JULY 5TH
The U.S. Navy Department is reorganized into eight Bureaus: Yards and Docks, Equipment and Recruiting, Navigation, Ordnance, Construction and Repair, Steam Engineering, Provisions and Clothing, and Medicine and Surgery. This was pushed through Congress by Senator Grimes of Iowa who was a big supporter of seapower.
JULY 6TH
Commodore Wilkes ordered to command the James River Flotilla as a division of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron.
JULY 7TH
President Lincoln and military party depart Washington on board the USS Ariel to confer with Gen. McClellan at Harrison's Landing, Virginia, in the aftermath of the defeat at the Seven Days Battles.
JULY 9TH
Gen. Lee wrote Confederate President Davis that he was unable to attack Union troops because of the presence of Union gunboats.
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