Civil War Day-By-Day

August 2, 1861

A Chronological History of the Civil War in America¹

• War-Tax and Tarif bill passed Congress—500,000 men and $500,000,000 to be raised.
• Battle of Dug Spring, Mo. (Lyon v. McCulloch.)
• Fort Fillmore, New Mexico, traitorously surrendered, with 750 men, by Major Lynde.
• Rebel vessels and stores destroyed in Pocomoke Sound.

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