Government - Confederacy
In Richmond, President Davis writes General Albert Sidney Johnson?: "We have suffered great anxiety because of recent events in Kentucky and Tennessee." The President was concerned about the adverse public reaction and blame that was being heaped on Johnston. Davis added: "I suppose the Tenn. or Mississippi River will be the object of the enemy's next campaign, and I trust you will be able to concentrate a force which will defeat ither attempt."
Union - Military
VirginiaUnion soldiers marched into Winchester, Virginia, "close on the heels" of Stonewall Jackson's Confederates, who were moving southward up the Shenandoah Valley.
Florida
Union naval forces under Lieutenant T. H. Stevens temporarily occupied Jacksonville, Florida.
Kansas
There is a skirmish near Aubrey.
North Carolina
A combined Union army-navy expedition sails from Roanoke Island, North CArolina to near the mouth of the Neuse River below New Berne.
Bibliography
The Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865. E.B. Long with Barbara Long, De Capo, 1971
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