June 17, 1861
- Battle of Vienna, Virginia.
- Nathaniel Lyons captures Boonville
- Battle of Booneville, Mo.: rebels under Price and Jackson routed by Gen. Lyon.
- Wheeling Convention approves the “Declaration of Rights” which characterizes the government in Richmond, which seceded from the union, as illegitimate and illegal. The document also calls for the reorganization of the government of Virginia, as all state offices had been abandoned with the secession of the State from the Union
A Chronological History of the Civil War in America1
- Surprise at Vienna, Va.-eight Union and six rebel soldiers killed.
- Gen. Patterson crossed the Potomac at Williamsport
- A Chronological History of the Civil War in America by Richard Swainson Fisher, New York, Johnson and Ward, 1863