11 June 1862: Tuesday

Confederates - Government
Jefferson Davis writes to his wife of his worry over the "prejudice in our Army against Labor." As for the enemy, he stated, "If we succeed in rendering his works useless to him and compel him to meet us on the field, I have much confidence in our ability to give him a complete defeat, and then it may be possible to teach him the pains of invasion and to feed our Army on his territory."

Union - Military
Virginia
General Fremont pulls back from the Port Republic area to Mount Jackson in the Shenandoah, under orders from Washington.

Mississippi
There is a skirmish near Boonesville, not far from Corinth.

Kentucky
There is a skirmish at Monterey.

Missouri
There are skirmishes at Cassville, Deep Water and Pink Hill.

Tennessee
In the mountains there is a skirmish at Big Creek Gap.

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Bibliography
The Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865. E.B. Long with Barbara Long, De Capo, 1971