July 11, 1861
- Battle of Rich Mountain
- Sterling Price, Confederate governor Claiborne Jackson, Nathaniel Lyon, and Francis Blair meet at Planters’ House in St. Louis to discuss a truce. Lyon was quoted as saying “This means war” after the talks end abruptly
A Chronological History of the Civil War in America1
- Battle at Rich Mountain, Va. (Pegram v. Rosecrans): rebels defeated.
- U. S. Senate expel from that body Senators James M. Mason and R. M. T. Hunter, of Virginia; Thomas L. Clingman and Thomas Bragg, of North Carolina; Louis T. Wigfall and J. W. Hemphill, of Texas; Charles B. Mitchell and William K. Sebastian, of Arkansas; and A. O. P. Nicholson, of Tennessee.
- President approved the resolution of Congress remitting the duties on arms imported by States to be used in suppressing the rebellion.
- A Chronological History of the Civil War in America by Richard Swainson Fisher, New York, Johnson and Ward, 1863