Civil War Timeline / Chronology for October 1

Civil War Timeline
Chronology for October 1
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October 1, 1800	Napoleon Bonaparte signs the Treaty of San Ildefonso with Spain, transfering most of what is known today as the Louisiana Purchase from Spain to France.
	Louisiana Purchase
October 1, 1849	The Mississippi Convention resolves that slave states should send representation to Nashville to determine a response to northern pressure to abolish slavery	Mississippi
	Nashville Convention of 1850
October 1, 1851	An angry mob takes William Henry, an escaped slave, from the jail in Syracuse and helps him flee to Canada	New York
October 1, 1862	David Dixon Porter is given command of the Mississippi Squadron
	David Porter
October 1, 1862	Major General John Pemberton replaces Earl van Dorn at the head of the reorganized Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana	Mississippi Louisiana
October 1, 1862	Abraham Lincoln visits Harper's Ferry on his way to Antietam	Virginia West Virginia
	Abraham Lincoln