Government - Confederacy
President Davis writes General Joseph E. Johnston that "Events have cast on our arms and our hopes the gloomiest shadows, and at such a time we must show redoubled energy and resolution."
The new Confederate Congress counts the electoral votes, and also orders the release of 2,000 Union prisoners of war.
Military - Union
Tennessee
Union forces from Generaral Grant's command occupy Clarksville.
Grant, intent on heading toward Tennessee, sends him men in that direction. An internal squabble begins and Grant's men are accused of entering the territory of General Don CArlos Buell, who was also slowly advancing south toward Nashville from the Bowling Green, Kentucky area.
Missouri
There is a skirmish at West Plains.
Bibliography
The Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865. E.B. Long with Barbara Long, De Capo, 1971
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