Civil War Day-By-Day

June 8, 1861

• Virginia turns its state militia over to the Confederate States of America
• By a vote of 108,339 to 47,233, Tennessee decides to secede from the United States

A Chronological History of the Civil War in America¹

• North Carolina State Convention ratified the C. S. Constitution.
• Gen. Patterson’s advance moved from Chambersburg toward Harper’s Ferry.

1. A Chronological History of the Civil War in America by Richard Swainson Fisher, New York, Johnson and Ward, 1863