Government - Confederate
The news arrives in Richmond of the defeat at Mill's Springs, as does the news about the Union expedition from Cairo, and the threat of Burnside's invasion of North Carolina.
Military - Union
Illinois
The Union reconnaissance of about 5,000 soldiers from Ulysses Grant's command in Cairo, Illinois returns from a "difficult but satisfactory" expedition into western Kentucky. There had been very little fighting, yet a "definite threat" had been posed to the Confederate bastion at Columbus, Kentucky.
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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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