France
Emperor Napoleon III of France proposes to Russia and Great Britain that they should unite in making overtures of mediation in the American Civil War.
Union - Military/Government
Major General Rosencrans assumes command of the Department of the Cumberland, replacing Don Carlos Buell.
Major General Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel, astronomer, lecturer, and prominent Union officer, dies of yellow fever at Beaufort, South Carolina.
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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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