Civil War Day-By-Day

June 10, 1861

• Battle of Big Bethel: Confederate troops under John B. Magruder defeat a much larger Union force led by General Ebenezer W. Pierce in Virginia.

A Chronological History of the Civil War in America¹

• Battle of Big Bethel, Va.—Union force repulsed.
• Major-Gen. Banks assumed command of the Department of Annapolis.

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