Exploring the most important 55 months in American history
Sterling Price sends another message to Jefferson Davis asking him to provide more support for their secessionist cause in Missouri.
News of the British reaction to the seizure of Confederate envoys James Mason and John Slidell reaches the U.S.
Henry H. Sibley’s Confederate Army of New Mexico reaches El Paso, Texas, where it is now poised to conquer the New Mexico Territory.
Robert H. Milroy’s Federal advance from Cheat Mountain leads to defeat in the last significant clash of the year in northwestern Virginia.
George B. McClellan rejects Abraham Lincoln’s proposal to send the Army of the Potomac into northern Virginia against Centreville and Manassas Junction.
The U.S. Senate approves a measure creating a joint House-Senate military oversight committee whose investigative methods quickly prove controversial.