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Pony Express begins between St Joseph Mo & Sacramento Calif. Navaho Indians attack Fort Defiance, AZ.

	12	Confederate forces bombard Fort Sumter, SC.
	13	Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces.
	17	Star of the West captured off the coast near Indianola by Texas volunteers under the command of Colonel Earl Van Dorn, CSA. Virginia secedes from the Union.
	19	US begins blockade of Texas ports.
	21	Colonel Earl Van Dorn assumes military command of Texas.

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Battle of Shiloh (Pittsburg Landing), TN.

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Battle of Mansfield, LA.

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General Robert E. Lee surrenders to Union Army in Appomattox. Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot by John Wilkes Booth on the 14th. John Wilkes Booth dies in Virginia after being shot by a Union soldier.