A no-frills day-by-day account of what was happening 150 years ago, this blog is intended to be a way that we can experience or remember the Civil War with more immediacy, in addition to understanding the flow of time as we live in it.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Dec. 4, 1861
Dec. 4, 1861: Queen Victoria pronounces a trade embargo upon the United States, as a diplomatic measure to persuade the U.S. to release the captured Confederate envoys Mason and Slidell.
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