Queen Victoria lifts all prohibition against shipping gunpowder, arms, ammunition and military stores from the United Kingdom
Union - Government
Indiana senator Jesse D. Bright is expelled from the US SEnate by a vote of 32 to 14 for alleged complicity with enemies of the United States.
Mrs. Lincoln gives a ball that evening, which is held in the East Room.
Union - Military
Tennesse and Kentucky
Troops continue to debark north of Fort Henry on the Tennessee to cooperate with the gunboats in the coming Union attack. They are to move on the Fort early on the 6th.
(CF Smith)
General Charles Ferguson Smith's force is sent west of the river to take the unfinished Fort Heiman, located over the bluffs of Fort Henry, and find it has been evacuated.
In Fort Henry, Confederate Brigadier General Lloyd Tilghman has over 3,000 men. The fort itself is partially inundated.
Bibliography
The Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865. E.B. Long with Barbara Long, De Capo, 1971
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