort Sumter and sailed for New York.1

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