April 17, 1861 - Virginia secedes from the Union. Followed within five weeks by North Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas, thus forming an eleven state Confederacy.
April 27, 1861 - The president authorizes the suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus.
June 3, 1861 - Political rival Stephen A. Douglas dies unexpectedly of acute rheumatism.
July 21, 1861 - The Union suffers a defeat at
Bull Run in northern Virginia. Union troops fall back to Washington. The president realizes the war will be long.
July 27, 1861 - Appoints
George B. McClellan as commander of the Department of the Potomac.
"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves."
Leon Trotsky
PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA
In 1912, Roosevelt took a drink of coffee and exclaimed, "That coffee tastes good, even to the last drop!" Maxwell House got their motto from this.
James ordered a fishing rod, priced at $3.56. Unfortunately, James is an Eskimo who lives in a very remote part of Greenland and the import rules there forbid any package longer than 4 feet to be imported. The fishing rod was 4 feet and 1 inch, just a little too long, so how can the fishing rod be mailed to James without breaking the rules? Ideally James would like the fishing rod to arrive in one piece!
Never wrestle with a pig. You’ll both get dirty, and the pig likes it.
I can teach my cat any trick he wants to do!
My goal in life is to be the kind of person my dog thinks I am.
Eat a live toad in the morning, and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
Every day, the hummingbird eats its own weight in food. You may wonder how it weighs the food. It doesn't. It just eats another hummingbird.
Gifts burst rocks.
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"Without doubt human beings are the most interesting study in the world."
