Government - Union
President Lincoln talks with General McDowell at Aquia Creek, Virginia in the Fredericksburg area, before returning to Washington.
Military - Confederates
Virginia
Stonewall Jackson and his troops enter Front Royal in the Shenandoah Valley, easily defeating the Union forces of about 800 men under Colonel John R. Kinley, and capturing many of them. The seizure of Front Royal meant that Jackson, with his 16,000 troops, had a splendid opportunity to cut off Banks' main Union force, which was pulling north on the valley pike to the northwest of Front Royal.
The goal was to prevent Banks from reaching Winchester and if possible to destroy him.
Military - Union
Virginia
There is a Union reconnaissance from Bottom's Bridge to Turkey Island Creek Bridge and toward Richmond.
There is skirmishing at Mechanicsville, Hogan's, and Buckton Station.
Western Virginia
There is fighting at Lewisburg.
New Mexico Territory
There is fighting near Fort Craig.
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BibliographyThe Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865. E.B. Long with Barbara Long, De Capo, 1971
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