APRIL 27TH, 1861: President Lincoln extended the blockade to ports of Virginia and North Carolina.
** Secretary of Navy Welles issued order for Union ships to seize Confederate privateers upon the high seas.
** Steamer Helmick, loaded with powder and munitions of war for the Confederacy, was seized at Cairo, Illinois.
The War Thickens. Old B-Runner
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