Union - Government
President Lincoln, cut off the day before from communication with Pope, wires General Burnside at Falmouth for news.
Union - Military
Virginia
In the morning, Pope abandons his now outflanked Union lines on the Rapahannock and sends troops northward toward Manassas and other points.
Confederacy- Military
Virginia
Nearly half of the Confederate army is now between Pope and Washington. However, in Washington, troops under McClellan are disembarking and regrouping after having come north on the James.
Other portions of McClellan's army, which had landed at Aquia Creek, move to aid Pope.
Most of Stonewall Jackson's troops begin destroying stores and facilities at Manassas.
Lee, with Longstreet's corps, which had also left the Rapahannock, marches to support Jackson. Union troops attempt to halt these operations in various skirmishes, but are badly outnumbered. These skirmishes take place at Bull Run Bridge, Kettle Run near Bristoe Station, Buckland Bridge/Broad Run, Salem and Waterford.
Alabama
There is a skirmish at Bridgeport on the Tennessee River.
Tennessee
There are skirmishes at Fort McCook/Battle Creek, Reynold's Station, Richland Creek near Pulaski, near Murfreesboro, at Round Mountain near Woodbury, and near Cumberland Gap.
Most of the fighting is a result of the Confederate Army under General Braxton Bragg undertaking preliminary dispositions for what was to be his fall invasion of Tennessee and Kentucky.
E. Kirby Smith, cooperating with Bragg, moves from northeastern Tennessee toward central Kentucky.
Mississippi
There is a skirmish near Kossuth.
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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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