July 24 1861 Wednesday
Confederate Invasion of New Mexico
Patterson’s Shenandoah Valley Operations
Missouri. Incident at Blue Mills.
New Mexico Territory. A Confederate battalion of the 2nd Texas Mounted Rifles under Lieutenant-Colonel John R Baylor arrived in Mesilla and prepared to launch a surprise attack on Fort Fillmore the following morning. However, a Confederate deserter informed the fort’s commander, Major Isaac Lynde, of the plans. Baylor camped within six hundred yards of the fort ready to cross the river in the morning.
Virginia. Operation at Black River. A Union naval expedition from Fort Monroe, carrying 300 soldiers, destroyed nine sloops and schooners and captured a tenth.
Virginia. Union Brigadier-General Jacob Dolson Cox’s force advanced from Pocataligo and attacked the Confederates of Brigadier-General Henry Alexander Wise at Tyler Mountain. The Confederates were forced to abandon their camps around Charleston and Wise led his men back towards Gauley Bridge.
Union Organisation
USA: The Cheat Mountain District was established in the Department of the Ohio, comprising the vicinity of Cheat Mountain, Virginia.
USA: Brigadier-General Joseph Jones Reynolds assumed command of the Cheat Mountain District.
Reynolds, Joseph Jones | Kentucky | Born 4 January 1822 Flemingsburg, Kentucky | USMA 1843 10/39 Artillery | 2nd Lieutenant USA 3rd US Artillery 11 May 1846 1st Lieutenant USA 3rd US Artillery 3 March 1847 Resigned USA 28 February 1857 Colonel 10th Indiana 27 April 1861 Brigadier-General Indiana Militia 10 May 1861 Brigadier-General USV June 14 1861 to rank from May 17 1861 Resigned USV 23 January 1862 Colonel USV 75th Indiana 21 August 1862 Reappointed Brigadier-General USV 17 September 1862 Major-General USV 29 November 1862 Mustered out USV 1 September 1866 Colonel USA 26th US Infantry 28 July 1866 3rd US Cavalry 15 December 1870 Retired USA 25 June 1877 | Died 25 February 1899 | 24 July 1861 – 18 September 1861 Cheat Mountain District, 6 January 1864 – 15 June 1864 Defences of New Orleans, 16 June 1864 – 4 July 1864 District of Morganza, 7 July 1864 – 6 November 1864 XIX Corps Gulf, 4 November 1864 – 24 November 1864 Military Division of West Mississippi, 22 December 1864 – 1 August 1865 Department of Arkansas, 22 December 1864 – 1 August 1865 Army of Arkansas, 22 December 1864 – 1 August 1865 VII Corps Arkansas
Commander in Chief: President Abraham Lincoln
Vice-President: Hannibal Hamlin
Secretary of War: Simon Cameron
Secretary of the Navy: Gideon Welles
- Coast Blockading Squadron USN: Flag Officer Silas Horton Stringham USN
- Gulf Blockading Squadron USN: Flag Officer William Mervine USN
- Pacific Squadron USN: Captain John B Montgomery USN
- Potomac Flotilla USN: Commander Thomas Tingey Craven USN
General–in-Chief: Winfield Scott
- Department of the East: John Ellis Wool
- Department of Florida: Harvey Brown
- Department of Kentucky: Robert Anderson
- Department of Maryland: John Adams Dix awaited
- Department of Northeastern Virginia: Irvin McDowell
- Army of Northeastern Virginia: Irvin McDowell
- Department of the Ohio: William Starke Rosecrans
- Cheat Mountain District: Joseph Jones Reynolds
- Army of Occupation: William Starke Rosecrans
- Department of the Pacific: Edwin Vose Sumner
- District of Oregon: George Wright
- Department of Pennsylvania: Robert Patterson
- Army of the Shenandoah: Robert Patterson
- Department of the Shenandoah: Nathaniel Prentiss Banks awaited
- Department of Texas: Vacant
- Department of Virginia: Benjamin Franklin Butler
- Department of Washington: Joseph King Fenno Mansfield
- Western Department: Nathaniel Lyon interim John Charles Frémont awaited
- District of Ironton: Benjamin Gratz Brown
- Army of the West: Nathaniel Lyon
Confederate Organisation
Commander in Chief: President Jefferson Finis Davis
Vice-President: Alexander Hamilton Stephens
Secretary of War: Leroy Pope Walker
Secretary of the Navy: Stephen Russell Mallory
Military Adviser to the President: Robert Edward Lee
- Department No 1: David Emanuel Twiggs
- “Forces in New Orleans” “Army of Louisiana”: Braxton Bragg
- Department of Fredericksburg: Daniel Harvey Hill
- District of Aquia: Daniel Ruggles
- Department of Norfolk: Benjamin Huger
- Department of North Carolina: Theophilus Hunter Holmes
- Defences of North Carolina: Theophilus Hunter Holmes
- Department of the Peninsula: John Bankhead Magruder
- Army of the Peninsula: John Bankhead Magruder
- Department of the Potomac: Joseph Eggleston Johnston
- Army of the Potomac: Joseph Eggleston Johnston
- Army of the Kanawha: Henry Alexander Wise
- Department of South Carolina: Daniel Harvey Hill
- Department of Southwestern Virginia: William Wing Loring
- Department of Texas: Earl Van Dorn
- Defences of Galveston: John Creed Moore
- Department of West Florida: Braxton Bragg
