Rear Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont, commanding the compulsory Union South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, occupies Port Royal, South Carolina.

       [restored 2/8/2025]

Subsequent Events:

2/25/1862                   3/12/1862

Authority:

“Law of the Jungle”
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References:

Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 286.

Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 167.

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,214,325,271,235

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