Union – Government/Military
Reviews and conferences continue at McClellan’s headquarters in Maryland between the President and McClellan. Lincoln comments, as he looks over the camps, “This is General McClellan’s bodyguard.”
Confederates – Military/Naval-Civilian
The Confederate cruiser Alabama takes three more prizes. Yankee shippers demand action from the government.
Confederates – Military
Mississippi
In mid-morning, Confederates under Earl Van Dorn and Sterling Price drive, from the northwest of Corinth, in against the Union troops under Rosecrans.
After severe fighting and piecemeal assaults, the Union troops are driven back into strong defensive redoubts closer to the city. By night the issue is still in doubt.
Grant, at Jackson, Tennessee, in overall command of the area, had not been sure where the combined Confederate attack would be made. Van Dorn was gambling that victory at Corinth would force the Union troops in West Tennessee to draw back to Kentucky and the Ohio River.
Virginia
There are skirmishes on the Blackwater and near Zuni.
Tennessee
There is a skirmish at La Fayette Landing.
Kentucky
There is a skirmish at Cedar Church, near Shepherdsville.
A battered force of Union troops who had evacuated Cumberland Gap arrive at Greenupsburg, after a 16 day march under harsh conditions and with much skirmishing.
Missouri
There is a skirmish at Jollification.
Texas
A Union naval expedition attacks the defenses of Galveston.
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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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