Civil War Timeline / Chronology for February 9

Civil War Timeline
Chronology for February 9
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February 9, 1823	Nicholas Biddle becomes president of the second Bank of the United States
February 9, 1825	U. S. House elects John Quincy Adams President of the United States
	Election of 1824
	John Quincy Adams
February 9, 1861	After privately considering William Yancey, Howell Cobb, Robert Toombs, Alexander Stephens, and Robert Barnwell Rhett for President of the Confederate States of America, the Convention settles on Jefferson Davis. They select Alexander Stephens, both pro-Union and a friend of Abraham Lincoln, as vice-president
	Jefferson Davis
	Alexander Stephens
	Convention of Seceding States
	Robert Barnwell Rhett
	Robert Toombs
February 9, 1861	In a blow to the newly formed Confederacy, Tennessee voters reject the call for a secessionist convention, 68,262 to 59,499.	Tennessee
February 9, 1862	Union Brigadier General Charles Stone arrested and taken to Fort Lafayette, New York and placed in solitary confinement. He was not told the reason for his confinement
February 9, 1864	109 Union officers led by Colonel Thomas Rose escape from Libby Prison on the banks of the James River in Richmond. 59 reach Union lines	Virginia
	Richmond, Virginia
February 9, 1864	Major General John Schofield [US] assumes command of the Department of the Ohio
February 9, 1870	The U. S. Weather Bureau is created as a direct result of the Civil War. Generals wanted accurate weather forecasts for battles. At first the Weather Bureau exists as part of the Signal Corps

June 15, 1864 April 2, 1865	Siege of Petersburg	Virginia
	Robert E. Lee
	P. G. T. Beauregard
	Army of Northern Virginia
	Ulysses S. Grant
	Siege of Petersburg
April 12, 1861 May 10, 1865	The American Civil War
	The Civil War
February 4, 1861 February 27, 1861	Washington Peace Conference (also called Convention or Congress)
	Felix Zollicoffer
	Salmon P. Chase
	John Tyler
	Washington Peace Convention