Civil War Day-By-Day

July 20, 1861

A Chronological History of the Civil War in America¹

• C. S. Congress met at Richmond.
• Union army moved from Fairfax Court House and vicinity toward Manassas Junction.
• The rebels under Gen. H. A. Wise fled from the valley of the Big Kanawha on the approach of the Union troops.

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