Following the American Civil War Sesquicentennial with day by day writings of the time, currently 1863.

July 2.—The army of the Potomac, under the command of General McClellan, in their retreat from before Richmond, this day reached Harrison’s Bar, on the James River, Va.—President Lincoln approved and signed the Pacific Railroad and internal tax bills.

—A Scouting party of Union troops proceeded from Catlett’s Station to Warrenton, Va., and on reaching that place found it occupied by five hundred rebel cavalry.

—Governor Morgan, of New-York, issued a proclamation calling upon the citizens of the State for their quota of troops, to serve for three years or during the war, under the call of the President for three hundred thousand men.—At Clarendon, Ark., a party of Texas cavalry succeeded in capturing three men and six horses belonging to the National force near that place.

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