The Union
The second session of the 37th Congress of the United States begins. The congressmen discuss the military defeats at Ball's Bluff and First Bull Run, over the inaction of the Army of the Potomac during the fall, and the Trent affair (in which a US ship stopped a neutral British ship and removed the two Confederate ambassadors on their way to Europe.)
President Lincoln authorizes General Halleck in the Department of Missouri to suspend the writ of habeus corpus wherever he found it necessary.
Virginia
A skirmish takes place at Annandale, Virginia.
Union Naval Action
Virginia
Federal gunboats engage the confederate steamer Patrick Henry near Newport News, Virginia. The engagement lasts 2 hours, and the Patrick Henry is damaged.
Bibliography
The Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865. E.B. Long with Barbara Long, De Capo, 1971
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