| Y/M/D | Description | Place |
|---|---|---|
| 1860/01/20 | The Alabama Ordinance of Secession document is written at William Lowndes Yancey's Law Office. | William Lowndes Yancey Law Office, Montgomery, AL |
| 1860/12/17 | Under the chairmanship of D F Jamison, South Carolina's Ordinance of Secession passes on a vote of 169-0 to succeed from the United States. | First Baptist Church, Columbia, SC, Columbia, SC |
| 1860/12/26 | Major Robert Anderson orders his command of Federal troops to abandon Fort Moultrie and fall back to Fort Sumter. The brick fortress in the center of Charleston Harbor offers better defense and can be resupplied by ship. | Fort Moultrie, Sullivan's Island, SC |
| 1860/12/27 | CO Meade declines Confederate Gen James J Pettigrew's offer of parole and moves his garrison to Fort Sumter. | Castle Pinckney, Charleston, SC |
| 1860/12/30 | The Union's Charleston Arsenal falls to South Carolina militia. | Porter Military Academy, Charleston, SC |
| 1861/01/08 | Louisiana governor, Thomas Overton Moore, orders the Louisiana militia to seize the Federal arsenal at Baton Rouge, Fort Jackson, Fort St Philip, Fort Pike, the New Orleans Barracks and Fort Macomb. | Fort St Philip, Triumph |
| 1861/01/08 | Louisiana governor, Thomas Overton Moore, orders the Louisiana militia to seize the Federal arsenal at Baton Rouge, Fort Jackson, Fort St Philip, Fort Pike, the New Orleans Barracks and Fort Macomb. | Fort Macomb, New Orleans |
| 1861/01/08 | Louisiana governor, Thomas Overton Moore, orders the Louisiana militia to seize the Federal arsenal at Baton Rouge, Fort Jackson, Fort St Philip, Fort Pike, the New Orleans Barracks and Fort Macomb. | Fort Jackson, Triumph |
| 1861/01/08 | Louisiana governor, Thomas Overton Moore, orders the Louisiana militia to seize the Federal arsenal at Baton Rouge, Fort Jackson, Fort St Philip, Fort Pike, the New Orleans Barracks and Fort Macomb. | Jackson Barracks, New Orleans |
| 1861/01/08 | Louisiana governor, Thomas Overton Moore, orders the Louisiana militia to seize the Federal arsenal at Baton Rouge, Fort Jackson, Fort St Philip, Fort Pike, the New Orleans Barracks and Fort Macomb. | Fort Pike, New Orleans |
| 1861/01/09 | At sunrise, Confederate guns on Morris Island, crewed by cadets from the Citadel, fire the first shots of the American Civil War at the merchant relief ship, STAR OF THE WEST, as it approaches Fort Sumter. | Fort Sumter National Monument, Charleston, SC |
| 1861/01/09 | At sunrise, Confederate guns on Morris Island, crewed by cadets from the Citadel, fire the first shots of the American Civil War at the merchant relief ship, STAR OF THE WEST, as it approaches Fort Sumter. | Morris Island Lighthouse, Folly Beach |
| 1861/01/09 | At sunrise, Confederate guns on Morris Island, crewed by cadets from the Citadel, fire the first shots of the American Civil War at the merchant relief ship, STAR OF THE WEST, as it approaches Fort Sumter. | South Carolina State Arsenal, Charleston, SC |
| 1861/01/09 | As the STAR OF THE WEST turns in the channel, Confederate guns on Fort Moultrie fire on the relief ship. Of the seventeen shots fired by both rebel positions, two struck the hull of the STAR OF THE WEST, causing little damage. | Fort Moultrie, Sullivan's Island, SC |
| 1861/01/19 | Georgia's Secession Convention votes to seceded from the Union. The "Republic of Georgia" joined the Confederate States of America, to the accompaniment of wild celebration and bonfires on Milledgeville's Statehouse Square. | Old State Capitol, Milledgeville, Milledgeville |
| 1861/02/04 | More than 100 politicians from the southern United States meet in Washington to prevent slave states from seceding from the Union. | Willard Hotel, Washington, DC |
| 1861/02/13 | The Virginia Convention convenes at Mechanics Institute on 9th St at Bank St, Richmond. They will vote to leave the Union. Later it will house the Confederate War and Navy Departments with an office for R E Lee and then burn in the evacuation fire. | Richmond, Virginia |
| 1861/02/16 | Jefferson Davis arrives in Montgomery on Saturday, February 16, two days before his inauguration as president of the Confederacy. | Montgomery, AL, Alabama |
| 1861/04/11 | Confederate Secretary of War, Leroy Pope Walker, composes a telegram authorizing General P G T Beauregard to open fire on Fort Sumter. | First White House of the Confederacy, Montgomery, AL |
| 1861/04/11 | Leroy Pope Walker's telegram authorizing General P G T Beauregard to open fire on Fort Sumter is sent from the second floor offices of Southern Telegraph Company to Charleston, South Carolina. | Winter Building, Montgomery, AL |
| 1861/04/12 | Confederate artillery bombard Fort Sumter, April 12-14, 1861. | Fort Sumter National Monument, Charleston, SC |
| 1861/04/17 | 1861 Virginia Convention passes the Ordinance of Secession by a vote of 88 to 55, 32 NO votes are by trans-Allegheny (future West Virginia) delegates. | Virginia State Capitol, Richmond |
| 1861/04/18 | In the office, just inside the Blair House front door, Francis P Blair, acting on Lincoln's orders, offers Colonel of the 2nd Cavalry, Robert E Lee command of the Union Army. Lee declined. | Blair House, Washington, DC |
| 1861/04/27 | Virginia offers to join the Confederate States of America with Richmond as its capital. |
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