Union - Government
Fed up with waiting for his generals to take their armies into action, President Lincoln issues President's General War Order #1. The President "Ordered that the 22nd of FEbruary, 1862, be the day for a general movement of the Land and Naval forces of the United States against the insurgent forces." HE called for advances from the army about Fort Monroe, the Army of the Potomac, the Army of Western Virginia, the army in Kentucky, the force at Cairo, and the naval force in the Gulf of Mexico.
France
Emperor Louis Napoleon told the French people that the American Civil War "had seriously compromised our commercial interests" but that France would confine herself to hoping for termination of the war as long as the rights of neutrals were respected.
Bibliography
The Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865. E.B. Long with Barbara Long, De Capo, 1971
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