Civil War Day-By-Day

May 7, 1861

A Chronological History of the Civil War in America¹

• Riot at Knoxville, Tenn., on hoisting a Union flag.
• Governor of Tennessee announced a military league between that State and the Confederate States.

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