Civil War Day-By-Day

May 28, 1861

• Robert Anderson assumes command of the Department of Kentucky.
• Confederates seize the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from Point of Rocks to Cumberland

A Chronological History of the Civil War in America¹

• Gen. Butler advanced his forces to Newport News.
• Savannah blockaded.

1. A Chronological History of the Civil War in America by Richard Swainson Fisher, New York, Johnson and Ward, 1863