Civil War Timeline / Chronology for June 1861

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