Union - Government
At a Cabinet meeting in Washington, President Lincoln surprises most of his advisors by reading the first draft of the Emancipation Proclamation. It includes warnings of the consequences of the Confiscation Act, renewed his offer of compensation to loyal states for gradual emancipation, and proposes that as of January 1, 1863, slaves in all states then in rebellion should be free.
After long thought the President had, independent of consultation, decided upon this course. After a discussion, the President followed Secretary of State Seward's suggestion that announcement of the emancipation phases of the proclamation be delayed until the armies achieved a military success.
The Federal War Department issues an order authorizing military and naval commanders within states in rebellion to seize and use for military purposes any real or personal property and to employ Negroes as laborers.
Union - Government/Military
Major GEneral Ambrose Burnside takes command of the Ninth Army Corps of the Union Army.
Union - Military
Virginia
Union troops begin a reconnaisance from Luray to Columbia Bridge and White House Ford.
Union troops also begin a reconnaissance to James City and Madison Court House, and a scout in King William, King and Queen, and Gloucester counties.There is a skirmish at Verdon, and one near Westover.
Confederate - Military
Tennessee
John Hunt Morgan's command arrives at Livingston, after its raid into Kentucky.
A Conferate telegraph operator working for Morgan had been intercepting most of the Union dispatches for the last twelve days, thus giving the Confederates warning of Northern operations.
Mississippi
The confederate ram Arkansas beats off an attack by two Union Vessels at Vicksburg. The Union troops had completed the canal that was to allow Union vessels to make passage around Vicksburg, but the current and low water eoulddefeat that aim.
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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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