Government - Union
President Lincoln approved an act of Congress authorizing a joint commission of the United States, France and Great Britain to consider the means of preserving Atlantic fisheries.
The Federal Department of Florida was merged into the Department of the South with Major General David Hunter commanding, and headquarters at Hilton Head, South CArolina.
Government - Confederacy
President Davis tells General Joseph E. Johnson that there was no immediate necessity for throwing troops into Richmond and that the general should decisw on his new position.
Union - Military
Missouri
General Halleck, in St. Louis, exonerates General Grant of the rather superficial charges rising out of Fort Donelson and restored him to field command of the forces in tennessee. Grant replaced General Charles Ferguson Smith, incapacitated by a leg injury.
Tennessee
As the divisions of William Sherman and Stephen Hurlbut came into Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee, Major General Buell was ordered by Halleck to head from Nashville toward Savannah, Tennessee. Buell was to aid Grant's advancing army, but he was delayed by the lack of bridges over the Duck River.
Military - Confederacy
General John Hunt Morgan begins four days of operations around Gallatin, Tennessee.
Missouri
There is a skirmish near Marshall, Missouri.
Bibliography
The Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865. E.B. Long with Barbara Long, De Capo, 1971
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