Place Unit Type
Region
Date Type
Australian ship sinks in a storm in the Pacific, survivors reached land three weeks later barely alive Crime/Disasters
In the far north Pacific, the last Confederate raider decimates the American whaling fleet in a single day Battles/Soldiers
Still fighting, the C.S.S. Shenandoah begins its campaign to destroy the American whaling fleet Battles/Soldiers
Name Type
Fiji Islands, Oceania State or Province
Sandwich Islands Region
Date Title
Washington (DC) National Era, "Slavery in Oregon," August 27, 1857
New York Times, “Boundaries of Oregon,” February 21, 1859
Charleston (SC) Mercury, “The Gold Regions of the West,” February 24, 1859
New Orleans (LA) Picayune, “Russia and America,” March 20, 1859
How to Cite This Page: "Pacific Ocean," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hddev.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/22538.