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| Saturday March 16, 1861 |
In Montgomery the Confederate Congress adjourns. President
Davis appoints William Lowndes Yancey, Pierre A. Rost, and A
Dudley Mann as commissioners to the United Kingdom with the
aim of getting the United Kingdom recognize the Confederate
State of America as a nation. Major Robert Anderson at Fort
Sumter in Charleston Harbor is in daily communication with
Washington, DC. He is keeping them apprised of the situation in
the harbor.