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Post by lordroel on Jun 18, 2023 7:12:29 GMT
Day 68 of the United States Civil War, June 18th 1861VirginiaConfederate States Navy, Lieutenant Robert Randolph Carter commanding the tender CSS TEASER, was ordered to support the batteries at Jamestown Island for the defence of the James River, and to scout for intelligence about United States movements on either side of the river. The relocation of ordnance equipment from the Harper’s Ferry Arsenal to the Richmond Arsenal in Virginia was completed and the manufacture of arms began. Confederates from Romney destroyed the railroad bridge at New Creek. North Carolina The relocation of ordnance equipment from the Harper’s Ferry Arsenal to the Fayetteville Arsenal in North Carolina was completed and the manufacture of arms began. South Carolina The steamer USS UNION under the command of United States Navy,, Commander J R Goldsborough, captured the Confederate blockade-runner AMELIA at Charleston with a cargo of contraband from Liverpool. MarylandUnited States troops crossed the Potomac into Virginia from Hagerstown to Williamsport. Skirmishes at Edwards Ferry and Goose Creek. Incident at Camp Cole. MissouriThirty-five Confederates were captured at Liberty by United States Army soldiers sent from Kansas City. MassachusettsThe three-masted steam screw frigate, USS COLORADO, recommissioned on June 3rd 1861 arrived Boston to join the United States Navy's Gulf Blockading Squadron. She was under the task force commander, United States Navy Commodore William Marvine, acting as his flagship for the Blockade. Harper's Weekly: Crew of the United States steam-sloop "COLORADO," shipped at Boston, June, 1861
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Post by lordroel on Jun 19, 2023 2:53:12 GMT
Day 69 of the United States Civil War, June 19th 1861
Virginia
Pro-United States loyalists of Virginia met in Wheeling to elect Francis Henry Pierpont as the Provisional Governor of the putative new state of West Virginia. In the interim, the loyalists named the new entity the “Restored Government of Virginia”. It was also described as the “Loyal Government of Western Virginia”.
(Missouri) Operations to Control Missouri - Battle of Cole Camp
Pro-Confederate forces made a surprise attack on pro-United States troops at Cole Camp. Despite advanced warnings, the United States pickets at Cole Camp were overrun before they could alert the Pro-United States Missouri Home Guard. United States casualties were heavy with at least 34 killed or mortally wounded, 60 wounded, and 25 made prisoner.
Louisiana
The gunboat USS MASSACHUSETTS under the command of United States Navy, Commander Melancton Smith, captured the blockade-running brig NAHUM STETSON off Pass a l’Outre outside the Mississippi River.
North Carolina
The war has theological implications. For example, at Salem, North Carolina the Moravian Provincial Council states, "Since...the state of North Carolina has severed its relations with the government of the United States and has joined...the Confederate States, the P. A. C. holds this to be the time so to amend the prayers in the church litany which refer to the government of our country, and also the prayer in times of war, that they would be consistent with our circumstances."
New York
HENRIETTA, a 170-ton schooner which belonged to the New York Yacht Club, is commission into United States Revenue Cutter Service service and to be equipped as all other revenue cutters. . The ship will be commanded by her owner, third lieutenant in the Revenue Marine Service (equivalent to an ensign in the United States Navy) James Gordon Bennett.
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Post by lordroel on Jun 20, 2023 2:49:07 GMT
Day 70 of the United States Civil War, June 20th 1861
District of Columbia
Cornelius Vanderbilt offered the steamships of the Atlantic & Pacific Steamship Company for government service.
Virginia
Confederate States Army, Brigadier General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard issued General Orders, No. 20 referring, for the first time, to the troops under his command as the Army of the Potomac:
General Orders, No. 20.
