Civil War Day-By-Day

May 2, 1861

A Chronological History of the Civil War in America¹

• New York 69th Regiment arrived in Washington.
• Colonel Elmer Ellsworth’s Fire Zouaves arrived in Washington.
• Judge Campbell, of Alabama, resigned his seat in the U. S. Supreme Court.

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