Exploring the most important 55 months in American history
Confederates fall back in southwestern Virginia as the long dispute between John B. Floyd and Henry A. Wise finally comes to an end.
Federals advance on Munson’s Hill, a few miles southwest of Washington, and make an embarrassing discovery.
The growing tension between George B. McClellan and Winfield Scott results in a harsh exchange after a conference on military strategy.
Confederates form a defense line across Kentucky while Federals open recruitment efforts, thereby ensuring that turmoil in the state will continue.
Despite the recent loss of Lexington and the scattering of his forces, John C. Fremont reports that his troops are somehow “gathering around the enemy” in Missouri.
Sterling Price’s Missouri State Guards capture a Federal force and a key commercial town in their effort to expel the Federals from their state.