Portal:American Civil War/This week in American Civil War history/6

February 1
1861 - Austin - Texas passed an ordinance of secession from the United States, subject to public vote on set for February 23

1862 - Boston - Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic" was published for the first time in the Atlantic Monthly

February 2
1864 - Chattanooga - 129 Confederate deserters take loyalty oath to the United States

1865 - Rhode Island, Michigan - ratification of the 13th Amendment by respective state governments

February 3
1862 - Washington, D.C. - The offer of war elephants from the King of Siam declined by Abraham Lincoln

1863 - Dover

1864 - Vicksburg - William Tecumseh Sherman leaves to assault Meridian, Mississippi

1865 - Fort Monroe - Hampton Roads Conference is held

1865 - Rivers' Bridge

February 4
1861 - Montgomery - Representatives of the states of South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana met and formed the Confederate States of America

1862 - Fort Henry - landing of Union troops nearby

February 6
1833 - Patrick County, Virginia - James Ewell Brown Stuart, later known as the Confederate cavalry commander "Jeb" Stuart, was born at Laurel Hill Farm in southern Virginia close to the North Carolina border

1862 - Fort Henry - Naval bombardment and rising Tennessee River waters forced Lloyd Tilghman to surrender his poorly-sited fortification to little-known Union Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant before any infantry engagement

1864 - Morton's Ford - Crossings by Union troops at several points along the Rappahannock River in Orange and Culpeper Counties, Virginia stalled after defense by Richard S. Ewell's corps

1865 - Hatcher's Run - After a bold dash across Boydton Plank Road undertaken to destroy Confederate supply wagons in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, Union II Corps and V Corps found themselves pushed back by rebels under John B. Gordon