Government - Union
President Lincoln wires to McClellan that Banks is apparently safe at Williamsport on the Potomac and asks: "What impression have you, as to entrenchments-works-for you to contend with in front of Richmond? Can you get near enough to throw shells into the city?
Union - Military
Virginia
As Stonewall Jackson's men occupy Winchester, and prepare to continue north to Harper's Ferry, General Banks keeps pulling back what's left of his troops. Fremont and McDowell's troops march to intercept Jackson's line of retreat.
McClellan remains inactive along the Chickahominy near Richmond, even as Lincoln's communicays hint rather broadly that he should be doing something.
Western Virginia
There is a skirmish near Franklin.
Arkansas
There is a skirmish at Calico Rock.
Missouri
There is a skirmish at Crow's Station near Licking
Mississippi
There is a skirmish at Grand Gulf.
Military - Confederacy
The Confederates extend their Trans-Mississippi Department to include Arkansas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, west Louisiana and Texas.
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Bibliography
The Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865. E.B. Long with Barbara Long, De Capo, 1971
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