August 2011

WASHINGTON, DC. The Federal government prohibits mail delivery of New York newspapers accused of publishing seditious material.

PADUCAH, KY. The USS Lexington seizes steamers W. B. Terry and Samuel Orr for illegal trading with the Confederates.

WASHINGTON, DC. The Federal government prohibits mail delivery of New York newspapers accused of publishing seditious material.

WHEELING, VA. The Wheeling Convention in Western Virginia proposes the state name “Kanawha” for the new entity it will become after seceding from Confederate Virginia.

WASHINGTON, DC. General McClellan formally takes command of the Army of the Potomac, which numbers nearly 55,000 men.

FRANKFORT, KY. Governor Beriah Magoffin writes to President Lincoln requesting that he remove Union troops from his state and stop from recruiting troops in order to maintain the state’s neutrality.

HAVERHILL, MA. A mob tars and feathers the allegedly pro-secession editor of the Essex County Democrat.

RICHMOND, VA. The Confederate Congress requests a war loan of $100 million from wealthy Southern planters.

NEW BEDFORD, CT. More than 20 old whaling schooners, their holds filled with stones, prepare to leave for North Carolina’s Albemarle Sound where they will be sunk to block the river inlets.

ALEXANDRIA, VA. A company from the 1st New York Cavalry under Capt. William H. Boyd routes a party of 20 Confederate cavalry at Pohick Church.