Civil War Day-By-Day

July 15, 1861

A Chronological History of the Civil War in America¹

• Union army, 40,000 strong, under McDowell, moved from encampments in and around Washington and Arlington Heights toward Fairfax
  Court House, Va.
• Skirmish at Bunker Hill, Va.; rebels routed.

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