Civil War Timeline / Chronology for April 17

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Chronology for April 17
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April 17, 1850	Committee of Thirteen agree on the the border of Texas as part of the Compromise of 1850. It will later be revised	Texas
	Compromise of 1850
April 17, 1850	During the debate over the Compromise of 1850 in the U. S. Senate, Vice-president Millard Fillmore called Thomas Hart Benton out of order. The exchange became so heated that Benton was nearly shot by Compromise floor leader Henry Foote of Mississippi
	Compromise of 1850
	Millard Fillmore
April 17, 1861	Virgina Secession Convention approves the wording of a referendum of secession and calls for a popular vote to approve it.	Virginia
	Confederate Order of Secession
	Virginia Ordinance of Secession
	Virginia Secession Convention
April 17, 1861	Star of the West is taken by militia aboard the Confederate Army steamer General Rusk off the coast of Texas.	Texas
	Star of the West
April 17, 1863	Col. Benjamin Grierson [US] leaves La Grange, Tennessee at the head of a 1,700 man cavalry column heading towards Mississippi to raid the state.	Mississippi
April 17, 1863	Brigadier General John Marmaduke [CS] leaves Arkansas and enters Missouri on a raid	Missouri
April 17, 1864	Ulysses S. Grant ends prisoner exchanges with the South. He felt the practice was '...prolonging the conflict"
	Ulysses S. Grant
April 17, 1864	Bread riot in Savannah	Georgia

April 12, 1861 May 10, 1865	The American Civil War
	The Civil War