Civil War Day-By-Day

April 16, 1861

• The Confederate Congress passes a Conscription Act.
• Gov. Magoffin, of Kentucky, and Gov. Letcher, of Virginia, refused to furnish troops under the President’s proclamation. Gov. Harris, of Tennessee, and Gov. Jackson, of Missouri, also refused¹
• Confederate States Government called for 32,600 additional troops.¹

1. A Chronological History of the Civil War in America by Richard Swainson Fisher, New York, Johnson and Ward, 1863