April 3, 1861
- A “test vote” in the Virginia convention shows a 2-1 margin against secession
- (Union) Long cabinet meeting on the Fort Sumter business–great activity in the navy department.1
- Rebel battery on Morris Island, Charleston Harbor, fired into a schooner.1
- A Chronological History of the Civil War in America by Richard Swainson Fisher, New York, Johnson and Ward, 1863