Confederacy - Government
President Davis proclaims martial law in Richmond and Confederate authorities arrest Virginian John Minor Botts and other pro-Northern sympathizers accused of operating against the South.
Confederacy - Military
General Beauregard, in charge of Confederate troops along the Mississippi, was concentrating his units from Columbus, Kentucky and elsewhere at Island No. 10, Fort Pillow, and Corinth, Mississippi.
General A. S. Johnston with the remnants of his army from Bowling Green, Kentucky was beginning to move from Murfeesboro, Tennessee southeast of Nashville, across country toward Corinth, Missouri. It was clear to the Confederates that the next Western moves made by Union forces would be down the Mississippi and Tennessee Rivers.
Missouri
There is a fight at Sikeston, Missouri.
Union - Military
Tennessee
Major General HEnry Halleck, commanding the Union troops in the West, ordered Grant at Fort Donelson to proceed south uup the Tennessee River to near Eastport, Missouri.
Grant, hurrying from Donelson to Fort Henry, set the machinery in motion for another major movement of his army.
At the same time, two wooden gunboats went up as far as Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee and silenced a Confederate field battery that had been sent there by Beauregard.
Bibliography
The Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865. E.B. Long with Barbara Long, De Capo, 1971
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