–An engagement took place at Aquia Creek, Va., to-day. Four vessels of the Potomac flotilla opened the attack by firing shot and shell at a new battery which had been erected by the rebels. Several of the shells fell and exploded into a camp of rebels near the battery. The rebels returned the fire with [...]

July 29, 1861 A Chronological History of the Civil War in America1 Robert Toombs, of Georgia, resigned his position as C. S. Secretary of State, and was succeeded by Robert M. T. Hunter,of Virginia. A Chronological History of the Civil War in America by Richard Swainson Fisher, New York, Johnson and Ward, 1863