The Call to War – Today In Southern History
15 April 1861
On this date in 1861…
U.S. President Lincoln issued a public proclamation calling for seventy-five thousand volunteers to escalate the war he had started. This call was made without the consent of Congress, which was a breach of the Constitution. It signaled another act of aggression against the peaceful secession of the Confederate states.
Other Years:
1528 – Pánfilo de Narváez, a Spanish conquistador, arrived in Florida with 350 men and received a hostile reception from local Indians.
1715 – The Pocotaligo Massacre triggered the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.
1777 – Shawnee warriors attacked American settlers at Boonesborough, Kentucky, but the stockade resisted the Indian attack.
1861 – North Carolina state troops occupied Fort Macon.
1864 - Federal troops occupied Camden, Arkansas on the Red River campaign and were immediately besieged.
1865 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln died from wounds received from an assassin.
1879 – Victorio and 39 Warm Springs Apache followers who had surrendered escaped at Ojo Caliente, New Mexico due to fears of being sent to a reservation and returned to Mexico.
1889 – American painter and muralist, Thomas Hart Benton was born in Neosho, Missouri.
1947 - Jackie Robinson of Cairo, Georgia broke the MLB ‘color barrier’ with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1954 - KARK TV channel 4 in Little Rock, AR began broadcasting
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