April 14, 1861
- During the formal surrender of Fort Sumter Private Daniel Hough dies when the cannon he was loading (for the Union’s 100-gun salute to the U.S. flag) discharges prematurely. He is the first man to die in the Civil War. A second man is mortally wounded.
- Major Anderson and his men left Fort Sumter and sailed for New York.1
- A Chronological History of the Civil War in America by Richard Swainson Fisher, New York, Johnson and Ward, 1863