{"id":104410,"date":"2021-04-17T00:00:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T05:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=104410"},"modified":"2021-04-11T09:44:07","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T14:44:07","slug":"civil-war-day-by-day-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/civil-war-day-by-day-79\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil War Day-By-Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>April 17, 1861<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The state of Virginia&#8217;s secession convention votes to secede from the United States, later becoming the eighth state to join the Confederate States of America.\n<ul>\n<li>Virgina <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virginia_Secession_Convention_of_1861\">Secession Convention<\/a> approves an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/virginia-ordinance-of-secession\/\">ordinance of secession<\/a> and calls for a popular vote to approve it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>A Chronological History of the Civil War in America<sup>1<\/sup><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The 6th Regiment Mass. State troops left Boston for Washington.<\/li>\n<li>Virginia State Convention passed an ordinance of secession (88 v. 55) to take effect if ratified by the people on the 4th May next.<\/li>\n<li>Gov. Letcher, of Virginia, recognized the Confederate States by proclamation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<ol>\n<li><em>A Chronological History of the Civil War in America <\/em>by Richard Swainson Fisher, New York, Johnson and Ward, 1863<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 17, 1861 The state of Virginia&#8217;s secession convention votes to secede from the United States, later becoming the eighth state to join the Confederate States of America. Virgina Secession Convention approves an ordinance of secession and calls for a popular vote to approve it. A Chronological History of the Civil War in America1 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":104430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-104410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-civil-war-day-by-day"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Virginia-Ordinance-of-Secession.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}