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| Saturday June 1, 1861 |
Minor Skirmishes occur in Virginia. The skirmishes are at Arlington
Mills and Fairfax Court House. Although minor affairs they cause
great attention to a nation that is not yet fully at war.
At Cairo, Ill a thirty two pound cannon ball is fired down the
Mississippi as the first of some of the defenses in the West are
put into place.
President Jefferson Davis in Richmond was serenaded and gave
a patriotic address in which he said" Upon us is devolved the high
and holy responsibility of preserving the constitutional liberty of
free government"
The British government declares their ports off-limits to prizes
from the belligerents.