July 31, 1861
- 11 Union officers are submitted to Congress to be promoted to brigadier general. Includes William B. Franklin, Ulysses S. Grant, Samuel Heintzelman, Joseph Hooker, William Tecumseh Sherman, Ulysses S. Grant
A Chronological History of the Civil War in America1
- Missouri State Convention elected Hamilton R. Gamble Governor, Willard P. Hall Lieutenant Governor, and Mordecai Oliver Secretary of State—all Union men.
- A Chronological History of the Civil War in America by Richard Swainson Fisher, New York, Johnson and Ward, 1863