Civil War Day-By-Day

May 1, 1861

• Robert E. Lee orders Stonewall Jackson to remove the weapons and equipment from the arsenal at Harpers Ferry

A Chronological History of the Civil War in America¹

• The legislature of North Carolina passes a State Convention Bill.

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