Civilian - Union
Massachusetts
In Boston, bells which had been contributed by Southern churches and individuals to be cast into cannon were sold at auction. General Butler had confiscated them at New Orleans.
Military - Union
Virginia
General Halleck ordered General McClellan to remove his sick and wounded from Harrison's Landing. The intention was to eventually move the whole army from the James toward Washington and northern Virginia.
Military - Confederacy
Major General Theophilius Holmes assumes command of the Trans-Mississippi Department.
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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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