Civil War Day-By-Day

June 20, 1861

A Chronological History of the Civil War in America¹

• Major-Gen. McClellan took command of the Union forces in Western Virginia.
• Wheeling Convention elected Frank H. Pierpont governor of the Restored Government of Virginia.

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