- 20 Aug 2019 12:49
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August 20, Tuesday
Major General George B. McClellan assumes command of the newly organized Department and the Army of the Potomac for the Union.
A convention at Wheeling, western Virginia, provides for setting up a new pro-Union state to be called Kanawha.
Skirmishing occurs at Hawk’s Nest and Laurel Fork Creek, western Virginia; and at Fish Lake, Missouri. Confederates attack a railroad train near Lookout Station, Missouri.
President Davis writes Joseph E. Johnston at Manassas about complaints in the Confederate Army of improper food and lack of care for the sick. Davis approves a bill increasing Confederate artillery and calling for other military measures.
At Springfield, Missouri, General Sterling Price proclaims the great Southern victory at Wilson’s Creek and says Northern aggressors of Missouri have been defeated.
Major General George B. McClellan assumes command of the newly organized Department and the Army of the Potomac for the Union.
A convention at Wheeling, western Virginia, provides for setting up a new pro-Union state to be called Kanawha.
Skirmishing occurs at Hawk’s Nest and Laurel Fork Creek, western Virginia; and at Fish Lake, Missouri. Confederates attack a railroad train near Lookout Station, Missouri.
President Davis writes Joseph E. Johnston at Manassas about complaints in the Confederate Army of improper food and lack of care for the sick. Davis approves a bill increasing Confederate artillery and calling for other military measures.
At Springfield, Missouri, General Sterling Price proclaims the great Southern victory at Wilson’s Creek and says Northern aggressors of Missouri have been defeated.
Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.
—Edmund Burke
—Edmund Burke