1st » American Civil War, Battle of Fairfax Court House (June 1861): the first land battle of the American Civil War after the Battle of Fort Sumter, producing the first Confederate States Army known as Confederate combat casualty.
3rd » American Civil War: Battle of Philippi (West Virginia) Battle of Philippi (also called the Philippi Races) Union (American Civil War) Union forces rout Confederate States of America Confederate troops in Barbour County, West Virginia Barbour County, Virgi
8th » American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union (American Civil War) called Union.
10th » American Civil War: Battle of Big Bethel - Confederate States of America or Confederate troops under John B. Magruder defeat a much larger Union (American Civil War) or Union force led by General Ebenezer W. Pierce in Virginia.
17th » American Civil War: Battle of Vienna, Virginia.
Famous Birthdays on June in 1861
2nd » Concordia Selander, Swedish actress and manager (d. 1935)
9th » Pierre Duhem, French physicist, mathematician, and historian (d. 1916)
9th » Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon Tammann, Russian-German chemist and physicist (d. 1938)
12th » William Attewell, English cricketer and umpire (d. 1927)
17th » Pete Browning, American baseball player (d. 1905)
17th » Omar Bundy, American general (d. 1940)
19th » Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Scottish-English field marshal (d. 1928)