Hdqrs. Army of the Potomac
Manassas Junction, Va., June 20, 1861
The following is announced as the organization of the First Corps of the Army of the Potomac, which, for convenience, will be the designation of the troops of this command:
I. The First Brigade will consist of Gregg’s Bacon’s Kershaw’s and Cash’s regiments, South Carolina volunteers, Brig. Gen. M. L. Bonham commanding.
II. The Second Brigade, commanded by Brig. Gen. R. S. Ewell, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, will be formed by Seibel’s and Rode’s regiments of Alabama volunteers, and Seymour’s regiment of Louisiana volunteers.
III. The Third Brigade will consist of Jenkin’s regiment of South Carolina volunteers, and Featherstone’s and Burt’s regiments of Mississippi volunteers, Brig. Gen. D. R. Jones, Provisional Army, Confederate States, commanding.
IV. The Fourth Brigade, Col. G. H. Terrett, Provisional Army of Virginia, commanding, will be formed of Moore’s, Garland’s, and Corse’s regiments of Virginia volunteers.
V. The Fifth Brigade will consist of Cocke’s Preston’s, and Withers’ regiments of Virginia volunteers, Col. P. St. George Cocke, Virginia volunteers, commanding.
VI. The Sixth Brigade, Col. J. A. Early, commanding, will be formed of Early’s and Kemper’s Virginia volunteers, and Sloan’s regiment of South Carolina volunteers.
VII. The several commanders of brigades thus announced will organize their general and personal staff, as far as practicable, without delay, and will make the necessary returns and reports direct to these headquarters.
VIII. In the absence of any of the special brigade commanders, the senior colonel present will assume command of the brigade.
By order of Brigadier-General Beauregard:
Thomas Jordan,
Acting Assistant Adjutant-General
Maryland
The Maryland House of Delegates adopted resolutions unqualifiedly protesting against the arrest of Ross Winans and other citizens of Maryland as an “oppressive and tyrannical assertion and exercise of military jurisdiction within the limits of Maryland, over the persons and property of her citizens, by the Government of the United States.”
Ohio
Governor of Ohio William Dennison had opened Camp Jackson, four miles west of Columbus, for the instruction of volunteer recruits. On this date, it was renamed Camp Chase in honour of (United States) Secretary of the Treasury Samuel Portland Chase. It was used for the training, mustering in and mustering out, and for the detention of United States soldiers awaiting exchange.
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Post by lordroel on Jun 21, 2023 2:49:49 GMT
Day 71 of the United States Civil War, June 21st 1861North CarolinaNorth Carolina Secession Convention votes to unfurl a new flag, a blue field with red and white bars with an insignia and two dates: May 20th, 1775 (Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence) and May 20th, 1861. Flag: Flag of North Carolina adopted on June 21, 1861, immediately following the state's declared secession from the Union on May 20, 1861 Ohio In a speech in Cincinnati, (Vice President of the United States) Andrew Johnson reaffirms his loyalty to the United States: “I characterize session as an odious doctrine, a heresy, a political absurdity.... Where it is admitted, no government, political, moral, or religious, can stand. It is disintegrating in its nature, and a kind of universal solvent..”
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Post by lordroel on Jun 22, 2023 2:56:04 GMT
Day 72 of the United States Civil War, June 22nd 1861
Virginia
(Confederate States) president Jefferson Finis Davis wrote to Confederate States Army, Brigadier General Thomas J. Jackson: “If the enemy has withdrawn from your front to attack on the east side of the Blue Ridge, it may be that an attempt will be made to advance from Leesburg to seize the Manassas Gap Railroad and to turn Beauregard’s position. In that event, if your scouts give you accurate and timely information, an opportunity will be offered you by the roads through the mountain passes to make a flank attack in conjunction with Beauregard’s column."
Florida
United States Army Colonel Harvey Brown, 5th Regiment of Artillery (United States), commanding at Fort Pickens, reports that he will not return any fugitive slaves to their masters unless he is ordered to do so.
Tennessee
Pro-United States men meet in Greeneville, to pledge allegiance to the United States.
