Union - Government
The British minister to the United States, Lord Lyons, has an informal meeting with Secretary of State Seward, and informs him that the British government will make a formal request (on December 23) for the release of the Southern commissioners Mason and Slidell. The US government is given seven days to comply.
Maryland
There is a skirmish at Point of Rocks, Maryland.
BibliographyThe Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865. E.B. Long with Barbara Long, De Capo, 1971
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