August 7, 1861
- John Bankhead Magruder burns the village of Hampton, near Fort Monroe. General Benjamin Butler had been planning to use it to house “contraband.” (Butler’s word for slaves)
- The Maryland legislature adjourns without seceding, but votes to reconvene in September
A Chronological History of the Civil War in America1
- Hampton, Va., burned by the rebels.
- C. S. privateer “York” burned by the gun-boat “ Union.”
- A Chronological History of the Civil War in America by Richard Swainson Fisher, New York, Johnson and Ward, 1863