Civil War Day-By-Day

August 15, 1861

• General George McClellan assumes command of the Army of the Potomac.
• The Department of Kentucky and the Department of the Cumberland are combined under General Robert Anderson.

A Chronological History of the Civil War in America¹

• President Davis ordered all Northern men to leave the Confederacy within 40 days.

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