Union - Government/Military
President Lincoln names Andrew Johnson as military governor of Tennessee, to be confirmed on March 4 by the Senate. The Departmentof the Gulf is constituted under Major GEneral Benjamin F. Butler, and John Pope assumes command of the Army of the Mississippi at Commerce, Missouri.
Union - Military
Arkansas
Union troops occupy Fayetteville in the northwestern part of the state.
Missouri
Pea Ridge Prairie
There is fighting around Pea Ridge Prairie, Missouri to the north.
Little RiverUnion forces in Missouri also carry out reconnaissances of several days from Greenville to Little River.
South Carolina
Unionn troops carry out reconnaisances on Bull River and Schooner Channel.
Confederacy - Civilian
Citizens and soldiers continue to evacuate Tennessee, as Union soldiers and gunboats draw nearer.
Bibliography
The Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865. E.B. Long with Barbara Long, De Capo, 1971
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