- “Forces in Pensacola”: Braxton Bragg
- Western Department: Leonidas Polk
- District of Upper Arkansas: William Joseph Hardee
- Forces in Missouri: Benjamin McCulloch
- Defences of Savannah: Alexander Robert Lawton
- Indian Territory: Benjamin McCulloch
- Forces in Richmond: Thomas Turner Fauntleroy
- Army of Liberation: Gideon Johnson Pillow
- Army of the Northwest: William Wing Loring
Union Generals
- Major-General USA Winfield Scott 5 July 1841 to rank from 25 June 1841 General-in-Chief
- Major-General USA George Brinton McClellan 14 May 1861
- Major-General USA John Charles Frémont 3 July 1861 to rank from 14 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USA John Ellis Wool 25 June 1841 Department of the East
- Brigadier-General USA William Selby Harney 14 June 1858
- Brigadier-General USA Edwin Vose Sumner 16 March 1861 Department of the Pacific
- Brigadier-General USA Irvin McDowell 14 May 1861 Department of Northeastern Virginia & Army of Northeastern Virginia
- Brigadier-General USA Joseph Fenno King Mansfield May 17 1861 to rank from May 14 1861 Department of Washington
- Brigadier-General USA Montgomery Cunningham Meigs 15 May 1861 Quartermaster-General
- Brigadier-General USA Robert Anderson 17 June 1861 to rank from 15 May 1861 Department of Kentucky
- Brigadier-General USA William Starke Rosecrans 16 June 1861 to rank from 16 May 1861 Department of the Ohio & Army of Occupation
- Major-General USV John Adams Dix 16 May 1861 & Department of Maryland awaited
- Major-General USV Benjamin Franklin Butler 16 May 1861Department of Virginia Department of the Shenandoah awaited
- Major-General USV Nathaniel Prentiss Banks 3 June 1861 to rank from 16 May 1861
- Major-General USV John Charles Frémont 3 July 1861 to rank from 14 May 1861 Western Department awaited
- Brigadier-General USV Nathaniel Lyon 17 May 1861 Department of the West interim & Army of the West
- Brigadier-General USV Jacob Dolson Cox 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Samuel Peter Heintzelman 27 May 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Robert Cumming Schenck 5 June 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV John Pope 14 June 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Joseph Jones Reynolds 14 June 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861 Cheat Mountain District
- Brigadier-General USV Stephen Augustus Hurlbut 14 June 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV William Tecumseh Sherman 3 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Andrew Porter 6 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV William Buel Franklin 6 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Charles Pomeroy Stone 6 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Thomas West Sherman 6 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Benjamin Franklin Kelley 6 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Joseph Hooker 6 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV John Alexander McClernand 6 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Frederick West Lander 6 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Erasmus Darwin Keyes 7 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV David Hunter 7 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Don Carlos Buell 7 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Fitz-John Porter 7 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV George Archibald McCall 7 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Rufus King 7 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Franz Sigel 7 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 17 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Charles Smith Hamilton 7 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Samuel Ryan Curtis 7 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Philip Kearny 7 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Alpheus Starkey Williams 9 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV William Reading Montgomery 9 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Israel Bush Richardson 9 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss 9 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Darius Nash Couch 9 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 17 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Ulysses Simpson Grant 9 August 1861 to rank from May 17 1861
- Brigadier-General USV James Cooper 12 August 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Julius Stahel 12 November 1861 to rank from 17 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV John Wolcott Phelps 9 August 1861 to rank from 27 May 1861
- Brigadier-General USV James Brewerton Ricketts April 30 1862 to rank from July 21 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Michael Corcoran August 15 1862 to rank from July 21 1861