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Post by lordroel on Jun 23, 2023 7:51:42 GMT
Day 73 of the United States Civil War, June 23rd 1861
Virginia
The Confederate States Navy began the reconstruction of the salvaged USS MERRIMACK into an ironclad, since she was the only large ship with intact engines available in the Chesapeake Bay area.
Professor Thaddeus Lowe made experimental ascents with his observation balloon at Falls Church.
United States Army, Major General George Brinton McClellan set up his headquarters at Grafton. He had collected around 20,000 men, of whom about 5,000 were scattered in detachments along 200 miles of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. His Army of Occupation counted 16 Ohio regiments, 9 from Indiana, and two recruited in western Virginia. They were supported by four batteries of artillery, two troops of cavalry, and a company of riflemen. Indiana state militia, Brigadier General Thomas Armstrong Morris led the militia stationed along the railroad while the mobile forces were organised into three brigades under Brigadier-General William Starke Rosecrans, Ohio State Brigadier General Newton Schleich, and Colonel Robert Latimer McCook.
Confederate raiders under the command of Brigadier General in the Confederate States Army Thomas J. Jackson destroys 42 engines and nearly 400 cars of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Martinsburg, Virginia.
Louisiana
The gunboat USS MASSACHUSETTS under the command of United States Navy, Commander Melancton Smith, captured the Mexican schooner BRILLIANT, with a cargo of flour, and the Confederate schooners TROIS FRERES, OLIVE BRANCH, FANNY and BASILE in the Gulf of Mexico.
Missouri
Thirty-five Confederates were captured at Liberty by United States Army soldiers on patrol from Kansas City.
United States Army, Colonel Franz Sigel moved his force overland from the railroad at Rolla and arrived in Springfield. He prepared to march onwards to Carthage, hoping to catch up with the retreating Missouri State Guard.
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Post by lordroel on Jun 24, 2023 6:04:19 GMT
Day 74 of the United States Civil War, June 24th 1861
Virginia
A major fire occurred in Richmond.
The United States armed steamer MONTICELLO was fired on by Confederates at Carter’s Creek, on the Rappahannock River twelve miles below Urbanna.
The sloop-of-war USS PAWNEE under the command of United States Navy, Commander Rowan and the gunboat USS THOMAS FREEBORN under the command of United States Navy, Commander Ward, shelled Confederate batteries at Mathias Point.
Maryland
United States Army, Major General Nathaniel Prentiss Banks was directed to take “quietly” into custody the Police Commissioners of Baltimore.
Tennessee
Governor of Tennessee, Isham G Harris declared Tennessee to have left the United States. A popular vote numbered 104,913 in favour of secession and 47,238 against.
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Post by lordroel on Jun 25, 2023 7:38:14 GMT
Day 75 of the United States Civil War, June 25th 1861
Virginia
Leonidas Polk is appointed Major General in the Confederate States Army.
The Virginia popular vote for secession was announced as 128,884 in favour and 32,124 against secession.
Mathias Point, Potomac River, is attacked by United States gunboats.
Louisiana
(United States) Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles received a report that the Confederates were constructing a submarine vessel to destroy the wooden screw sloop USS BROOKLYN, or any vessel blockading the mouth of the Mississippi River. The projectile with a sharp iron or steel pointed prow would attempt to perforate the bottom of the vessel and then explode.
New York
The USS ALBATROSS, a screw steamer rigged as a three-masted schooner under the command of United States Navy, Commander George A. Prentiss is commissioned into service with the United States Navy.
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Post by lordroel on Jun 26, 2023 2:49:16 GMT
Day 76 of the United States Civil War, June 26th 1861
Virginia
United States Army, Colonel Lewis Wallace’s 11th Indiana Infantry Regiment (United States) skirmished with enemy scouts at Frankfort and Kelley’s Island on Patterson’s Creek.
