Union - Government
President Lincoln discovers that fewer than 20,000 troops had been left by General McClellan to defend Washington, despite his instructions to the contrary. He instructs Secretary of War Stanton to retain one corps which was under orders to go to McClellan on the Peninsula. McDowell's corps was kept back, and immediately McClellan protested that he had been shortchanged - although he soon had 1000,000 troops on the Peninsula.
In addition, Lincoln ordered that General McClellan begin his forward movement from his new base at once.
The US Senate voted to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, 29 to 14.
Union - Military
Union gunboats carry out a reconnaissance from Savannah, Tennessee to Eastport, Mississippi and to Chickasaw, Alabama.
Despite occasional light action, General Grant's encamped force was generally unaware of the approaching Confederates.
Mississippi
Union troops launch a two-day expedition from Ship Island to Biloxi and Pass Christian, Mississippi.
Florida
Union seamen accept the surrender of Apalachicola, Florida.
Confederacy - Military
Tennessee
The Confederate army under Albert Sidney Johnston sets out from Corinth, Mississippi toward the Tennessee River, for its attack on General Grant's army near Pittsburg Landing and Shiloh Church, Tennessee.
However, the march was delayed for a variety of reasons, so that there was no chance to launch the attach on the 4th as originally planned.
Bibliography
The Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865. E.B. Long with Barbara Long, De Capo, 1971
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