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Engagement between USS Albatross and N.C. steamer Beaufort near Bodie Island.

Engagement between USS Monticello and Confederates at Kinnakeet.

Engagement between USS Monticello and masked Confederate battery near New Inlet (Outer Banks).

Expedition to destroy former light-ship of Wilmington.

Federal occupation of the Outer Banks begins. Colonel Rush Hawkins and the 9th New York Zouaves are the occupying force.

On March 22 and 23, delegates from twenty-five counties assembled in Goldsboro and organized the Southern Rights Party. They urged the legislature to reconvene and demanded that North Carolina join the Confederacy.

The General Assembly called for a vote on whether or not the state should hold a secession convention. The election, held on February 28, 1861, resulted in a rejection of secessionists in favor of unionists.

On January 29, 1861, the General Assembly voted to send delegates to the Peace Conference. The conference was to be held on February 4, 1861.

Governor Henry Toole Clark demanded that the Confederate government send a regiment of Confederate soldiers to Hyde County to suppress the "evil influences" of Unionism extending to the mainland from the Outer Banks. Major E. D. Hall and the 7th…

On April 15, 1861, Governor John W. Ellis ordered the seizure of Fort Macon.