Civil War Day-By-Day

July 16, 1861

• At the order of President Abraham Lincoln, Union troops begin a 25-mile march into Virginia for what will become the First Battle of Bull Run, the first major land battle of the war.

A Chronological History of the Civil War in America¹

• Rebel pickets driven beyond Fairfax Court House,Va.
• Battle at Barboursville, Va.; rebels defeated.
• Tighlman, a negro, killed three of the rebel prize crew on the schooner “S. J. Waring,” and brought the vessel into New York.
• Skirmish at Millville, Mo.

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