Seven Southern states secede from Union. (Confederacy includes 15 states and territories by 1862.)
Day in the Life
Journal Entry
November 01, 1860 ~ Thursday
Nov 1st
We have had a snow storm during the past week & it is vary
cold & freezeing I got all my sugar cane, cut, striped, piled & cov[er]ed up
before the storm yet it froze considerable and was hard to press out
yet I got it finished Wednesday night 31 Soct it took 8 or 9 gallons
of Jucce to make one of molases while last year it ownly took 4 1/2
I made ownly 256 gallons from about 1 1/2 acres of cane I made
300 gallons for other people total 556 gallons I had one half of what
I made for other people. I had one acre of potatoes under the snow
and in the frost, and I spent the 1, 2, & 3 diging them & finished on
the 3rd we are having plesant weather since the storm still the
snow melts vary slowly