Union - Government
President Lincoln receives a deputation of free Negroes at the White House. One of his comments: "But for your race among us there could not be war...It is better for us both, therefore, to be separated. He advocated colonization in Central America and promised them help in carrying out the project.
Union - Military
Virginia
Two army corps of McClellan's Army of the Potomac, the Third and the Fifth, move from Harrison's Landing to Aquia Creek, arriving there on the 15th.
North Carolina
A reconnaissance takes place from Newport to Swansborough.
Missouri
There is a skirmish at Barry.
Tennessee
There is a skirmish at Mount Pleasant.
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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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