August 26, 1861
- Battle of (Kessler’s) Cross Lanes. General John Floyd routs an Ohio regiment
- General Benjamin Butler leads a successful amphibious landing on Cape Hatteras.
- King Kamehameha IV proclaimed the neutrality of the Hawaiian Islands during the Civil War.
A Chronological History of the Civil War in America1
- Seventh Ohio Regiment, while breakfasting at Summersville, Va., surprised and surrounded by a force of rebels under Floyd, but fought themselves through with a comparatively small loss.
- Naval and military expedition sailed from Fortress Monroe against the forts at Hatteras Inlet.S
- A Chronological History of the Civil War in America by Richard Swainson Fisher, New York, Johnson and Ward, 1863