In Washington, President Lincoln declines the offer of war elephants from the King of Siam because the nation "does not reach a latitude so low as to favor the multiplication of the elephant."
Lincoln also writes to General McClellan about the confict between their ideas of operations in Virginia. Lincoln wished McClellan to go directly overland south, while McClellan wanted to land on the coast and march toward Richmond.
The Administration decides that crews of captured privateers be considered prisoners of war.
In the US Senate, Zachariah Chandler of Michigan presents a resolution from the Michigan legislature which urges the putting down of insurrection, confiscation of property of Southerners, and abolition of slavery. Many such petitions and pleas of this nature are made to Congress at this time, but there were also those who protested the trend toward making it a war against slavery.
Union - Military
Illinois - Ketucky
Troop transports move from Cairo to Paducah, and the gunboat fleet begins heading up the Tennessee or south toward Fort HEnry.
Virginia
There is a Union reconnaissance to Occoquan Village.
From Wikipedia on Zacharia Chandler
Zachariah Chandler (December 10, 1813 – November 1, 1879) was Mayor of Detroit (1851–52), a four-term U.S. Senator from the state of Michigan (1857–75, 1879), and Secretary of the Interior under U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant (1875–77).
Bibliography
The Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865. E.B. Long with Barbara Long, De Capo, 1971
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