Civil War Day-By-Day

August 1, 1861

• Tennessee votes to adopt the Constitution of the Confederate States of America

A Chronological History of the Civil War in America¹

• Gen. McClellan began the reorganization of the Army of the Potomac.
• Rebels left Harper’s Ferry and fell back on Leesburg.
• C. S. privateer “Petrel” sunk by the “St. Lawrence”—crew captured.

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