{"id":104455,"date":"2021-04-20T00:00:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T05:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=104455"},"modified":"2021-04-11T11:15:46","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T16:15:46","slug":"civil-war-day-by-day-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/civil-war-day-by-day-82\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil War Day-By-Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>April 20, 1861<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Robert E. Lee resigns his commission in the United States Army in order to command the forces of the state of Virginia.<\/li>\n<li>Guyandotte (city) calls for the state to approve the secession actions of the Virginia legislature.<\/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><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-104456 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/gosport.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"177\" \/>Great Union Mass Meeting in New York.<\/li>\n<li>Branch mint at Charlotte, N. C., seized by the rebels.<\/li>\n<li>Bridges on the Northern Central Railroad and other railroads (in Maryland) burned.<\/li>\n<li>Arsenal at Liberty, Mo., seized by rebels.<\/li>\n<li>Gosport (Va.) Navy Yard partially destroyed to keep it from the rebels. Property valued at $25,000,000 lost. Eleven U. S. vessels, 21,398 tons, and carrying 602 guns, scuttled. The \u201cCumberland\u201d was towed out.<\/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 20, 1861 Robert E. Lee resigns his commission in the United States Army in order to command the forces of the state of Virginia. Guyandotte (city) calls for the state to approve the secession actions of the Virginia legislature. A Chronological History of the Civil War in America1 Great Union Mass Meeting in New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"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-104455","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-civil-war-day-by-day"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104455","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=104455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}