May 16, 1861

Tennessee was officially admitted to the Confederacy by Congress at Montgomery. A Kentucky legislative committee on Federal relations proposed that the state remain neutral. Commander John Rodgers Meig was ordered to set up Federal naval command on the rivers of the West under General Fremont’s command.

General Butler arrived in Washington DC by special train and spent the evening in consultation with President Lincoln, General Scott, Postmaster General Blair, and Secretary of War Cameron. A group of Alexandria citizens visited the President and assures him town would vote one thousand majority against secession.

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