June 30th to July 6th
June 30th – Nathaniel Lyon arrives in Springfield, ILL with two regiments from Missouri. He gathers regiments from Illinois and prepares for next leg of journey to Dayton, OH. to Sherman is in Ft. Monroe, Franklin in Harper’s Ferry, a significant garrison in Washington DC is awaiting Lyon and his westerners. Other western forces gather in Dayton, OH by McClellan.
To promote recruitment, Lincoln raises the bounty (volunteer bonus) for volunteers.
June 30th to July 6 – Nathaniel Lyon travels by train to Dayton, OH with Illinois and Missouri regulars and volunteers. Troops from all other Midwestern states have concentrated in Dayton, OH per George McClellan. There are 45,000 troops gathered in Dayton after Lyon arrives.
Benjamin Franklin at Harper’s Ferry has 25,000 troops is on defensive.
Sherman is at Fort Monroe has 20,000 troops.
The garrison of Washington has 22,000 troops under Samual Heintzleman. Half of the troops are in Washington and half are in Alexandria where Heintzleman's HQ is located.
Confederate troops movements are in the Sheandoah Valley and in the James peninsula.
Beauregard (14,000 troops) and Joe Johnston (21,000 troops) link up in Strasburg, VA with 35,000 troops.
John McGruder with 10,000 troops foolishly attacks Ft. Monroe. Sherman easily repulses the attack. The intensity of the fighting is light as both sides feel each other out. Sherman by having twice as many troops easily repulses the attack. Sherman takes this as a learning experience, he should have upped the intensity when he had the numerical superiority. McGruder made a mistake by attacking the fort and Sherman did not capitalize on it.
Other Confederate troops are 4000 in Fredricksburg, 4000 in Richmond, and 4000 at Norfolk. Raleigh, NC and Charleston, SC have significant troop numbers as well.
The Army of Virginia is created with Robert E. Lee as the commanding general. The army consists of McGruder’s command, the troops in Fredricksburg, Richmond, and Norfolk. Beauregard and Johnston in the valley are independent of Lee at this point.
Out west - The Union has regiments in Springfield and Rolla, Missouri and in Cairo, ILL and Evanston, Ind. Scott is gambling that the Confederates will not advance into Kentucky as he shifts troops to the East.
Confederate troops are centered in Little Rock, Ark, Nashville, Tennessee under A. S. Johnston and in northern Mississippi under Leonidas Polk. Polk begins move to Memphis, TN.
Other Confederate troops in the West are protect the Gulf and Georgia ports (New Orleans, Mobile, Pensacola, Savannah).
Lincoln calls for more volunteers for three year enlistments.