Confederates - Government
In Richmond, the Virginia house of delegates discusses enrolling free Negroes in the Confederate army.
Secretary of WAr Judah P. Benjamin cracks down on speculators, particularly in sales of saltpeter needed for gunpowder.
The Richmonmd Examiner publishes an ediorial, pointing out that "the Southern people are not sufficiently alive to necessity of exertion in the struggle they are involved in. Better to fight even at the risk of losing battles, than remain inactive to fill up inglorious graves."
Confederate generals appeal to troops, whose terms were about to expire, to re-enlist.
Union - Military
Kentucky and Tennessee
Union troops begin landing in the rain on the banks of the Tennessee north of Fort Henry. Gunboats carry out a reconnaissance to the fort on the east bank of the river just north of the Kentuckt-Tennessee state line.
BibliographyThe Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865. E.B. Long with Barbara Long, De Capo, 1971
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