{"id":11339,"date":"2021-04-03T01:00:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T06:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=169"},"modified":"2021-04-01T10:07:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T15:07:16","slug":"events-diary-april-3-1861","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/events-diary-april-3-1861\/","title":{"rendered":"Events Diary, April 3, 1861"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Despatches were received in Washington to-day, confirming the reported reinforcement of Fort Pickens; and the Cabinet held a long session, without coming to any definite conclusion in regard to the long-mooted evacuation of Fort Sumter. One company of artillery left Washington for Fort Hamilton, and two more are to follow to-morrow. Unwonted activity also prevails in the navy, several vessels being rapidly fitted for service.\u2013<em>World, April 4<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>The mortar batteries on Morris\u2019 Island, Charleston harbor, fired into an unknown schooner. She displayed the stars and stripes, and put to sea. A boat from Sumter with a white flag went out to her; nobody hurt. A shot had gone through her.\u2013(<em>Doc. 49<\/em>.)<\/li>\n<li>All officers of the Southern Confederate army, on leave of absence, were ordered to their respective commands.\u2013<em>Times, April 5<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>The South Carolina Convention ratified the Constitution of the Confederate States, by a vote of 114 to 16.\u2013<em>Tribune, April 6<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>The Charleston correspondent writes: \u201cBy the by, let us never surrender to the North the noble song, the \u2018Star-Spangled Banner.\u2019 It is southern in its origin; in sentiments, poetry and song; in its association with chivalrous deeds, it is ours; and the time, I trust, is not remote, when the broad stripes and brilliant stars of the confederate flag of the South will wave triumphantly over our capitol, Fortress Monroe, and every fort within our borders.\u201d\u2013<em>Richmond Examiner<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despatches were received in Washington to-day, confirming the reported reinforcement of Fort Pickens; and the Cabinet held a long session, without coming to any definite conclusion in regard to the long-mooted evacuation of Fort Sumter. One company of artillery left Washington for Fort Hamilton, and two more are to follow to-morrow. Unwonted activity also prevails [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":98716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-rebellion-record-by-frank-moore"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Rebellion-Record.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11339","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=11339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}