Union - Civilian/Government
The 12-year old son of Abraham Lincoln, William Wallace "Willie" Lincoln, age 12, dies in the late afternoon from typhoid. A "weeping president" tries to console his "distraught wife."
Civilian - North and South
Casualty lists from the Fort Donelson battle begin arriving in both the North and South.
Military - Confederacy
KentuckyOn the Mississippi River, the Confederate bastion of Columbus, Kentucky is evacuated by Confederate troops. Troops begin to withdraw into the middle South.
Tennessee
Governor Isham Harris announces the removal of Tennessee's capitol from Nashville to Memphis. The Confederate Army, reassembling at Nashville, was pulling back to Murfeesboro, southeast of the city, at the command of General Albert Sydney Johnson.
Military - Union
North Carolina
Union troops make an expedition in Currituck Sound.
Bibliography
The Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865. E.B. Long with Barbara Long, De Capo, 1971
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