June

• 6/1/1792 - Kentucky becomes the 15th State, a slave state
  6/1/1862 - Lee appointed Commander of Army in Virginia
  6/1/1864 - Battle of Cold Harbor

• 6/2/1815 - Gen. Philip Kearny, US, born
  6/2/1864 - Battle of Cold Harbor

• 6/3/1808 - Jefferson Davis born
  6/3/1863 - Lee begins a second invasion of the North from Fredericksburg
  6/3/1864 - Battle of Cold Harbor; U.S. Congress passes a National Banking Act, providing for a national currency

• 6/4/1862 - Confederates evacuate Fort Pillow, Tennessee

• 6/5/1863 - Stuart hosts a Grand Review of his Cavalry

• 6/6/1862 - Memphis Surrenders

• 6/8/1861 - Tennessee formally secedes
  6/8/1862 - Jackson defeats the Federals at the Battle of Cross Keys, and Port Republic, Virginia

• 6/9/1863 - Battle of Brandy Station

• 6/10/1864 - Federals lose at Brice's crossroads, Mississippi

• 6/12/1862 - Stuart begins his ride around McClellan

• 6/14/1864 - FLAG DAY

• 6/16/1858 - Republicans choose Abraham Lincoln as challenger for Stephen Douglas' Senate seat
  6/16/1864 - Petersburg Campaign begins

• 6/17/1861 - Thaddeus Lowe demonstrates Hot Air Balloon

• 6/18/1861 - FATHER'S DAY 
  6/18/1864 - Grant begins siege of Petersburg, Virginia

• 6/19/1864 - Confederate Raider Alabama is sunk by a United States warship off Cherbourg, France

• 6/23/1865 - LAST FORMAL CONFEDERATE SURRENDER

• 6/25/1862 - Seven Days Campaign begins, with Federal retreat at Oak Grove, Mechanicsville, Gaines Mill, Savage Station, White
                     Oak Swamp, Malvern Hill, Virginia

• 6/26/1864 - Stoneman begins Atlanta raid

• 6/27/1864 - Battle of Kennesaw Mountain

• 6/28/1863 - Confederates seize York, Pennsylvania

• 6/30/1864 - Gen. Early marches toward Washington, D.C.