11 May, 1862: Sunday

Union - government
President Lincoln returns to Washington. He is informed of the scuttling of the Virginia on the way. He wires to General Halleck, "Norfolk is in our possession, Merrimac [the Virginia] is blown up, & Monitor & other boats going up James River to Richmond. Be very sure to sustain no reversal in your departmernt."

Union - military
Mississippi
Halleck "was being quite sure, as his advance upon Corinth had slowed so drastically that it was hardly distuinguishable from a seige."

Tennessee
There is a skirmish at Pulaski.

Kentucky
There is a skirmish at Cave City

Western Virginia
There is a skirmish at Princeton

Virginia
There is a skirmish on the Bowling Green Road, near Fredericksburg.





Confederates - Military
The CSS Virginia, trapped in Virginia as it was unfit for ocean service, is sccuttled off Norfolk.



Bibliography
The Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865. E.B. Long with Barbara Long, De Capo, 1971