Civil War Day-By-Day

April 27, 1861

• President Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus between Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia to give military authorities the necessary power to silence dissenters and rebels.
• Lincoln extends the blockade to include Virginia and North Carolina
• Virginia offers Richmond as the Confederate capital.

A Chronological History of the Civil War in America¹

• President’s proclamation ordering the ports of Virginia and North Carolina to be blockaded.

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