1/1/1862 - Confederate Emissaries to Britain and France are released from Ft. Warren, Mass.

1/1/1863 -Lincoln signs Emancipation Proclamation, AND Battle at Murfreesboro (Stones River)

1/2/1861 - Confederate forces in S. Carolina seize Ft. Johnson
1/2/1863 - Battle at Murfreesboro (Stones River)

1/3/1861 - Confederate forces in Savannah, Georgia, seize Ft. Pulaski
1/3/1863 - Gen. William Rosecrans (US) forces Confederate withdrawal from Murfreesboro

1/4/1861 - Confederate forces in Mt. Vernon, Alabama, seize the Federal Arsenal

​1/5/1861 - Confederate forces near Mobile, Alabama, seize Ft. Gaines and Ft. Morgan
1/5/1862 - Thomas J. Jackson captures Bath, orders the shelling of Hancock, Md., and the burning of                       bridges to the North and West

1/6/1861 - State forces Apalachicola, Florida, seize the arsenal
1/6/1862 - Union forces reinforced, Jackson withdraws from Hancock, Md.

1/7/1861 - State forces Apalachicola, Florida, go on to seize the Old Spanish Fort at St. Augustine,                            Florida, Thomas J. Jackson's forces, nearly frozen, reach Unger's Store, AND Union forces                      defeat the Confederates at Hanging Rock Pass

1/8/1821 - Gen. James Longstreet, CS, born

1/9/1861 - Confederates fire on, and the Star of The West, preventing it from bringing supplies to Fort                    Sumter, Mississippi secedes, AND N. Carolina forces in Wilmington seize Ft. Johnson

1/10/1861 - Florida secedes by a vote of 62 to 7, AND N. Carolina forces in Wilmington seize Ft.                                Caswell

1/11/1861 - Alabama secedes
1/11/1862 - Lincoln accepts Secretary of War Simon Cameron's resignation, naming him Minister to                          Russia

1/12/1863 - Confederate President Jefferson Davis announces that, in reaction to the Emancipation                          Proclamation, he would be forced to turn captured U.S. Officers over to State Authorities,                      for persecution as criminals engaged in exciting servile insurrection

1/13/1865 - Adm. Porter, US attacks Fort Fisher

1/14/1861 - Ft. Pike, La., is taken over by state troops

1/15/1862 - Edwin M. Stanton confirmed by Senate as U.S. Secretary of War
1/15/1865 - Union forces capture Fort Fisher, closing Wilmington, North Carolina, the last major                               Confederate port

1/16/1815 - Gen. Henry W. Halleck, US, born
1/16/1862 - Thomas J. Jackson must call off planned attack on Cumberland, Md. for lack of troops

1/17/1862 - Thomas J. Jackson must call off planned attack on Cumberland, Md. for lack of troops, for                      second time.

1/18/1862 - Battle at Mill Springs

1/19/1807 - Gen. Robert E. Lee, CS, born                                                                                                1/19/1861 - Georgia secedes by a vote of 208 to 89, one of those opposed to secession - Alexander H.                        Stephens, future Vice-President of the Confederacy                                                                  1/19/1862 - Battle at Mill Springs (OR Logan's Cross Roads, OR Fishing Creek, OR Somerset, OR                                Beech Grove)

1/21/1813 - Gen. John Fremont, US, born                                                                                                  1/21/1824 - Gen. Thomas J. Jackson, CS, born

1/24/1861 -Georgia seizes Federal arsenal at Augusta

1/26/1861 - Louisiana secedes
1/26/863 - Lincoln relieves Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside of duty, Hooker takes command of US forces

1/28/1825 - Gen. George Pickett, CS, born
1/28/1861 - Louisiana troops take Ft. Macomb, near New Orleans, U.S revenue cutter Robert                                      McClelland surrenders to Louisiana State authorities, AND U.S revenue cutter Lewis                              Cass surrenders in Mobile

1/31/1861 - The Federal Mint in New Orleans, U.S. revenue schooner Washington are seized by                                  Louisiana authorities

1/31/1862 - Edwin M. Stanton issues Orders No. 15 - Prisoners of war shall receive the same pay                               during imprisonment, as during normal active duty.

1/31/1865 - United States submits to the states the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery