Of course not. Well, their's nothing I like better than chasing down Southron fairy tales.
The significance of that date is that the Virginia secession vote was still two weeks away, so Virginia was still in the Union.
The other incident I was thinking of was the Rhoda Shannon incident on April 3 in Charleston harbor, which we've discussed in the past. You insisted iirc that the Confederates were trying to sink the Shannon, and the other side said no, no, those were only warning shots.
The only fairies are in your basement.