{"id":105955,"date":"2021-05-13T00:00:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T05:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=105955"},"modified":"2021-05-05T14:09:48","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T19:09:48","slug":"civil-war-day-by-day-104","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/civil-war-day-by-day-104\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil War Day-By-Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>May 13, 1861<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>George McClellan [US] appointed Commander, Department of Ohio. The following day he is promoted major general, his rank in the Ohio militia. Only General-in-Chief Winfield Scott held a higher rank.<\/li>\n<li>Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom issues a &#8220;proclamation of neutrality&#8221; which recognizes the Confederacy as having belligerent rights.<\/li>\n<li>The First Wheeling Convention opens (West Virginia)<\/li>\n<li>U.S. troops occupy Baltimore, Maryland<\/li>\n<li>North Carolina elects delegates to the Secession Convention<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>A Chronological History of the Civil War in America<sup>1<\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anti-secession Convention of delegates from the counties of Western Virginia met at Wheeling\u201435 counties represented.<\/li>\n<li>Union troops under Gen. Butler took possession of Federal Hill, Baltimore. ( (During night of May 12\/13)<\/li>\n<li>Travel through Baltimore re-established.<\/li>\n<li>Blockade of the Mississippi at Cairo established.<\/li>\n<li>Queen Victoria issued a proclamation enjoining neutrality in the contest between the North and South.<\/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>May 13, 1861 George McClellan [US] appointed Commander, Department of Ohio. The following day he is promoted major general, his rank in the Ohio militia. Only General-in-Chief Winfield Scott held a higher rank. Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom issues a &#8220;proclamation of neutrality&#8221; which recognizes the Confederacy as having belligerent rights. The First Wheeling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":105074,"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-105955","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\/1861-flags.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105955","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=105955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}