Union military - Army
Virginia
In northern Virginia there was no fighting. Aware of the approaching Uion army under McClellan, General Joseph E. Johnston's Confederates pulled out of Centreville, and moved toward the Rapahhanock River. (The retreat would continue for two more days.)
The Union army marched on, substantially outnumbering the Confederates, but found only unoccupied Confederate camps camps for a brief time, before returning to Alexandria. They found scant supplie, abandoned huts and fortifications, some of them still mounting fake wooden guns.
There is skirmishing at Sangster's Station, Virginia, as Union troops from Grant's army led by Charles Ferguson Smith, probe towards Pursy Tennessee.
Tennessee
There is skirmishing near Nashville on the Granny White Pike.
Union troops of Grant's army, led by CF Smith, probe toward Purdy, Tennessee, in operations from Crump's Landing near Savannah on the Tennessee River.
Missouri
There is skirmishing at Big Creek and Mountain Grove, Missouri.
Union military - Naval
Virginia
About nine o'clock in the morning, the iron-built USSS Monitor with a single revolving turret housing two eleven-inch Dahlgren guns, sailed out to battle the CSS Virginia. (The Monitor was all iron, the Virginia was iron clad - iron - plating over the wooden hull.)
The battle lasted all day. Neither ship could gain the advantage. Lt. John Worden, commander of the Monitor, received a head wound and Lt. Samuel Green took over him. The remaining Union fleet could only stand by and watch as the two modern ships fought to a standstill. Finally, the Virginia retreated to Norfolk Harbor.
Bibliography
The Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865. E.B. Long with Barbara Long, De Capo, 1971
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