” 11—Skirmish at Romney. Wheeling Convention meets.
” 14—Harper’s Ferry evacuated and burnt by Southern forces.
” 15—Confederate privateer, Savannah, brought, a prize, to New York.
” 17—Wheeling Convention of Unionists determine to make West Virginia an independent State.
” 18—Battle of Booneville, Mo. Gen. Lyon defeats Confederate Gen. Price.
” 20—At Cole Camp, Mo., Union men defeated; at Liberty, Mo., Southerners overcome.
” 23—Forty-eight locomotives of Baltimore and Ohio R. R. destroyed by Southern forces; value, $400,000.
” 26—President Lincoln recognizes the Wheeling government as that of Virginia.
” 29—Southern privateer, Sumter, escapes through blockade at New Orleans.
July 2—Battle near Martinsburg, Va., Gen. Patterson, Union, and Gen. Jackson, Confederate.