Union - Military
Louisiana
Farragut moves up the Mississippi with 11 vessels. After a brief, successful duel with Confederate guns near nglish Turn, the Union fleet anchors off the waterfront of New Orleans. The docks have been set on fire by various members of the unprotected city.
A loud and angry throng of Confederate civilians meets Farragut's officers as they come ashore to confer with Mayor John Monroe, who claims he has no authority to surrender the city.
Military commander General Mansfield Lovell also refuses to surrender, but indicates he and his forces are retiring from the city. The populace feels, "We are conquered but not subdued."
North Carolina
On the coast near Beaufort, the more than month-long siege of Fort Macon ends. Union troops under John G. Parke open a heavy fire on the fort, dismounting over half its guns. Gunboats also shell the fort from the water side. Late in the afternoon Colonel Moses J. White surrenders. Casualties were light, but yet another bastion of the South was gone.
Alabama
There is a skirmish at Tuscumbia.
New Mexico Territory
There is a skirmish at Socorro.
Missouri
There is a skirmish at Monagan Springs.
Tennessee
At Savannah, Major General C. F. Smith dies of what had been thought as a minor leg injury. An experienced soldier, Smith had been a valuable subordinate to GEneral Grant at Fort Donelson and in other operations.
Bibliography
The Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865. E.B. Long with Barbara Long, De Capo, 1971
No comments:
Post a Comment