Transcript:
Annapolis Junction May 3rd 1861
The Bearer George Williams has my Authority to pass here on Trains to Washington and Return
By order of
Colonel C. Schwarzwalder
5 Regiment N.Y.S.M.
Adjutant
Paul Frank
Commd at Annapolis Junction
Citation: Pass for George Williams. Annapolis Junction, 3 May 1861. Ams 811/2.6
President Lincoln issues a call for 42,034 3 year volunteers. This contravenes the widespread belief that the war against the south will be short.
The military department of the Ohio is created to be commanded by Gen. George B. McClellan.
Confederate commissioners arrive in England seeding official recognition of the Southern Confederacy. They are received by Foreign Minister Lord John Russell.
Gen. Scott begins to implement a blockade of the South to “envelop the insurgent States and bring them to terms with less bloodshed than any other plan.” This is ridiculed in the press as the “Anaconda plan”, but as the blockade becomes evermore effective it will be instrumental in bringing the Confederacy to her knees.