Civil War Day-By-Day

June 27, 1861

• Baltimore Marshal of Police George Proctor Kane arrested in Baltimore on the charge of treason, and sent to Fort McHenry.

A Chronological History of the Civil War in America¹

• Engagement between U. S. gun-boats Freeborn and Pawnee and the rebel batteries at Matthias Point, Va. : Capt. Ward, commander of the Potomac flotilla, killed.

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