Union - Government
Washington DC
The War Department orders the imprisonment of Malcom Ives, a correspondent of the New York Herald, on spying charges.
Brigadier Eneral Charles P. Stone is arrested and sent to Fort Lafayette in New York Harbor without specific charges. He had been the Union commander at the Battle of Ball's Bluff in the fall of 1861, and allegedly had consorted with the enemy. (Never brought to trial or officially charged, he will be releaased on August 16, 1862. The case was a cause ceebre in its day.)
Confederate - Military
Tennessee
At Fort Donelson, on the Cumberland River, Brigadier general Gideon J. Pillow assumes command of the forces at Fort Donelson.
Union-Military
North Carolina
At Roanoke Island, cleanup operations continue by the victorious Union soldiers.
Missouri
A light skirmish occurs at Marshfield.
Bibliography
The Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865. E.B. Long with Barbara Long, De Capo, 1971
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