The Philadelphia press reported the longest train of railroad cars ever to enter the city arrived carrying 2,400 Confederate prisoners of war.  They were escorted for imprisonment at Fort Delaware in the Delaware River below Wilmington.  (By John Osborne) 

 In response to the Confederate advances in Maryland and Pennsylvania, the city council of Baltimore appropriated $100,000 for the construction of barricades around the city.  On the morning of June 20, 1863, police in the city impressed and organized able-bodied African-American men and marched them out in gangs of forty to begin the work. Later that night, others were forcibly recruited, including some white men, to replace them and the work of a makeshift system of barricades was completed the next day.  (By John Osborne)

Colonel James Montgomery, experienced in Kansas before the war in dealing ruthlessly with the enemy, led his force of African-American infantry, made up of his own 2nd South Carolina and Colonel Shaw's 54th Massachusetts, against Confederate installations along the Altamaha River in coastal Georgia. He carried out the total destruction of the town of Darien, an act strongly objected to by the young Bostonian Robert Shaw. (By John Osborne)

Confederate sailors under James Duke boarded the Union steam tug Boston by ruse and quickly overpowered the crew as she was towing the Jenny Lind  near the Pass á la Outre Lighthouse.  They cut loose the tow and made for Mobile, Alabama.  On the way, they met the loaded New York barks Lennox and Texana, captured and burned them. The Boston arrived safely in Mobile with seventeen prisoners on June 11, 1863. (By John Osborne)