Civil War Day-By-Day

August 18, 1861

A Chronological History of the Civil War in America¹

• Gen. Wool took command of Fortress Monroe. Skirmishes at Charleston, Mo.
• Sentinel office at Easton, Pa., destroyed by a mob—cause, secession proclivities.

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