August 16, 1861
A Chronological History of the Civil War in America1
- President Lincoln declared by proclamation the States of Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas in insurrection, and ordered all commercial intercourse between the North and seceded States to cease.
- Rebel camp at Fredericktown, Md., attacked, and 12 of the enemy taken prisoners.
- Several newspapers in New York presented by the grand jury for hostility to the Government.
- A Chronological History of the Civil War in America by Richard Swainson Fisher, New York, Johnson and Ward, 1863