1861

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Births

• January 7 – Charles Henry Bliss
• May 19 – Richard Miles Cary, Jr.
• July 20 – William Kopman Hyer, Jr.
• July 26 – E. Dixie Beggs, Sr.

Events

• January 8 – Colonel William H. Chase is ordered by the Confederacy to seize the forts around Pensacola. First shots were fired at Fort Barrancas around 11:00 PM.
• July 26 – Confederate President Jefferson Davis appointed Thomas E. Jordan as postmaster of Pensacola and Chandler Cox Yonge as attorney for the Florida district of the Confederacy
• October 9 – Battle of Santa Rosa Island