January 16th in Civil War History

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January 16, 1821 John Cabell Breckinridge born, near Lexington Kentucky


January 16, 1854 Kentucky Senator Dixon offers an amendment to the Kansas-Nebraska Act repealing the Missouri Compromise.

January 16, 1857 George McClellan resigns from the U. S. Army


January 16, 1861
January 19, 1861 Following two days of debate and a day of hammering out the wording of the secession document, Georgia votes to leave the Union on January 19. Georgia


January 16, 1861 The Crittenden Compromise dies on the floor of the Senate.
 
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