January 1, 1861
- On New Year’s Day Georgians go to the polls to elect either a pro-Union or pro-Seccession slate of delegates to a state convention to be held in Milledgeville. According to Gov. Brown the results are overwhelmingly pro-secession, however, later research by the Georgia Historical Society indicates that the returns were overstated in favor of the secessionists.
- A Virginia pro-Union meeting in Parkersburg (now West Virginia) resolves that “secession is revolution.”
The image is of Fort Sumter, seen from the rear, at low water (Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War)