Union - Military
Virginia
At Alexandria, General McClellan began embarking the huge Army of the Potomac, en route to the James and York rivers and what was to become the Peninsula Campaign.
"Supposedly," according to Long, "he was to leave sufficient troops in the immediate vicinity of Washington to guard the capital from the Confederate army on the Rappahannock and in the Shenandoah." [but presumably did not do so?]
Tennessee
Major General Grant regained his active command and as two more divisions arrived, set up his headquarters oin a mansion at Savannah, north of the army comcentration point at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River.
Missouri
There was a skirmish at Riddle's Point.
Bibliography
The Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865. E.B. Long with Barbara Long, De Capo, 1971
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