Government - Union
President Lincoln signs a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia.
Military - Union
Alabama
Union troops occupy Tuscumbia.
Government - Confederates
President Davis approves an act of the Confederate Congress calling for conscription of every white mail between eighteen and thirty-five years of age for three year's service. The measure provided for administration of enrollment and draft by state officials, assignment to units from their own states, election of company, battalion and regimental officers, and for substitutions. There wew no specific exemptions; those provided by the act of April 21 exempted government officials, ferrymen, pilots, employees in iron mines and foundries, telegraph operators, ministers, printers, educators, hospital employees, and druggists among others. (There will be a number of later revisions to the exemptions.)
Military - Confederates
Virginia
There is an engagement at Lee's Mill, also known as Burnt Chimneys and Dam No. 1
There is minor fighting near Yorktown, on the Peninsula.
Georgia
There is skirmishing at Whitemarsh Island.
Missouri
There is skirmishing near Blackwater Creek.
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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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