Union - Government
President Lincoln, continuing his attempt to deal with the slavery issue while still favoring compensated emancipation on a state-control basis, in a message to Congress, asked for an act to compensate "any State which may abolish slavery with its limits."
An act setting up a system of pensions for men disabled in service since the start of the war and for next of kin in case of death is signed into law.
Twenty border-state representatives and senators reply that they opposed Lincoln's plan of compensated emancipated presented to them on July 12.
The US Senate passes passes a bill granting secession of Western Virginia from Virginia and creating the new state.
Government - Confederacy
Confederate Adjutant General Samuel Cooper puts the conscription law into stricter operation.
Union - Military
Virginia
Union General John Pope moves his newly created Army of Virginia between the Confederates and Washington in order to draw the pressure from McClellan on the Peninsula. Then he issued an address to his troops calling for offensive action and an advance against the enemy: "I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies."
Indian Territory
A Union reconnaissance operates from 14-17 July, from Grand River to Fort Gibson, Tahlequah, and Park Hill.
Confederate - Military
Kentucky
John Hunt Morgan and his raiders, raid the area around Cynthians.
Arkansas
There are skirmishes near Batesville and HElena.
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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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