Compiled by Jim Hachtel, President
Gen. William T. Sherman Memorial Civil War Roundtable
June 20 - The Missouri-Kansas border ruffians were active. The Kansas governor calls on citizens to resist any pro-secession attacks from Missouri.
June 22 - At Ft. Pickens, FL Col. Harvey Brown tells the War Department that he will not return fugitive slaves to their owners unless ordered to do so.
June 22 - At Greenville, TN pro-Union sympathizers declare their allegiance to the Federal Government (see June 17).
June 23 - At Falls Church, VA Professor Thaddeus S.C. Lowe rises in his balloon to observe Confederate troop deployment - the first ever use of a balloon for observation.
June 23 - The ex-USS Merrimac (scuttled as U.S. Troops abandon Norfolk on April 20,1861) begins to be converted to the new ironclad CSS Virginia at Norfolk now held by Confederate troops.
June 24 - At Washington, DC Pres. Lincoln views a demonstration of the "coffee mill," a new experimental rapid-fire weapon.
June 24 - Confederate Batteries at Mathias Point, VA, are engaged by the USS Pawnee and the Thomas Freeborn.
June 25 - Leonidas Polk is appointed Major General, C.S.A.
June 26 - Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks is directed to "discreetly" arrest George P. Jane, Baltimore, MD marshal, for secessionist activity.
June 26 - Col. Lew Wallace meets Confederate resistance at Patterson Creek in western Virginia and defeats the Confederates in a skirmish.
June 27 - The newly created "Blockade Strategy Board" made up of Captain Samuel F. DuPont, Commander Charles H. Davis, and other later Army, Navy, and Coast Guard notables, met in Washington, DC to plan blockade strategy that remained in effect to the end of the war.
June 27 - Confederate forces at Mathias Point, VA repel a landing force from the USS Pawnee (see June 26) and Commander James H. Ward, formerly Superintendent of the US Naval Academy is killed, becoming the first U.S. Navy Officer fatality.
June 27 - A landing party from the USS Resolute burns a supply depot along the Potomac.
