Civil War Day-By-Day

August 3, 1861

• Off the coast of Virginia, a Union naval officer ascends in a tethered balloon to look at Confederate-controlled Hampton Roads. It is the first balloon ascent from a ship in naval history

A Chronological History of the Civil War in America¹

• U. S. blockading ?eet threw a few shells into Galveston, Tex.; foreign consuls protest, etc.

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