The wooden steam frigate USS MINNESOTA under the command of United States Navy, Captain Silas Horton Stringham, captured the bark SALLY MAGEE off Hampton Roads.
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Post by lordroel on Jun 27, 2023 2:49:50 GMT
Day 77 of the United States Civil War, June 27th 1861District of ColumbiaUnited States numbers defending the United States capital of Washington, D.C. now number close to 40,000 men. The United States Blockade Strategy Board met to consider and report on the problems arising in the blockade and to plan new amphibious operations to seize vital bases on the Southern coast. The recommendations made by the Blockade Strategy Board pointed the way to subsequent naval operations at Hatteras Inlet, Port Royal, and New Orleans. The broad policies the Board that were agreed at this early date were followed closely throughout the duration of the war. The Board’s Chairman was United States Navy Captain Samuel Francis Du Pont. It included as members United States Navy, Commander Charles Henry Davis, United States Army, Major John Gross Barnard (US Army Engineers) and United States Coast Survey, Superintendent Professor Alexander D Bache. VirginiaUnited States Army, Major General George Brinton McClellan left Clarksburg to move south against the Confederates around Rich Mountain. Indiana state militia, Brigadier-General Thomas Armstrong Morris moved his brigade forward from Philippi, with the aim of joining forces with McClellan in about two weeks’ time. The steamer USS RESOLUTE under the command of Acting Master W Budd, burned a Confederate supply depot on the shore of the Potomac River. (Virginia) Blockade of the Chesapeake Bay - Battle of Mathias PointUnited States Navy gunboat USS THOMAS FREEBORN under the command of United States Navy, Commander James Harmon Ward (commander of the United States Navy Potomac Flotilla) and and the gunboat USS RELIANCE under the command of United States Navy, Lieutenant James C Chaplin tried to prevent the Confederates from installing a battery on the Potomac at Mathias Point in King George County, Virginia. A landing party prepared to install their own battery, but were beaten back before they could unload their guns from the USS THOMAS FREEBORN. Cannon fire from this vessel kept the Confederates temporarily at bay, and United States Navy, Commander James Harmon Ward James H. Ward ordered another landing. This was also repulsed, and Ward was killed, becoming the first United States Navy officer to be killed in the war. MarylandGeorge P Kane, city marshal of Baltimore, was arrested for pro-Confederate activities. Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper: Arrest of Marshal Kane, at his house in Baltimore, at three o'clock A.M. on Thursday, June 27, by order of Major-General Banks on a charge of treason / from a sketch by our special artist accompanying General Banks' command The Confederate capture of the side-wheeler, ST. NICOLAS, near Baltimore, led by Confederate States Navy, Captain George N. Holllins. TennesseeThe pro-United States Convention in of East Tennessee met at Nashville. The Memphis Avalanche reports that $2,000,000 has been offered by European buyers as an advance on the cotton crop, and that France and England will soon recognize the Confederacy. PennsylvaniaUSS TUSCARORA, a MOHICAN-class sloop of war is laid down at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by Merrick & Sons, the TUSCARORA is the the first of the six new vessels the Congress authorized at the opening of the war. United KingdomBritish fears for Canada as the United States Civil War expanded prompted the government to hire the giant liner Great Eastern as a troop transport. She sailed from Liverpool, with almost 3300 aboard including 2,600 troops, 350 wives and children, and 122 horses. She arrived in Canada without incident.
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Post by lordroel on Jun 28, 2023 2:52:21 GMT
Day 78 of the United States Civil War, June 28th 1861
Virginia
A skirmish at Shorter’s Hill resulted in one United States soldier killed and one wounded, and two Confederates killed.
A reporter from the Richmond Whig writes from Manassas Junction: “I should not be surprised at any moment if this place were attacked, and yet I should not wonder if it were a month before a battle takes place in this region. It will be upon this spot, I think, and I tell you it will be a desperate one.”
California
The Central Pacific Railway Company was incorporated at Sacramento for the purpose of building a transcontinental rail line.