- Brigadier-General USV Orlando Bolivar Willcox August 19 1862 to rank from July 21 1861
- Colonel George Wright 3 March 1855 District of Oregon
- Colonel Harvey Brown 14 May 1861 Department of Florida
- Colonel Benjamin Gratz Brown 22 April 1861 District of Ironton
- State Major-General Robert Patterson Department of Pennsylvania Army of the Shenandoah
Confederate Generals
- General ACSA Samuel Cooper 31 August 1861 to rank from 16 May 1861 Adjutant-General and Inspector General
- General ACSA Albert Sidney Johnston 31 August 1861 to rank from 30 May 1861
- General ACSA Robert Edward Lee 31 August 1861 to rank from 14 June 1861 Military Adviser to the President
- General ACSA Joseph Eggleston Johnston August 31 1861 to rank from 4 July 1861 Department of the Potomac & Army of the Potomac
- General ACSA Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard 31 August 1861 to rank from 21 July 1861
- Major-General PACS David Emanuel Twiggs March 22 1861 Department No 1
- Major-General Leonidas Polk PACS 25 June 1861 Western Department
- Brigadier-General ACSA Braxton Bragg March 7 1861 Forces in Louisiana & Department of West Florida & Forces in Pensacola & Forces in New Orleans
- Brigadier-General PACS Alexander Robert Lawton 13 April 1861 Defences of Savannah
- Brigadier-General PACS Milledge Luke Bonham 23 April 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS Benjamin McCulloch 11 May 1861 Indian Territory & Forces in Missouri
- Brigadier-General PACS William Wing Loring 20 May 1861 Department of Southwestern Virginia & Army of the Northwest
- Brigadier-General PACS Charles Clark 22 May 1861.
- Brigadier-General PACS John Buchanan Floyd 23 May 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS William Henry Talbot Walker 25 May 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS Henry Rootes Jackson 4 June 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS Earl Van Dorn 5 June 1861 Department of Texas
- Brigadier-General PACS Theophilus Hunter Holmes 5 June 1861 Department of North Carolina & Defences of North Carolina
- Brigadier-General PACS Henry Alexander Wise 5 June 1861 Army of the Kanawha
- Brigadier-General PACS Robert Selden Garnett 6 June 1861 KIA 13 July 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS William Joseph Hardee 17 June 1861 District of Upper Arkansas
- Brigadier-General PACS Benjamin Huger 17 June 1861 Department of Norfolk
- Brigadier-General PACS Thomas Jonathan Jackson 17 June 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS Richard Stoddert Ewell 17 June 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS Henry Hopkins Sibley 17 June 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS Edmund Kirby Smith 17 June 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS Barnard Elliott Bee 17 June 1861 KIA 21 July 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS John Clifford Pemberton 17 June 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS John Bankhead Magruder 17 June 1861 Department of the Peninsula & Army of the Peninsula
- Brigadier-General PACS James Longstreet 17 June 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS David Rumph Jones 17 June 1861.
- Brigadier-General PACS John Henry Winder 21 June 1861 Provost Marshal General
- Brigadier-General PACS Richard Caswell Gatlin 13 August 1861 to rank from 8 July 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS Gideon Johnson Pillow 9 July 1861 Army of Liberation
- Brigadier-General PACS Samuel Read Anderson 9 July 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS Benjamin Franklin Cheatham 9 July 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS Daniel Smith Donelson 9 July 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS Felix Kirk Zollicoffer 9 July 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS Jones Mitchell Withers 10 July 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS Daniel Harvey Hill 10 July 1861 Department of South Carolina & Department of Fredericksburg
- Brigadier-General PACS Richard Heron Anderson 19 July 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS Robert Augustus Toombs 19 July 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS Arnold Elzey 21 July 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS Samuel Jones 21 July 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS Jubal Anderson Early July 21 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS William Henry Chase Whiting 28 August 1861 to rank from 21 July 1861
- Brigadier-General PACS Francis Stebbins Bartow 21 July 1861
- Colonel Thomas Turner Fauntleroy Forces in Richmond
- Colonel Daniel Ruggles May 1861 District of Aquia
- Colonel John Creed Moore Defences of Galveston
