Wednesday, June 24, 1863
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| Expedition from: | Batesville, AR | May 30 - February 3, 1864 | Capture of: | Bayou Boeuf Crossing, LA | June 24, 1863 | Action: | Beach Grove, TN | June 24 - 27, 1863 | Skirmish: | Big Spring Branch, TN | June 24, 1863 | Capture of: | Boeuf Bayou Crossing, LA | June 24, 1863 | Skirmish: | Bradyville, TN | June 24, 1863 | Raid: | Brookhaven, MS | June 23 - 26, 1863 | Skirmish: | Chacahoula, Station, LA | June 24, 1863 | Skirmish: | Christiana, TN | June 24, 1863 | Expedition to: | Deer Creek, MS | June 1863 | Campaign: | Dix's Peninsula, ? | June 24 - July 7, 1863 | Campaign: | Gettysburg, PA | June 3 - August 11, 1863 | Skirmish: | Haymarket, VA | June 21 - 25, 1863 | Actions: | Hoover's Gap, TN | June 24 - 26, 1863 | Expedition from: | La Grange, TN | June 16 - 24, 1863 | Skirmish: | Lake Providence, LA | June 24, 1863 | Actions: | Liberty Gap, TN | June 22 - 24, 1863 | Actions: | Liberty Gap, TN | June 24 - 27, 1863 | Skirmish: | Manchester, TN | June 24, 1863 | Campaign: | Middle Tennessee | June 23 - July 7, 1863 | Skirmish: | Middleburg, VA | June 24, 1863 | Action: | Middleton, TN | June 24, 1863 | Expedition to: | Panola, MS | June 16 - 24, 1863 | Campaign: | Peninsula, VA | June 24 - July 7, 1863 | Siege: | Port Hudson, LA | May 21 - July 8, 1863 | Skirmish: | Sharpsburg, MD | June 24, 1863 | Expedition: | Sioux Expedition, Dakota Territory | June 16 - September 13, 1863 | Expedition against: | Snake Indians, Idaho Territory | May 4 - October 26, 1863 | Expedition to: | South Anna Bridge, VA | June 23 - 28, 1863 | Campaign: | Tullahoma, TN | June 23 - July 7, 1863 | Siege: | Vicksburg, MS | May 18 - July 4, 1863 | Operation: | Vicksburg, MS | January 20 - July 4, 1863 | Expedition from: | Yorktown, VA | June 24 - 28, 1863 |
| Appointment: | Brigadier General Benjamin Franklin Kelley, USA, assumes command of the newly created Federal Department of West Virginia | Department Created: | The Federal Department of West Virginia is created |
(Source: Compendium of the War of the Rebellion Vol. I, p. 660-991. Frederick H. Dyer; The Chronological Tracking Of The American Civil War Per The Offical Records Of The War of the Rebellion pp. 1-336. Ronald A. Mosocco.)
Naval Events:
Under Commander Pierce Crosby, gunboats Commodore Barney, Commodore Morris, Western World, and Morse, with Army gunboats Smith Briggs and Jesup, escorted and covered an Army landing at White House on the Pamunkey River, Virginia. Arriving on the 26th, Crosby reported that he "found all quiet on the river," but stationed the gunboats at White House and Jesup at West Point, with instructions for two of his ships to "run [daily] from White House to West Point to protect the army transports and examine the banks of the river to discover signs of the enemy should they be near. . . ." A naval landing party at White House destroyed rails and a turntable inside an earthwork on which the Confederates intended to place a railroad car mounting a heavy gun.(Source: Civil War Naval Chronology 1861-1865. pp. I:1-41; II:1-117; III:1-170; IV:1-152; V:1-134. 1971: Naval History Division, Navy Department.)Rear Admiral Dahlgren was detached from duty at the Washington Navy Yard and as Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance and ordered to relieve Rear Admiral Du Pont at Port Royal in command of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron. Originally, the Navy Department ordered Rear Admiral Foote to the Blockading Squadron, but the hero of the western waters suffered a relapse from his long illness occasioned by the wound sustained at Fort Donelson and was unable to accept the command.
Brigadier General A. W. Ellet, commanding the Marine Brigade, reported to Rear Admiral Porter on his observations of the continued naval bombardment of Vicksburg: "Your mortars are doing good work this morning. Every shell is thrown into the city, or bursts immediately over it.
C.S.S. Tacony, commanded by Lieutenant Read, captured ship Shatemuc, from Liverpool to Boston with a large number of emigrants on board. Read bonded her for $150,000. Tacony later captured fishing schooner Archer. "As there were now a number of the enemy's gunboats in search of the Tacony," Read wrote, "and our howitzer ammunition being all expended, I concluded to destroy the Tacony, and with the schooner Archer to proceed along the coast with the view of burning the shipping in some exposed harbor, or of cutting out a steamer." Therefore, the next morning Read, applied the torch to the Tacony and stood in for the New England coast with Archer.
U.S.S. Sumpter, commanded by Acting Lieutenant Peter Hays, collided with transport steamer General Meigs in heavy mist near Hampton Roads and sank.
Additional Information:
The Battle of Vicksburg, Mississippi. (MS011) (Grant's Operations Against Vicksburg [March-July 1863]).
The Battle of Port Hudson, Louisiana. (LA010) (Siege of Port Hudson [May-July 1863]).
The Battle of Hoover's Gap, Tennessee. (TN017) (Tullahoma or Middle Tennessee Campaign [June 1863]).
(Source: Civil War Sites Advisory Commission Report: Battle Summaries. National Park Service. In The Civil War Battlefield Guide, 2nd ed., 1998. Edited by Frances H. Kennedy.)