Civilian - Confederacy
Tennessee
Confederates in Memphis hold a mass meeting to rally their people to the defense of the city.
Government - Union
President Lincoln telegraphs Generals McClellan and McDowell, checking carefully on weather and events.
Union - Military
Virginia
Near Richmond, both the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia rest from the previous two days of battles at Seven Pines or Fair Oaks. (Though officially the Army of Northern Virginia since April, it only popularly became known as such since Lee took over.)
Mississippi
Union troops under John Pope follow Bearegard's Confederates, and fight with them briefly at Rienzi.
Arkansas
There is fighting at Galloway's Farm near Jacksonport.
Missouri
There is fighting on the Little Blue in Jackson County.
North Carolina
There is fighting at Tranter's Creek.
Military - Confederacy
Virginia
There is skirmishing at Strasburg and Woodstock as Stonewall Jackson and his troops "escape from the Union pincers."
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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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