Thursday August 1, 1861
General Robert E. Lee, C.S.A.
General Robert E. Lee, C.S.A. Army, and adviser to President Davis, arrived in western Virginia on an uncertain mission to coordinate an inspect the various Confederate force there. However, the mission soon developed into his taking command, replacing W. W. Loring, who had succeeded slain Gen. Garnett.
Way to the southwest in New Mexico Territory, John R. Baylor, with his “buffalo hunters” who were really Confederate soldiers, proclaimed in the name of the Confederacy the possession of all New Mexico and Arizona south of the 34th parallel. Pro-unionists of New Mexico, however, considered it more of a “Texas invasion.” There was a slight skirmish at Endina, Mo. Brazil recognized the Confederate States of America as a belligerent.
President Davis wrote from Richmond to Gen. Joseph E. Johnston at Manassas on military matters and said, “We must be prompt to avail ourselves of the weakness resulting” from the moral effect produced by the Bull Run defeat of the Federals. The U.S. Senate debated a bill to suppress insurrection and sedition. The Onandaga County, N.Y. , Cavalry, eighty strong, left for war with a young bride, Mrs. Cook, accompanying her husband as “daughter of the regiment.” President Lincoln appointed Gustavus Vasa Fox Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Fox had been chief clerk of the department and already had a prominent role in the administration of thing naval.
[Source: Long, E.B. with Barbara Long, The Civil War Day by Day: An Almanac 1861-1865]
