Highlights of the August 1861 Edition:
- Proclamation by Lincoln / Confiscation Act
- Burning of Hampton
- Battle of Wilson's Creek / Springfield
- Brig. Gen. Lyon killed
- McCulloch reported killed
- McCulloch & Price feud starts, leading to rise of Van Dorn
- McClellan assumes command
- Call for creation of the state of Kanawha
- Battle of Cross Lanes / Summerville
- Landing at Cape Hatteras
- Sandwich Islands (Hawaii)
- Official Reports of Bull Run / Manassas
- McDowell's Official Report on Bull Run
- Fremont declares martial law in Missouri
- Cooper, Beauregard, Lee, A.S. Johnston, and J.E. Johnston promoted to full general
- Baylor claims the Mesilla Valley and Arizona for the Confederacy and declares Mesilla the capitol
- Parson Brownlow and the Knoxville Whig
- General Ambrose Burnside
- Offices of Bangor Daily Union ransacked by mob
- New taxes and debate over Federal debt
- 19th: New Publications: Dicken's Great Expectations
