January 21, 1861
- Five senators from Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi bid farewell to their colleagues in the upper house. Among them is Senator Jefferson Davis, future president of the Confederacy.
- All but 6 of the delegates to Georgia’s Secessionist Convention sign the Ordinances of Secession
Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina, 1861 (from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated History of the Civil War…, edited by Louis Shepheard Moat, Published by Mrs. Frank Leslie, New York, 1895)