1860:
Southern delegates hold a National Democratic convention in Richmond. Party leaders urge a "wait and see" approach.

1861:  
Colonel William Loring, USA, adandons New Mexico

First session of the Second Wheeling Convention


1862:  
Skirmishes near Pink Hill, Deep Water, and Cauville, Missouri

Skirmish near Monetrey, Kentucky


1863:  
Skirmish at Diascund Birdge, Virginia

Affair at Scottsville, Kentucky

Skrimish at Seneca Mills, Maryland

Skirmish at Burnsville and Smith's Bridge, Mississippi

Action at Triune, Tennessee

General John Hunt Morgan leaves Alexandria, Tennessee to raid Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana. His efforts would never relly hurt the Union supply lines.

Following the battle of Brice's Crossroads, Forrest's men pursue the federal retreat and take hundreds of prisoners.  His efforts would never relly hurt the Union supply lines.



1864:  
Combats at Noonday Creek and McAfee's Cross Roads, Georgia

Combat at Trevilian Station, Virginia:
On this day, a Confederate cavalry intercepts General Phillip Sheridan's Union cavalry as it seeks to destroy a rail line. A two-day battle ensued in which the Confederates drove off the Yankees with minimal damage to a precious supply line.

Shortly after the Battle of Cold Harbor earlier in the month, Union General Ulysses S. Grant dispatched Sheridan, his cavalry commander, to ride towards Charlottesville and cut the Virginia Central Railroad. The line was supplying Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, which was engaged in a life-or-death struggle with Grant's Army of the Potomac around Richmond and Petersburg.

Sheridan swung north around Richmond and headed toward Charlottesville, 60 miles northwest of Richmond. General Wade Hampton, commander of the Confederate cavalry since General J.E.B. Stuart had died the previous month, heard of Sheridan's move and set out to intercept the Yankees. On the morning of June 11, Union General George Custer's men attacked Hampton's supply train near Trevilian Station. Although they scored an initial success, Custer soon found himself almost completely surrounded by Rebel cavalry. Custer formed his men into a triangle and made several counterattacks before Sheridan came to his rescue in the late afternoon, taking 500 Southern prisoners in the process.

The struggle continued the next day. With his ammunition running low and his cavalry dangerously far from its supply line, Sheridan eventually withdrew his force and returned to the Army of the Potomac. The Yankees tore up about five miles of rail line, but the damage was relatively light for the high number of casualties. Sheridan lost 735 men compared to nearly 1,000 for Hampton. But the Confederates had driven off the Yankees and minimized damage to the railroad.


Action at Ripley, Mississippi

Skirmish at Lexington and near Midway, Virginia

The C. S. S. Alabama arrives in Cherbourg, France.


Primary sources:
Official Records of the War of the Rebellion
A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion ; by Frederick Dyer;
The Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865 by E. B. Long with Barbara Long;
National Archives Guide Index

I was over on the A-C Forum this morning. Amazing news. Nobody was born today!  

Let's fix that:
Born on June 11

1572   Ben Jonson, English playwright and poet.
1769   Anne Newport Royall, American newspaper reporter.
1823   James L. Kemper, Confederate general during the American Civil War.
1880   Jeannette Rankin, U.S. Representative from Montana, the first woman in Congress.
1895   Nikolai A. Bulganin, premier of the Soviet Union from 1955 to 1958.
1910   Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French oceanic explorer, filmaker, author and inventor of the aqualung.
1913   Vince Lombardi, American football coach.
1925   William Styron, American novelist (The Confessions of Nat Turner, Sophie’s Choice).
1932   Athol Fugard, South African playwright, director and actor (The Blood Knot, "Master Harold" . . . and the Boys).


Ken missed something I left out today on purpose:

1861   Union forces under General George B. McClellen repulse a Confederate force at Rich Mountain in western Virginia.

GOTCHA!

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GrumpyDave wrote : 1861   Union forces under General George B. McClellen repulse a Confederate force at Rich Mountain in western Virginia. GOTCHA!

And certain soldiers disappeared into the sunset looking for their long lost back packs!  

Dave, you are a month early...it was July 11th!


http://www.richmountain.org/2006event/History.htm

No Kidding, two of my sources list the action at Rich Mountain as June 11th. Ohio State University and the History Channel.

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GrumpyDave wrote : No Kidding, two of my sources list the action at Rich Mountain as June 11th. Ohio State University and the History Channel.

The June 11th event was the more mainstream action..  

Bullock,
I just spit water on my keyboard.

On June 11, Virginia held a "convention" of sorts to discuss the problem in Western Virgina.  The actual battle began on July 11.  See Hunter Lesser's "Rebels At The Gate" or go to our old site at http://www.richmountain.org/2006event/History.htm to read up on it.

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GrumpyDave wrote : Bullock, I just spit water on my keyboard.

Good thing you keep extras on hand for just such an occasion..