Government - Confederate
President DAvis writes to General Albert Sidney Johnson, at Corinth, Massachusetts. "You have done wonderfully well, and now I breathe easier in the assurance that you will be able to make a junction of your two armies." (He is speaking of PT Beauregard's and Johnston's meeting so they could face the Union troops moving on the Tennessee River before more Union reinforcements arrived from Nashville.
Military - Confederacy
New Mexico Terrtory
From Santa Fe, a Confederate column marches out on the Santa Fe Trail southeast, where it unexpectedly met a Union column of Colorado volunteers advancing from Fort Union to oppose the Confederate offensive.
At Apache Canyon near Johnson's Ranch, portions of the two forces converged. After severe fighting in the Valley, the Union troops, led by Major John M. Chivinggton, although victorious, fell back to Pigeon's Ranch near Glorieta.
Farther east, there is action at Humansville, on the Post Oak Creek at the mouth of the Brier.
Missouri
There is a skirmish near Gouge's Mill.
Bibliography
The Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865. E.B. Long with Barbara Long, De Capo, 1971
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