SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1861. In the office all day as usual. Removals of Examiners expected shortly, great outside pressure for office, qualification a secondary consideration, Salaries are wanted. A general movement of troops is expected to take place tomorrow. Went down to the Navy Yard with Julia. Went on board of the new Steamer Pensacola. [...]

Reconnoitreing the Shores of the Potomac at Night, to Discover the Military Works of the Secessionists, by Means of Professor Grant’s Calcium Lights Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, July 6, 1861

Austin State Gazette, July 6, 1861 A company of emigrants from Missouri, numbering nearly 90 negroes besides whites, camped a few miles from Dallas on Friday and Saturday. They report a large number behind, and say thousands will move out of that State during the summer and fall. A gentleman traveling from the North, says [...]

The United States Military Telegraph Line at the Junction of the Alexandria, Loudon, and Hampshire R. R. and Aqueduct Road from Georgetown, Alexandria County, Va., Communicating with the Military Department at Washington D. C. Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, July 6, 1861

6th.—No army news to be relied on. We spent our time as usual. Knitting for the soldiers is one chief employment. Several suits of clothes for them are in progress in the house.

–At Washington orders were issued as follows:–”The State of Illinois and the States and territories West of the Mississippi and on this side of the Rocky Mountains, including New Mexico, will, in future, constitute a separate military command, to be known as the Western Department, under the command of Major-General Fremont, of the United States [...]

July 6, 1861 A Chronological History of the Civil War in America1 Fight at Middle York Bridge, near Buckhannon, Va.: 45 Union troops cut through an ambuscade of 200 or 300 rebels. A Chronological History of the Civil War in America by Richard Swainson Fisher, New York, Johnson and Ward, 1863