28 April, 1862: Monday

Military (Navy) - Confederacy
Bahamas
At Nassau, the British Oreto arrives to be outfitted officially as a Confederate raider, CSS Florida.

Military - Union
Louisiana
Surrounded and cut off from any hope of relief, Forts Jackson and St. Philip surrender to Union trooops.

This completes the opening of the Mississippi to New Orleans.

Admiral Farragut threatens to bombard the city unless the United States flag is respected.

Mississippi
In northern Mississippi, Confederate forces begin to realize that Union General Halleck's vast army is about to advance on GEneral Beauregard at Corinth.

Tennessee
There is a skirmish at Monterey.

Alabama
There is a skirmish at Bolivar, and at Paint Rock Bridge.

Missouri
There is a skirmish at Warsaw.

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Bibliography
The Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865. E.B. Long with Barbara Long, De Capo, 1971