Government - Confederate
The Confederate Senate at Richmond passes a bill calling for the conscription of troops. Many Confederates opposed the move bitterly. believing it an infringements of liberties, while others recognized that, with its limited manpower, the South must raise armies somehow.
Government - Union
In Washington, President Lincoln and his CAbinet members discussed McClellan's activity - or lack of it - at Yorktown on the Peninsula. Mr. Lincoln tried to explain to his general that he had held back troops because he discovered that insufficient men had been left around WAshington. The president wondered at the discrepancy between McClellan's reports of the size of his army and that of the Secretary of WAr. Several times urging him to strike, McClellan concluded, "But you must act!"
Military - Union
Florida
Union troops evacuate Jacksonville, Florida.
Missouri
There is a skirmish at Jackson, Missouri, and minor scouting expeditions in Misssouri.
Bibliography
The Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865. E.B. Long with Barbara Long, De Capo, 1971
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