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Civil War Timeline / Chronology for June 1861 <<Previous year Next year>> January, 1861
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June 3 , 1861
Stephen A. Douglas dies from typhoid fever, Chicago, IL
Stephen A. Douglas
June 3 , 1861
Battle of Philippi
First land engagement of the Civil War between American and Confederate forces
West Virginia Virginia
George McClellan
Philippi
Operations in Western Virginia
Civil War Firsts
June 4 , 1861
Delegates to the Second Wheeling Convention are selected.
West Virginia
Second Wheeling Convention
June 8 , 1861
By a vote of 108,339 to 47,233, Tennessee decides to secede from the United States
Tennessee
Tennessee Ordinance of Secession
Confederate Order of Secession
June 8 , 1861
Virginia turns its state militia over to the Confederate States of America
Virginia
June 10 , 1861
Battle of Big Bethel
Daniel Harvey Hill
John Magruder
William Farrar Smith
Battle of Big Bethel
Civil War Firsts
June 11 , 1861 June 25 , 1861
First session of the Second Wheeling Convention
West Virginia
Second Wheeling Convention
June 14 , 1861
Joe Johnston begins to withdraw from Harpers Ferry by blowing up the 800-foot B&O trestle over the Potomac River
Harpers Ferry
Joseph E. Johnston
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
June 17 , 1861
Nathaniel Lyons captures Boonville
Missouri
June 21 , 1861
North 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 (Secession from the United States).
North Carolina
June 23 , 1861
Thomas Jackson destroys 42 engines and nearly 400 cars of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Martinsburg, Virginia
Virginia West Virginia
Stonewall Jackson
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
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