Historical Events
Tubman Frees Slaves
Jun 2 Harriet Tubman leads Union guerrillas into Maryland, freeing slaves
Battle of Milliken's Bend
Jun 7 Battle of Milliken's Bend, Lousisiana, Jefferson Davis' home burnt
- Jun 7 Mexico City captured by French troops
- Jun 9 Battle of Brandy Station, Virginia (Fleetwood, Beverly Ford)
Battle of Brice's Crossroads
Jun 10 Battle of Brice's Crossroads, Mississippi; 3,500 troops led by Confederate Nathan Bedford Forrest defeats a Federal force of 8000
- Jun 13 Samuel Butler publishes 1st part of "Erewhon" in Christchurch, New Zealand
- Jun 13 Second Battle of Winchester, Virginia
- Jun 13 Skirmish at Berryville, Virginia
- Jun 14 Battle of 2nd Winchester, Virginia; Confederate force defeats Union army garrison and captures Winchester
- Jun 15 Second Battle at Winchester Virginia, ends in Federal defeat; 1350 casualties
- Jun 17 Battle at Middleburg, Virginia - 1st Rhode Island Cavalry routed trying to take the town
- Jun 17 Battle of Aldie, Confederates fail to drive back Union in Virginia
- Jun 17 Naval Engagement at Warsaw Sound GA-USS Weehawken vs CSS Atlanta
- Jun 17 Travelers Insurance Co of Hartford chartered (1st accident insurer)
- Jun 18 After long neglect, Confederates hurriedly fortify Vicksburg
- Jun 19 Battle at Middleburg, Virginia, with 100+ casualties
- Jun 20 1st bank chartered in US (National Bank of Davenport Iowa)
- Jun 20 Skirmish at Greencastle, Pennsylvania
- Jun 20 West Virginia admitted as 35th US state of the Union
- Jun 21 Battle at Upperville, Virginia, Union forces hold off Confederate advance, 389 causalities
- Jun 23 Tullahoma campaign, Tennessee
- Jun 24 Planning an invasion of Pennsylvania, Lee's army crosses Potomac
- Jun 25 US General George Meade replaces General Hooker to be more aggressive
- Jun 27 Skirmish at Fairfax Courthouse, Virginia
- Jun 28 American Civil War: Second Battle of Donaldsonville, Louisiana - Union forces successfully repel Confederate attack on Fort Butler, on the Mississippi River
- Jun 29 Battle at Westminster or Corbitt's Charge, Maryland: small unit of Delaware cavalry charge Confederate cavalry numbering nearly 6,000, crucially delaying their arrival at Gettysburg
- Jun 29 Confederate General Robert Lee orders his forces to concentrate near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Custer Appointed General
Jun 29 George Armstrong Custer, aged 23, appointed Union Brigadier General
- Jun 29 Very 1st First National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa
- Jun 30 Battles in Hanover, Pennsylvania: 80 casualties
- Jun 30 Dutch colony Suriname counts population of 33,000 slaves
- Jun 30 Skirmish at Sporting Hill, Pennsylvania
Famous Birthdays
- Jun 2 (Paul) Felix Weingartner, Austrian pianist, conductor (Vienna Philharmonic, 1907-27; first to record all nine of Beethoven's symphonies), and composer (Die Dorfschule), born in Zara, Dalmatia, Austria-Hungary (now Zadar, Croatia) (d. 1942)
- Jun 4 Edmond Robert Hubert Regout, Dutch industrialist and politician, born in Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands (d. 1913)
- Jun 5 Arthur Somervell, English composer, born in Windermere, Westmorland (d. 1937)
- Jun 10 Louis Couperus, Dutch poet and writer (Eline Vere), born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1923)
- Jun 11 Eduard David, German politician (Constitution of Weimar), born in Ediger-Eller, Germany (d. 1930)
- Jun 13 Josef Venantius von Woss, Austrian composer, born in Kotor, Montenegro (d. 1943)
- Jun 13 Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, English fashion designer, born in London (d. 1935)
- Jun 16 Paul Antonin Vidal, French composer, born in Toulouse, France (d. 1931)
- Jun 17 Duke Charles Michael of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, born in Oranienbaum, Russian Empire (d. 1934)
- Jun 18 George Essex Evans, Australian poet (d. 1909)
- Jun 21 Max Wolf, German astronomer, pioneer in the field of astrophotography, born in Heidelberg, Germany (d. 1932)
- Jun 25 Émile Francqui, Belgian soldier and diplomat, born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1935)
- Jun 29 James Harvey Robinson, American historian (Ordeal of Civilization), born in Bloomington, Illinois (d. 1936)
Famous Deaths
- Jun 7 Franz Xaver Gruber, Austrian organist and composer (Silent Night), dies at 75
- Jun 9 Benjamin Franklin "Grimes" Davis, Union major, dies in battle at 30
- Jun 17 Isham W Garrott, American attorney and Confederate brigadier general, dies in battle
- Jun 26 Andrew Hull Foote, American Rear Admiral (Union Navy), dies at 56
- Jun 27 Martin E Green, Confederate brigadier general, shot dead at 38
