1861 June 18th

June 18 1861 Tuesday

Chesapeake Bay Blockade

McClellan’s West Virginia Campaign

Lyon’s Operations in Missouri

Maryland. Incidents at Edwards Ferry and Goose Creek.

Maryland. Union troops crossed the Potomac into Virginia from Hagerstown to Williamsport.

Missouri. Incident at Camp Cole.

Missouri. Thirty-five Confederates were captured at Liberty by US Regular Army soldiers from Kansas City.

Missouri. As parts of the Missouri State Guard accompanied pro-Confederate Governor Claiborne Jackson from Boonville towards southwest Missouri, a Union Home Guard regiment was in position to interfere with his retreat. In Benton County, the majority of the inhabitants were of Southern origin and pro-Confederate in sentiment; however, German immigrants were exclusively pro-Union and anti-slavery. These Germans made up the core of the Benton County Home Guard. Captain Abel HW Cook began to form the regiment in early June and called for the volunteers to assemble northeast of Cole Camp on 11^th June. A pro-secession force was gathering nearby at Warsaw. Confederate Captain Walter S O’Kane organized the Warsaw “Grays” and Major Thomas W Murray organized the Warsaw “Blues.” The combined force numbered about 350 men, with 100 of them mounted. O’Kane was elected to command the battalion as its Lieutenant-Colonel. The secessionists were aided by Benton County’s Sheriff Bartholomew W Keown who attempted to arrest Captains Cook and Mitchell at the Union Home Guard camp, but they refused to submit. The arrest was apparently concealed his real mission of gathering intelligence. The Union force occupied two adjoining farms 600 yards apart which belonged to Henry Harms and John Heisterberg. The Home Guards called this location Camp Lyon. Cook had about 400 smoothbore muskets. While up to 900 men had initially gathered, as many as half were on furlough for lack of weapons or for other reasons. Meanwhile, O’Kane’s force marched from Warsaw to attack them. A respected citizen, John Tyree, had witnessed the preparations of the secessionists and reported it to the officers at Camp Lyon. As he returned from reporting this, he was captured by O’Kane’s men and shot as a spy.

Virginia. The relocation of ordnance equipment from the Harper’s Ferry Arsenal to the Richmond Arsenal in Virginia and the Fayetteville Arsenal in North Carolina was completed and the manufacture of arms began.

Virginia. Confederates from Romney destroyed the railroad bridge at New Creek.

Union Organisation

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
Western Gunboat Flotilla USN: Commander John Rodgers USN
Potomac Flotilla USN: Commander James Harmon Ward USN

General–in-Chief: Winfield Scott

Department of Annapolis: Nathaniel Prentiss Banks
Department of the East: John Ellis Wool
Department of Florida: Harvey Brown
Department of Kentucky: Robert Anderson
Department of New Mexico: Edward Richard Sprigg Canby
Department of Northeastern Virginia: Irvin McDowell
Department of the Ohio: George Brinton McClellan
- Army of Occupation: George Brinton McClellan
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 Texas: Vacant
Department of Utah: Philip St George Cooke
Department of Virginia: Benjamin Franklin Butler
Department of Washington: Joseph King Fenno Mansfield
Department 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: Theophilus Hunter Holmes
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: Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard
- Army of the Potomac: Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard
Department of South Carolina: Daniel Harvey Hill
Department of Southwestern Virginia: William Wing Loring
Department of Texas: Earl Van Dorn
Department of West Florida: Braxton Bragg
- “Forces in Pensacola”: Braxton Bragg
Defences of Savannah: Alexander Robert Lawton
Indian Territory: Benjamin McCulloch
Forces in Harper’s Ferry”: Joseph Eggleston Johnston
Forces in Richmond: Thomas Turner Fauntleroy
Army of the Kanawha: Henry Alexander Wise
Army of the Northwest: Robert Selden Garnett

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 Department of the Ohio & Army of Occupation
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
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
Major-General USV John Adams Dix 16 May 1861
Major-General USV Benjamin Franklin Butler 16 May 1861 Department of Virginia
Major-General USV Nathaniel Prentiss Banks 3 June 1861 to rank from 16 May 1861 Department of Annapolis
Brigadier-General USV Nathaniel Lyon 17 May 1861 Department 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
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
Colonel George Wright 3 March 1855 District of Oregon
Colonel Philip St George Cooke 14 June 1858 Department of Utah
Colonel Edward Richard Sprigg Canby 14 May 1861 Department of New Mexico
Colonel Harvey Brown 14 May 1861 Department of Florida
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
Major-General PACS David Emanuel Twiggs March 22 1861 Department No 1
Brigadier-General ACSA Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard March 1 1861 Department of the Potomac & Army of the Potomac
Brigadier-General ACSA Braxton Bragg March 7 1861 Forces in Louisiana & Department of West Florida & Forces in Pensacola & Forces in New Orleans
Brigadier-General ACSA Joseph Eggleston Johnston May 15 1861 to rank from May 14 1861 Forces in Harper’s Ferry
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
Brigadier-General PACS William Wing Loring 20 May 1861 Department of Southwestern Virginia
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 & Department of Fredericksburg
Brigadier-General PACS Henry Alexander Wise 5 June 1861 Army of the Kanawha
Brigadier-General PACS Robert Selden Garnett 6 June 1861 Army of the Northwest
Brigadier-General PACS William Joseph Hardee 17 June 1861
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
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.
Colonel Daniel Harvey Hill Department of South Carolina
Colonel Thomas Turner Fauntleroy Forces in Richmond