In April 1861, early in the American Civil War, Corbett enlisted as a private in Company I of the 12 Regiment New York Militia.

Most famously, he is the subject of the Boy Carrying a Sword of 1861 ( Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ).

Sir Charles FitzRoy ( Governor of New South Wales from 1846 – 1855 ) and Sir William Denison ( Governor of New South Wales from 1855 – 1861 ) also carried the additional title of Governor-General because their jurisdiction extended to other colonies in Australia.

Between 1850 and 1861, the Governor of New South Wales was titled Governor-General in an early attempt at federalism imposed by Earl Grey.

Between 1850 and 1861, the Governor of New South Wales was titled Governor-General of New South Wales, in an attempt to form a federal structure.

" Boston Museum playbill advertising Booth in Romeo and Juliet, May 3, 1864 When the Civil War began on April 12, 1861, Booth was starring in Albany, New York.

When the American Civil War began in April 1861, Kit Carson resigned his post as federal Indian agent for northern New Mexico.

The first anarchist journal to use the term " libertarian " was La Libertaire, Journal du Mouvement Social and it was published in New York City between 1858 and 1861 by French anarcho-communist Joseph Déjacque.

by J. F. Condon, continued to 1861, New Orleans, 1882 ) is the first scholarly treatment of the subject, along with François Barbé-Marbois ' Histoire de la Louisiane et de la cession de colonie par la France aux Etats-Unis ( Paris, 1829 ; in English, Philadelphia, 1830 ).

* 1861 – The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales, Australia.

* 1861 – The First Taranaki War ends in New Zealand.

* USS New England ( 1861 ), a whaler purchased in 1861 and sunk as an obstruction as part of the " Stone Fleet " in 1862

In 1861 the Confederacy claimed the southern tract as its own Arizona Territory and waged the ambitious New Mexico Campaign in an attempt to control the American Southwest and open up access to Union California.

South Australia granted restricted women's suffrage in 1861, and in 1895 became the second place in the world to grant universal suffrage ( after New Zealand ), and the first where women had the dual rights to vote and to stand for election.

George Herbert Putnam was born in New York City – “ at 107 East Seventeenth Street ” -- on September 21, 1861, and was the sixth son and tenth child of Victorine and George Palmer Putnam.

Other travels took him southwest to Philadelphia and New York City in 1854, and west across the Great Lakes region in 1861, visiting Niagara Falls, Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Mackinac Island.

Frelinghuysen was a delegate to the 1860 Republican National Convention from New Jersey and from 1861 to 1867 was Attorney General of New Jersey.

He was a delegate to the Peace conference of 1861 in Washington, and in 1866 was appointed by the Governor of New Jersey, as a Republican, to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate.

* Woodworth, Steven E., Nothing but Victory: The Army of the Tennessee, 1861 – 1865, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.

* William A. Walker ( 1805 – 1861 ), U. S. Representative from New York

The 11th New York was initially led by Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth, until his death in 1861.

The 11th New York was badly mauled during the First Battle of Bull Run in July 1861 as it acted as the rear guard for the retreating Army of the Potomac.

She is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery, in Brooklyn, New York where her tombstone states: " Mrs. Eliza Gilbert / Died Jan. 17, 1861 ".

* Mitchell Sanford ( 1799 – 1861 ), New York politician

He was appointed to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, and he served in the U. S. Army for 20 years before the American Civil War broke out in 1861.

In 1861 at the request of W. H. Hait, and with the approval of the people the town was platted and called Milton after the town of Milton, New York which was Hait's origin.

In 1861, Indian Lake was expanded using territory from Gilman and Lake Pleasant, New York.

" ( New York Times, February 14, 1861, pg.

During the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), York became the largest Northern town to be occupied by the Confederate army when the division of Major General Jubal Anderson Early spent June 28 – 30, 1863, in and around the town while the brigade of John B. Gordon marched to the Susquehanna River at Wrightsville and back.

When the Richmond and York River Railroad was built and completed in 1861 to the port community, just before the onset of the American Civil War, the city took back its former name of " West Point ".

He unsuccessfully contested York in 1859, but was elected for Southwark in 1860, and from 1861 to 1866 was Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs in the successive administrations of Lord Palmerston and Lord John Russell.

The rest of the Supreme Court had nothing to do with Merryman, and the other two justices from the South, John Catron and James Moore Wayne, acted as Unionists ; for instance, Catron's charge to a Saint Louis grand jury, saying that armed resistance to the federal government was treason, was quoted in the New York Tribune of July 14, 1861.

The York Diocesan Church Building Society, founded in 1861, contributed to the building of the church in Clifton between 1867 and 1869.

According to " The Emergence of Advertising in America " by the year 1861 there were twenty advertising agencies in New York City, and in 1911, the New York City Association of Advertising Agencies was founded, predating the establishment of the American Association of Advertising Agencies by several years.

This opera was first seen in New York its US premiere on 11 February 1861 and in the UK on 15 June of that year.

Atchison actively recruited State Guardsmen in northern Missouri and served with Missouri State Guard commander General Sterling Price in the summer campaign of 1861.

In September 1861, Atchison led 3, 500 State Guard recruits across the Missouri River to reinforce Price, and defeated Union troops that tried to block his force in the Battle of Liberty.

Jefferson Davis is sworn in as President of the Confederate States of America on February 18, 1861, on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol.

Robert Hunter of Virginia replaced Toombs as Secretary of State on July 25, 1861.

*** State of Kansas, 1861

* 1852 – The State of Buenos Aires secedes from the Argentine Federal government, rejoining on 17 September 17, 1861.

He married Lucretia Rudolph in 1858, and in 1860 was admitted to practice law while serving as an Ohio State Senator ( 1859 – 1861 ).

In January 1861, as more Southern states were seceding from the Union, Sherman was required to accept receipt of arms surrendered to the State Militia by the U. S. Arsenal at Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

In 1861, Salem was chosen as the permanent site of the Oregon State Fair by the Oregon State Agricultural Association.

He was ordained a Baptist minister in Ann Arbor in 1861, and later earned a Ph. D. from State University in Louisville, Kentucky.

*** State of Kansas, 1861

The Papal State ( s ), the State ( s ) of the Church, the Pontifical States, the Ecclesiastical States, or the Roman States (, also Stato della Chiesa, Stati della Chiesa, Stati Pontifici, and Stato Ecclesiastico ;, also Dicio Pontificia ) were among the major historical states of Italy from roughly the 6th century until the Italian peninsula was unified in 1861 by the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia ( after which the Papal States, in less territorially extensive form, continued to exist until 1870 ).

To avert this calamity, I shall make no endeavor to maintain my authority as Chief Executive of this State, except by the peaceful exercise of my functions ... " He was evicted from his office on March 16, 1861, for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy, writing,

In 1861, it was used as a parade ring for the first State Fair held on the Rinearson property, with the Pow-Wow Tree marking the entrance.

* William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State, 1861 – 1869

Abraham Lincoln appointed Seward his Secretary of State in 1861.

Thus an act to establish the County of Bland passed the General Assembly of the State of Virginia on March 30, 1861.

In 1861 the county assembly officially enacted a resolution seceding from the state of Tennessee ( and thus the Confederacy ), forming the " Free and Independent State of Scott ," ( also known simply as the " State of Scott "), an anti-slavery and somewhat pro-Union enclave community.

In July 1861, the Second Infantry Regiment of McBride's Seventh Division, Missouri State Guard was formed.

In August of 1861, 1, 500 soldiers from Andrew County and other counties joined the pro-Southern Missouri State Guard at Camp Highly in eastern Andrew County while others joined a large Union cap in adjacent Gentry County.