Government/Civilian/Military - Union
President Lincoln approved the joint resolution of Congress, calling for gradual emancipation of the slaves by the states.
Major General Samuel R. Curtis assumes command of the District of Kansas.
Brigadier GEnwral W.H.L. Wallace of Illinis died of wounds received at Shiloh.
Police break up a counterfeiting rin in St. Louis, Missouri.
Government - Confederates
President Davis wired the governors of the Confederate states: "General Beauregard must have reinforcements to meet the vast accumulation of the enemy before him."
Military - Union
Georgia
For several weeks, Brigadier GEneral Quincy Adams Gillmore had been preparing the attack on Fort Pulaski on Cockspur Island near the entrance to the harbor of Savannah, Georgia. Gillmore's men had erected heavy batteries on Tybee's Island, across the SAvannah River facing the fort.
The sturdily built Fort Pulaski was garrisoned by 385 men under Colonel Charles H. Olmstead and held 48 guns.
The Union troops did not believe that ordinary smoothbore shot and shell would not be able to penetrate the brick walls from the distance where they were emplaced, and so for the first time against such fortifications, rifled guns with long range and penetrating shells were used.
Today, the Union bombardment from Tybee Island began and continued all day, with answering fire coming from Fort Pulaski.
Florida
There is a skirmish near Fernandina.
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Bibliography
The Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865. E.B. Long with Barbara Long, De Capo, 1971
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