Military Government - Union
Louisiana
In New Orleans, Major General Butler suspends publication of the New Orleans Bee. The Delta is taken over by Union authorities.
Virginia
General McClellan establishes his personal headquarters at White House, a family property of the Lees, on the Pamunkey River.
Government - Confederacy
President Davis writes to his wife of the defeat of the Union squadron at Drewry's Bluff, adding: "The panic here has subsided and with increasing confidence there has arisen a desire to see the city destroyed rather than surrendered. He added, "The great temporal object is to secure our independence and they who engage in strife for personal or party aggrandisement, deserve contemptuous forgetfulness."
Bibliography
The Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865. E.B. Long with Barbara Long, De Capo, 1971
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