The Union - President Lincoln
President Lincoln writes his annual State of the Union message to Congress. The President "covers many fields, foreign and domestic, as well as reporting on the war effort. He claims that 'the insurrection is largely, if not exclusively, a war upon the first principle of popular government-the rights of the people.' ...In general he finds the condition of the nation good, despite the war, and calls again for colonization of free Negroes, a plan which was becoming more and more a part of Lincoln's policy.
Missouri
There is an action at Salem, Missouri.
Virginia
There is an action at Vienna, Virginia.
Ship Island
Federal forces reoccupy Ship Island, prepatory to moving against New Orleans or the Gulf Coast.
Bibliography
The Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865. E.B. Long with Barbara Long, De Capo, 1971
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