Compiled by Jim Hachtel, President
Gen. William T. Sherman Memorial Civil War Roundtable
June 10, 1862 - General Henry Halleck restores General U.S. Grant, Don C. Buell, and John Pope to command of their respective corps. General Grant is the theater commander and immediately quickens the pace after the slow moving Halleck makes this change.
June 11, 1862 - Lord Palmerston, British Prime Minister, sends a message to U.S. minister Charles F. Adams protesting the actions of General Benjamin Butler in New Orleans.
June 11, 1862 - General John C. Fremont moves his forces from Port Republic back to Mount Jackson in western Virginia.
June 11, 1862 - Confederate guerrillas are unsuccessful in an attack on a Federal mail escort at Pink Hill, Missouri. William Quantrill is the leader of the raid.
June 11, 1862 - General Henry W. Benham, temporarily in charge of the Department of the South, is ordered to refrain from any engagement of the enemy by his commander, General David Hunter.
June 12, 1862 - General George A. McCall's division joins the Army of the Potomac, further strengthening this already overwhelming force.
June 12, 1862 - At 2:00 AM, General J.E.B. Stuart suddenly ordered his 1200 troops to be ready to ride in 10 minutes. They leave Richmond and over the next three days complete a circuit around General McClellan's Army.
June 12, 1862 - General Robert E. Lee dispatches a sizeable force toward the Shenandoah Valley. It turns out to be an attempt to confuse the Federal Army leaders into thinking a major offensive push was planned for the valley.
June 13, 1862 - General J.E.B. Stuart is past the right flank of the Union army and decides to continue. In a minor skirmish with the 5th U.S. Cavalry, Captain William Latane of the 9th Virginia Cavalry is killed, the only casualty suffered by Stuart's forces on the entire ride.
June 14, 1862 - As J.E.B. Stuart closes in on the end of his ride around the Union Army, he is chased by Federal Cavalry commanded by his father-in-law, Colonel Philip St.George Cook, a fellow Virginian.
June 15, 1862 - President Lincoln informs General Fremont that Confederate troop movement toward the Shenandoah Valley is likely a ruse to mask General Thomas J. Jackson's movement to Richmond.
June 15, 1862 - General Robert E. Lee orders General Jackson to join the Army of Northern Virginia on the Peninsula as he arrives in the Richmond area from the Shenandoah Valley. It is General Lee's intent to cripple General McClellan's Army before Gen. McDowell can reinforce.
June 15, 1862 - General Stuart rides into Richmond with important military intelligence about the size and position of the Army of the Potomac. He also informs Lee that General John Fritz Porter's V Corps is "in the air" (unprotected and unsupported) on their right flank. General Lee plans an attack on this exposed weak spot.
June 15, 1862 - Union troops under General William T. Sherman skirmish at Tallahatchie Bridge, Mississippi.
June 16, 1862 - The rest of General Stuart's Cavalry arrives in Richmond with 165 prisoners and about 260 mules and horses.
June 16, 1862 - On James Island, South Carolina, General Henry Benham orders an attack on the Confederate fortification at Secessionville, southwest of Charleston, in spite of his standing order to avoid any contact with the enemy. (See entry for June 11, 1862.) The battle of Secessionville is a disaster for the Union. The fort is renamed Fort Lamar to honor Colonel Thomas G. Lamar of the 1st South Carolina Artillery, the unit most responsible for the defensive success. General Benham is relieved from command.
