What day of the week was April 15, 1861?

The day of the week April 15th, 1861 fell on was a Monday.

Bliss Carman the Canadian-American poet (d. 1929) was born on 15 April in 1861.

Sylvester Jordan the Austrian-German lawyer and politician (b. 1792) died on this day in 1861.

President Abraham Lincoln calls for 75 the000 Volunteers to quell the insurrection that soon became the American Civil War