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On this day in Civil War history
Compiled by Mitchell Werksman and Jim Klag
June 6 Birthdays
1829 - John Baillie McIntosh, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Tampa, Florida (d. 1888)
1840 - William Francis Bartlett, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Haverhill, Massachusetts (d. 1876)
Thursday June 6 1861
Compiled by Mitchell Werksman and Jim Klag
June 6 Birthdays
1829 - John Baillie McIntosh, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Tampa, Florida (d. 1888)
1840 - William Francis Bartlett, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Haverhill, Massachusetts (d. 1876)
Thursday June 6 1861
- The State of Missouri is transferred to the Dept. of the Ohio, commanded by Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, USA.
- Brig. Gen. Henry Alexander Wise, CSA, ex-governor of Virginia, is ordered to command the CSA troops in the Kanawha Valley, WV.
- Skirmishes with Indians at Daley's Ferry and on the Mad River, near Arcata, CA. (Jun 6-7)
- Skirmish at Grand River, Indian Territory.
- Skirmish near Tompkinsville, KY, with Col. Edward C. Williams, 9th PA Cavalry.
- Federal reconnaissance from Booneville toward Baldwyn, MS, and skirmish.
- Action near Harrisonburg, VA, with Maj. Gen. T. Jackson, CSA.
- Brig. Gen. Turner Ashby, C.S.A., is mortally wounded while fighting a rear guard action, while defending Maj. Gen. Stonewall Jackson's CSA, withdrawal up the Shenandoah Valley toward Port Republic, a few miles south of the town of Harrisonburg, VA.
- Affair at Port Royal Ferry, SC, where a Rebel landing party burns the ferry-house and crossing flats used by the Federals.
- Naval engagement off Memphis, TN, and the occupation of Memphis by the Union forces, which opens up the Mississippi River in this area. Union gunboats involved included: USS Benton, Carondelet, Cairo, Louisville, and the St. Louis, in addition to the US Rams, Monarch and the Queen of the West.
- Edward Asbury O'Neal, CSA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
- Stephen Hinsdale Weed, USA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
- Skirmish at Oak Camp, CA, about 15 miles from Fort Gaston, as Indians ambush a pack train; the survivors fleeing back to Fawn Prairie.
- Federal operations about Fort Gibson, the Indian Territory, including skirmishes (Jun 16) on Greenleaf Prairie, mostly between Union and Confederate Indian Regiments. (Jun 6-20)
- Skirmish at Shawneetown, KS.
- Skirmish at Waitsborough, KY.
- Skirmish near Richmond, LA.
- Skirmish on the Shelbyville Pike, TN.
- Skirmish near Berry ville, VA, with Lieut. Gen. James "Old Pete" Longstreet, CSA.
- Skirmish at Bealer's Ferry, Little Red River, AR, with the loss of life.
- Engagement at Old River Lake, or Lake Chicot, AR. Also known as the engagement at Ditch Bayou, Fish Bayou, Grand Lake and Lake Village.
- The Federal occupation of Stauton, VA, by Maj. Gen. David Hunter, USA.
- Skirmish near Moorefield, Hardy County, WV, with Rebel Cavalry.
- The guerrilla, William Clarke Quantrill dies in Louisville, KY, at age 27, from wounds received on May 10.