Thursday, June 25, 1863
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| Expedition from: | Batesville, AR | May 30 - February 3, 1864 | Action: | Beach Grove, TN | June 24 - 27, 1863 | Raid: | Brookhaven, MS | June 23 - 26, 1863 | Expedition to: | Deer Creek, MS | June 1863 | Campaign: | Dix's Peninsula, ? | June 24 - July 7, 1863 | Skirmish: | Ellisville, MS | June 25, 1863 | Skirmish: | Fosterville, TN | June 25, 1863 | Campaign: | Gettysburg, PA | June 3 - August 11, 1863 | Expedition to: | Greenville, MS | June 25 - July 1, 1863 | Skirmish: | Guy's Gap, TN | June 25, 1863 | Skirmish: | Haymarket, VA | June 21 - 25, 1863 | Actions: | Hoover's Gap, TN | June 24 - 26, 1863 | Actions: | Liberty Gap, TN | June 24 - 27, 1863 | Skirmish: | Madison, AR | June 25, 1863 | Skirmish: | McConnellsburg, PA | June 25, 1863 | Campaign: | Middle Tennessee | June 23 - July 7, 1863 | Skirmish: | Middleburg, VA | June 25, 1863 | Skirmish: | Milliken's Bend, LA | June 25, 1863 | Campaign: | Peninsula, VA | June 24 - July 7, 1863 | Siege: | Port Hudson, LA | May 21 - July 8, 1863 | Skirmish: | Rocky Creek, MS | June 25, 1863 | Action: | Shelbyville, TN | June 25, 1863 | Expedition: | Sioux Expedition, Dakota Territory | June 16 - September 13, 1863 | Expedition against: | Snake Indians, Idaho Territory | May 4 - October 26, 1863 | Expedition from: | Snyder's Bluff, MS | June 25 - July 1, 1863 | Expedition to: | South Anna Bridge, VA | June 23 - 28, 1863 | Skirmish: | Thoroughfare Gap, VA | June 25, 1863 | Campaign: | Tullahoma, TN | June 23 - July 7, 1863 | Operation: | Vicksburg, MS | January 20 - July 4, 1863 | Siege: | Vicksburg, MS | May 18 - July 4, 1863 | Expedition from: | Yorktown, VA | June 24 - 28, 1863 |
| Appointment: | George Washington Custis Lee, CSA, to Brigadier General | Appointment: | Walter Chiles Witaker, USA, to Brigadier General |
(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 Du Pont, unaware that Dahlgren had been ordered to relieve him in command of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, wrote in these terms of Rear Admiral Foote: ". . . I infer he is very ill, and could hardly be fit to come for some time to this situation even if he recovers. I trust God he will, for I think he can ill be spared. I always thought he represented the best traits of the New England character with its best shade of puritanism--a sort of Northern Stonewall Jackson, without quite his intellect and judgment, but equal pluck and devotion."
C.S.S. Georgia, commanded by Lieutenant W. L. Maury, captured ship Constitution bound from Philadelphia to Shanghai with cargo of coal.
Boats from U.S.S. Crusader, commanded by Acting Master Roland F. Coffin, on a reconnaissance of Pepper Creek, near New Point Comfort, Virginia, to determine if an armed boat was being outfitted for "preying on the commerce of Chesapeake Bay" was fired on by a Confederate party. In retaliation Master Coffin burned several houses in the area one belonging to "a noted rebel and blockade runner named Kerwan."
Lieutenant Commander English, U.S.S. Sagamore, reported the capture of blockade running British schooner Frolic off Crystal River, Florida, with cargo of cotton and turpentine, bound for Havana.
U.S.S. Santiago De Cuba, Commander Wyman, took steamer Britannia off Palmetto Point, Eleuthera Island, with cargo of cotton.
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]).
Confederate Brigadier General James Ewell Brown "J. E. B." Stuart, CSA, leaves on his third ride around the Army of the Potomac, leaving General Robert E. Lee without a scouting force of any major size in the immediate vicinity of his Army of Northern Virginia. Stuart's plan is to screen Lee's advance into Pennsylvania. The Union Army of the Potomac crosses the Potomac River to check General Lee's move northward.
The mine at Vicksburg, Mississippi, is exploded, but this fails to breach the Confederate defenses sufficiently to make a Federal attack succeed.
(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; A Concise Encyclopedia of the Civil War, p. 203-221. Henry E. Simmons 1965; The Chronological Tracking Of The American Civil War Per The Offical Records Of The War of the Rebellion pp. 1-336. Ronald A. Mosocco.)