Maryland
The side-wheel steamer ST NICHOLAS, making a scheduled run between Baltimore and Georgetown, D.C., was captured by Confederates who had boarded her posing as passengers at the steamer’s various stopping points along the Potomac River. The Confederates were led by Confederate States Navy, Captain George Nichols Hollins who took command of the vessel and began to search for his target – the sloop-of-war USS PAWNEE.
South Carolina
The JEFFERSON DAVIS, a 187-ton brig, becomes the second Confederate privateer to put out to sea from Charleston and was commanded by Louis M Coxetter.
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Post by lordroel on Jun 29, 2023 2:49:12 GMT
Day 79 of the United States Civil War, June 29th 1861West VirginiaIncident at Bowman’s Place. Harpers Weeksly: Shot and shell piled under the walls of Fortress Monroe, June 29, 1861  MarylandFailing in his plan to search for the sloop-of-war USS PAWNEE, the Confederate raiders led by Confederate States Navy, Captain George Nichols Hollins aboard the captured side-wheel steamer ST NICHOLAS headed into the Chesapeake Bay. The raiders seized the schooners MARGARET and MARY PIERCE and the brig MONTICELLO. TennesseeThe Tennessee state legislature authorized the Governor to accept free male black men between the ages of fifteen and fifty for unarmed military service.
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Post by lordroel on Jun 30, 2023 7:38:04 GMT
Day 80 of the United States Civil War, June 30th 1861VirginiaOccupation of Buckhannon. VirginiaThe gunboat USS RELIANCE under the command of United States Navy, Lieutenant Mygatt, seized and destroyed the sloop PASSENGER in the Potomac River. LouisianaThe steamer CSS SUMTER, under the command of Confederate States Navy, Commander Raphael Semmes, ran the blockade at the mouth of the Mississippi River, eluding the wooden screw sloop USS BROOKLYN and escaping out to sea through Pass à l’Outre. Drawing: A drawing of SUMTER running the blockade out of New Orleans in 1861 MissouriHamilton R Gamble became the provisional United States Governor of Missouri. Governor Claiborne Fox Jackson was deposed as Governor of Missouri but continued to claim the office as unconfirmed Governor of a pro-Confederate state.
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Post by lordroel on Jul 1, 2023 6:02:20 GMT
Day 81 of the United States Civil War, July 1st 1861
Virginia
The Richmond Armoury and Arsenal started manufacturing war supplies for the Confederate State Army.
The wooden steam frigate USS MINNESOTA under the command of United States Navy, Captain Silas Horton Stringham, captured the schooner SALLY MEARS at Hampton Roads.
Today's Richmond, Virginia paper notes, "The Howitzer Batteries of Captains Latham and Shields had a target practicing on Saturday evening last. At a distance of 800 yards, the shooting was excellent, a number of balls being put into a space less than the size of a man. Several shells were fired, and exploded with extraordinary precision. One of them did rather more execution than was expected of it, by bursting in the midst of a flock of sheep that chanced to come in range, killing seventeen. The next day we had '"sheep meat"' for dinner." The war will be hard on animals as well as on humans".
The USS ALBATROSS, a screw steamer rigged as a three-masted schooner under the command of United States Navy, Commander George A. Prentiss joins the Atlantic Blockading Squadron under the command of Atlantic Blockading squadron's commander, United States Navy, Flag Officer Silas Stringham, at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
Tennessee
Although Tennessee had voted on May 6th 1861 to secede from the United States, the United States War Department issued orders for raising volunteer troops for United States service in Tennessee.
Kentucky
Although Kentucky had voted to remain neutral in the disagreement over states’ rights and secession, the United States War Department issued orders for raising volunteer troops in Kentucky for United States service.
Mississippi
New Orleans protests the blockade of ships leaving its port. The Governor of Mississippi, John J. Pettus proclaims his state is in danger and calls for additional arms.
