Union - Government
Washington
The Union Congress continues to discuss the possibility of emancipation.
Lincoln writes a letter to Horace Greeley regarding his proposed gradual compensated emancipation, saying, "We should urge it persuasively, and not menacingly, upon the South."
Union - Civilian
Ohio
Abolitionist Wendell Phillips attempts to lecture in Cincinnati, he was pelted with eggs and rocks. The meeting eventually descended into a melee, and Phillips was taken away by friends.
Military - Confederacy
Tennessee
There is a skirmish at Camp Jackson.
Mississippi
At Corinth, Albert Sydney Johnston's army is completing its movement from Murfeesboro, Tennessee, preparing to oppose the Union's GEneral Grant, who was some 20 miles away at Pittsburg Landing.
Bibliography
The Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865. E.B. Long with Barbara Long, De Capo, 1971
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