Government - Union
President Lincoln signs into law the Homestead Act, which grants a free plot of 160 acres to actual settlers on the land in the public domain who would occupy it and improve it for five years.
Government - Confederacy
President Davis is disturbed by the impression of governors and others in Arkansas and elsewhere in the Trans-Mississippi that their cause is being neglected.
Military - Confederacy
Virginia
Stomewall Jackson and his troops move rapidly in the Shenandoah Valley. Reaching New Market, he suddenly halts his northweard march and crosses Massanutten Mountain to Luray [home of the famous Luray CAvern] in the eastern or Luray Valley of the Shenandoah. He then turns northward again, along the south fork of the Shenandoah River.
Here he is joined by Richard Ewell and his troops, giving Jackson 16,000 men and 48 guns.
Their intent is to get around Bank's Union troops and perhaps trap them in the main or western portion of the Shenandoah Valley.
Along the Chickahominy, there are minor operations near Bottom's Ridge.
There is raiding on the Virginina Central Railroad at Jackson's River Depot.
South Carolina
Cole's Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, is bombarded by Union troops.
Florida
There is skirmishing at Crooked River.
Tennessee
There is skirmishing at Elk River
New Mexico Territory
Tucson is occupied by Union troops after a small body of Confederates retreats.
Bibliography
The Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865. E.B. Long with Barbara Long, De Capo, 1971
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