Civil War Day-By-Day

July 9, 1861

A Chronological History of the Civil War in America¹

• Major-General Fremont placed in command of the
  Western Department.
• Legislature of Virginia (Wheeling) elected John S. Carlile and Waitman T. Willey to the U. S. Senate in place of Hunter and Mason.

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