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| Tuesday May 21, 1861 |
President Lincoln attends the funeral services at Navy Yard for
Col. Abram S. Vosburgh, 71st New York Regiment. The cabinet
rides with the President in funeral procession to railway station at
2:30 P.M.
The G. S. Humphrey and Co., importers, 524 Broadway, New
York, submits bill for $116.50 for carpetings purchased by Mrs.
Lincoln. North Carolina becomes the 10th state to secede, the
state has already been admitted into the Confederacy. Richmond,
Va. is designated the new Confederate capitol by the Confederate
Congress. The State of Missouri declares it's neutrality in the war.