From the South Carolina Coast: Onslaught of the Rebel Rams at Charleston on the Blockaders– 2-4
The Official Reports: The Affair Off Charleston – 4-5
The Loss of the Isaac Smith: Report of Admiral Dupont – 5
News from New-Orleans: Important Military Movements Expected Soon – 5-6
From the Army of the Potomac: A Successful Reconnoissance on the Right Wing – 6
The War in Florida: Negro Troops Against the Rebels – 6-7
Important from Washington: Defeat of the Illinois and New-York Canal Bill – 7-8
Editorial: Our Work at Charleston – 8-9
Reorganization of the Army – 9
The Blacks in Battle – 9
Editorial: Another Napoleonic Idea – 9
Bureau of Navigation – 9
Charleston - when Abner Doubleday and his crew began the war by occupying the defenses, burning supplies and spiking the cannons, all the time while Southern representatives were meeting in Washington DC negotiating a peaceful turnover of the forts.
So, not only did Abner Doubleday invent baseball, he started the Civil War, even after Lincoln gave his word that the forts would be left alone until after the negotiations were finished