Birthdays

Jefferson Finis Davis
Turns 53 on this date

Charles Kinnaird Graham
Turns 37 on this date

Martin Edwin Green
Turns 46 on this date

Edson Baldwin Olds
Turns 59 on this date

Otho French Strahl
Turns 30 on this date
Events
Battles/Soldiers | After Philippi, nineteen years old James Edward Hanger becomes the first amputee of the Civil War | 06/03/1861 |
Battles/Soldiers | In western forces, Union and Confederate forces fight the first planned engagement of the war at Philippi | 06/03/1861 |
Personal | Stephen A. Douglas dies at his home in Chicago, Illinois | 06/03/1861 |
Documents
Newspaper | New York Times, “One of their Errors,” June 3, 1861 | 06/03/1861 |