Union - Government/Personal
Washington, DC
Willie Lincoln, youngest son of President Lincoln, lies in the White House, critically ill.
Union - Military
Tennessee
General Grant makes a reconnaissance of Fort Donelson on the Cumberland near Dover, Tennessee. His troops establish themselves near Fort Henry, captured the previous day.
The gunboats used in the attack on Fort Henry move back down the Tennessee to the Ohio, prepatory to moving up the Cumberland River to Fort Donelson.
North Carolina
After moving vessels over the shallow bar at Hatteras Inlet on the Outer Banks, General Ambrose E. Burnside's expedition heads toward Roanoke Island. Commodore Louis M. Goldsborough's squadron attacks and routes the few Confederate naval defenders, and in the afternoon and into the evening, Ambrose's troops land on the island.
Western Virginia
Union forces reoccupy Romney, as the Confederates pull back toward Winchester, Virginia.
There is a small expedition and skirmish at Flint Hill and Hunter's Mill. Union batteries shell Harper's Ferry.
Confederacy - Military
Kentucky
Confederate General Albert S. Johnston,realizing his Kentucky line has been wrecked, hurries troops to Fort Donelson. General Gideon Pillow, from Clarksville, TEnnessee and General John B. Floyd from Russellville, Kentucky, are ordered to Donelson.
At Bowling Green, Kentucky, Johnston, Beauregard and William Joseph Hardee meet to discuss the seriousness of the situation.
Bibliography
The Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865. E.B. Long with Barbara Long, De Capo, 1971
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