Union - Military
Louisiana
The Federal fleet begins its bombardment of Fort Jackson and Fort St. Philip, on the Mississippi below New Orleans.
Admiral Farragut had little belief in DAvid Dixon Porter's mortars, but had allowed them to try to reduce the forts. The bombardment will continue for 6 days.
Virginia
GEneral Irvin McDowell, marching overland toward McClellan from WAshington, occupied Falmouth near fredericksburg. But he was still between Washington and the Confederate army, despite McClellan's entreaties that McDowell be sent to the Peninsula, where the huge Federal army was doing little to win the siege of Yorktown.
Confederate Military
Virginia
In the Shenandoah Valley, Stonewall Jackson leaves Harrisonburg for Elk Run Valley and Conrad's Store, where the Confederate forces will remain until the end of April, leaving the valley to Bank's troops.
Bibliography
The Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865. E.B. Long with Barbara Long, De Capo, 1971
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