April 29, 1861
- Maryland’s House of Delegates votes not to secede from the Union. The vote is against convening a secessionist convention, dashing the hopes of a sizable pro-South group, but did not vote to end the legislative session.
A Chronological History of the Civil War in America1
- Legislature of Indiana voted $500,000 to arm the State.
- Legislature of Maryland repudiated secession—the Senate unanimously and the House by a vote of 53 to 15.
- C. S. Congress reassembles at Montgomery.
- A Chronological History of the Civil War in America by Richard Swainson Fisher, New York, Johnson and Ward, 1863