North Carolina
Governor of North Carolina, John Willis Ellis of North Carolina died in office.
Missouri
A small force of United States Home Guards skirmished with pro-Confederate Missouri State Guards at Farmington.
United States Army, Colonel Franz Sigel’s command reached Neosho in southwestern Missouri, aiming to head off the retreat of the Missouri State Guard.
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Post by lordroel on Jul 2, 2023 6:25:43 GMT
Day 82 of the United States Civil War, July 2nd 1861District of Columbia(United States) President Abraham Lincoln issued an executive authorizing United States Army, General-in-Chief Major-General Winfield Scott to suspend the writ of habeas corpus if necessary to ensure the public safety between New York City and Washington, D.C. July 2, 1861
The Commanding General, Army of the United States:
You are engaged in suppressing an insurrection against the laws of the United States. If at any point on or in the vicinity of any military line which is now or which shall be used between the city of New York and the city of Washington you find resistance which renders it necessary to suspend the writ of habeas corpus for the public safety, you personally, or through the officer in command at the point where resistance occurs, are authorized to suspend that writ.
Given under my hand and the seal of the United States, at the city of Washington, this 2d day of July, A. D. 1861, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-fifth.
Abraham Lincoln
By the President:
William H. Seward,
Secretary of State.VirginiaUnited States Army, Major General George Brinton McClellan’s Army of Occupation reached Buckhannon, 24 miles west of Beverly on the Parkersburg turnpike. Hearing that Confederate States Army, Brigadier General Henry Alexander Wise was gathering a force to oppose him, he ordered a brigade under the command of United States Army Brigadier General Jacob Dolson Cox to the lower part of the Great Kanawha Valley in order to cut off Wise’s force. (Virginia) Manassas campaign - Battle of Hoke's RunPennsylvania Militia, Major General Robert Patterson’s commanding a the United States Army of the Shenandoah (Department of Pennsylvania) crossed the Potomac River near Williamsport. They marched south into Virginia on the main road to Martinsburg. Patterson’s intention was to pin the Confederate forces in the Shenandoah Valley and to prevent them from moving to join the defence of Manassas. Near Hoke’s Run in Berkeley County, United States Army, Colonel John Joseph Abercrombie’s and Colonel George Henry Thomas’s brigades encountered regiments from Confederate States Army, Brigadier General Thomas Jonathan Jackson’s brigade of the Confederate Army of the Shenandoah and [ushed them back slowly. Jackson’s orders were to delay the United States advance while withdrawing before Patterson’s larger force. The Confederates held out for 45 minutes and gave up a mile of ground before breaking off the action. As a result of the Confederate resistance, Patterson estimated the enemy’s strength as ten times its actual number and was deterred from attempting further engagement. United States losses were reported as 23 and Confederate as 91 men. Drawing: Colonel John C. Starkweather with his Wisconsin regiment Tennessee The Memphis Argus announces, “Yesterday Tennessee was admitted into The Confederacy. By proclamation of the President the Confederate laws are extended.” Tennessee takes control of the Nashville end of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad (L&N Railroad), to the great dismay of Kentuckians, who are now concerned about losing the entire railroad and all its rolling stock to the Confederacy. West VirginiaThe new Legislature of Western Virginia convened at Wheeling under the auspices of the Federal Government. MissouriThe heterogeneous mix of Regular, Volunteer, Home Guard, and other pro-United States forces commanded by United States Army, Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon in Missouri was designated as the Army of the West. Likewise, on the Confederate side, Confederate States Army, Brigadier General Benjamin McCulloch was given formal command of the equally mixed forces of the pro-Secession forces in Missouri, over the ad hoc commanders of the Missouri State Guard and others. TexasThe gunboat USS SOUTH CAROLINA under the command of United states Navy, Commander James Alden, imposed a blockade of Galveston, the third most important port along the Gulf of Mexico coast.
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