July 13, 1861
- Battle of Corrick’s Ford. While directing his rear guard, General Robert Garnett is shot and dies minutes later. He is the first general to die during the Civil War
A Chronological History of the Civil War in America1
- Battle of Carrickford, Wa. (Morris v. Garnett): rebels defeated and Gen. Garnett killed. Rebel power in Western Virginia broken.
- U. S. House of Representatives expelled John B. Clark, member from Missouri, by a vote 94 v. 45
- A Chronological History of the Civil War in America by Richard Swainson Fisher, New York, Johnson and Ward, 1863