Union - Military
Louisiana
Admiral Farragut, his fleet below the forts on the Mississippi, decides that because the mortar bombardment has not reduced the forts, and because land operations were not advisable because of the low-lying, swampy, waterway-cut nature of the geography, he would attempt to bypass the forts and head for New Orleans itself, on the morrow.
North Carolina.
Union naval forces successfully block the Chesapeake and Albermarle CAnal, shutting off an important small-boat waterway.
Alabama
There is a skirmish at Brridgeport.
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Bibliography
The Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865. E.B. Long with Barbara Long, De Capo, 1971
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