Each day, a portion of the posts published here are shared on the American Civil War Chronicles Facebook page and/or The American Civil War Facebook page.
Over the next 4 years, over 20,000 items will be posted here from diaries, 
journals, letters, news articles, and other sources from or relating to the corresponding date 160 years earlier.
Only a portion of those posts will be shared on Facebook. Here is the complete list from February 5, 1861.
- “I think the Secession Movement has reached its climax and a re-action will now take place..,” – Horatio Nelson Taft
- Civil War Day-by-Day
- Arrangements for the Inauguration of Mr. Lincoln at Washington – New York Herald
The News – New York Herald- Our Pensacola Correspondence – New York Herald
- The Southern Forts – Charleston Mercury
- The Southern Congress and Free Trade – Charleston Mercury
- The Revolution – New York Herald
- The Carolina Light Infantry—Pleasing episode in camp life – Charleston Mercury
- Military – Charleston Mercury
- Operations in Charleston Harbor – War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
- “…having been advised of the seizure of the forts in Mobile Bay, I deemed it proper, having received no instructions from Washington, to endeavor to prevent, by all the means in my power, a like seizure here.”—Lt. A. J. Slemmer – War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
- A Diary of American Events – February 5, 1861 – The Rebellion Record – A Diary of American Events; by Frank Moore