April 15, 1861
- President Abraham Lincoln calls for 75,000 volunteers to quell the insurrection that soon became the American Civil War.
- Braxton Bragg places Lt. John Worden under arrest in Pensicola, Florida, making him the first prisoner-of-war in the American Civil War.
- Rejecting Lincoln’s call for troops, Tennessee Governor Isham Harris orders a second session of the state legislature to consider the question of a secessionist convention.
- President of the United States issued his proclamation calling for 75,000 volunteers, and commanding the rebels to return to peace within 20 days. An extra session of Congress called.1
- The great uprising of the people of the loyal States commences. Legislatures vote men and money; banks offer loans to the Government; great public meetings are held, and proclamations, military orders, etc., become the order of the day. In the principal cities mobs visit newspaper offices and firms suspected of disloyalty and compel them to raise the stars and stripes. Union badges worn by every one.1
- Legislature of New York voted 30,000 men and $3,000,000 for putting down the rebellion.1
- A Chronological History of the Civil War in America by Richard Swainson Fisher, New York, Johnson and Ward, 1863