Civil War Day-By-Day

July 17, 1861

• The U. S. begins issuing demand notes commonly called “Greenbacks”
• Battle of Scary Creek (Wikipedia)

A Chronological History of the Civil War in America¹

• Union army continued their march toward Fairfax
  Court House.
• Skirmish at Fulton, Mo.

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