ACWS - On This Day in the American Civil War 4th March

Abraham Lincoln is sworn in as the 16th President of the United States of America, at Washington, DC, in front of a crowd, with troops and sharpshooters positioned in case of a rumored assassination attempt.
President Abraham Lincoln's initial cabinet consisted of:
- Edward Bates - Attorney General, from MO
- Montgomery Blair - Postmaster General, from MD
- Simon Cameron - Secretary of War, from PA
- Salmon P. Chase - Secretary of Treasury, from OH
- William H. Seward - Secretary of State, from NY
- Caleb Blood Smith - Secretary of Interior, from IN
- Gideon Welles - Secretary of Navy, from CT

The following are appointed Confederate Brigadier Generals:
- Hamilton Prioleau Bee, CSA
- Thomas James Churchill, CSA
- Patrick Ronayne Cleburne, CSA
- Winfield Scott Featherston, CSA
- Samuel Bell Maxey, CSA
- Albert Rust, CSA
- William Booth Taliaferro, CSA
Andrew Johnson, USA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
Maj. Gen. Braxton Bragg, CSA, announces his resumption of the command of the Dept. of Alabama and West Florida.
Amelia Island, FL, is occupied by the Union forces.
Santa Fe, New Mexico Territory, is abandoned by the Union forces, under Capt. Herbert M. Enos, USA, and subsequently occupied by Brig. Gen. Henry Hopkins Sibley, CSA.
Federal scout through Laclede, Wright, and Douglas Counties, MO, including skirmishes at Fox Creek (Mar 7) and Mountain Grove (Mar 9), by Col. George E. Waring, Jr, 4th MO Cavalry. (Mar 4-11)
Maj. Gen. John Clifford Pemberton, CSA, assumes the command of Dept. of South Carolina, Georgia, and East Florida, replacing Gen. Robert E. Lee, CSA, who was ordered to Richmond, VA, the day before.

Robert Brank Vance, CSA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
Skirmish (Mar 4) near Franklin, TN, and engagement (Mar 5) at Thompson's Station, or Spring Hill, TN, where Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn, CSA, captures several Union regiments under the command of Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans, USA. (Mar 4-5)
Federal expedition from Murfreesborough toward Columbia, TN, with skirmishes:
- (Mar 4) at Rover and Unionville,
- (Mar 5) at Chapel Hill
- (Mar 9) at Thompson's Station and
- (Mar 10-11) at Rutherford Creek, TN.
  (Mar 4-14)
Skirmish at Independent Hill, Prince William County, which is 8 miles from Dumfries, VA.

Operations in Florida, as Maj. Gen. James Patton Anderson, CSA, assumes command of the District of Florida and reports the continuous landing of Federal troops while there is no let up in the number of Confederate troops in the district being drawn off for service in other parts of the Confederacy. (Mar 4-14)
Skirmish at Rodney, MS.
Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman's, USA, Federal column arrives at Vicksburg, MS, from its Meridian, MS, Expedition.
The US Senate confirms Andrew Johnson as the Military Governor of Tennessee.
Skirmish near Murfreesborough, TN.
Confederate demonstration on Portsmouth, VA, is repelled with the combined effort of Maj. Gen. David Birney, USA, Brig. Gen. Judson Kilpatrick's, USA, Cavalry, and Union gunboats. (Mar 4-5)

William Wirt Allen, C.S.A., is appointed Maj. Gen.
Young Marshall Moody, CSA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
Affair near Pine Bluff, AR, where the Yankees sneak up on the camp of a small band of Rebels in the dark and scatter the Confederates in all directions, as they are taken by surprise.
The US transport, Thorn, strikes a torpedo on the Cape Fear River and sinks near Fort Anderson, NC.
Skirmish at Phillips'Cross-Roads, NC.
Federal expedition from near Cheraw to Florence, SC, and skirmishes. (Mar 4-6)
Maj. Gen. Cadwallader C. Washburn, USA, assumes the command of the District of West Tennessee.
US Chief Justice, Salmon P. Chase swears in Abraham Lincoln for his 2nd term as President, Washington, DC.

On This Day information kindly provided by Martin Cross, 2nd U.S. Artillery, Bty B.