[Homer_J_Simpson]

The Impending War: The Steamship Baltic Sent to Provision Fort Sumpter – 2-3
The Pennsylvania Legislature – 3
Important from Charleston: Great Preparations for an Attack – 3
The Latest Dispatches – 3
Important from Montgomery – 3
The Warlike News South – 3-4
Military and Naval Affairs – 4
Important from Virginia: Progress of Events-Sentiment of the People-Prospects of Secession – 4-5
Editorial: The Prospect at Pensacola – 5-6
Editorial: Position of Virginia – 6
Captain Mercer – 6
Editorial: The South and its Foreign Relations – 6-7
Lack of Food in Mississippi – 7
A Small Price for a Small State – 7
Later from the Pacific: Arrival of the Overland Express – 7

[KC Burke]

David Detzer has a great series of books about this period. They start with his book “Allegiance: Fort Sumter, Charleston, and the Beginning of the Civil War.”

They follow ups with Dissonance: The Turbulent Days Between Fort Sumter and Bull Run and Donnybrook: The Battle of Bull Run, 1861.

I have read the first and have the others on my bucket list. I recommend Allegiance completely.

[M Kehoe]

The beginning of the carnage and destruction draws nigh.

5.56mm

[BroJoeK]

"Important from Virginia: Progress of Events-Sentiment of the People-Prospects of Secession – 4-5"

"INDEPENDENCE OF WESTERN VIRGINIA DECLARED!"

It was here announced at the Virginia secession convention that if Virginia declared secession from the Union, then western Virginia was seceded from Virginia.

Virginians were warned in advance.
They immediately sent Confederate troops under illustrious commanders like RE Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson to invade & suppress Union West Virginia militarily.
They failed.