Civil War
    

On this Day

The Alabama state convention received Commissioner from South Carolina.

North Carolina Senate bill arming the State passed the North Carolina House: yeas 73, neas 26.

The Virginia state legislature passed anti-coercion resolution.

Jacob Thompson , Buchanan’s Secretary of the Interior, went to Raleigh, to persuade the North Carolina Legislature to vote for secession, November 18, 1860. He resigned January 8, 1861, after betraying the sailing of the “Star of the West” to reinforce Fort Sumter.

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