13 May 1862: Tuesday

Confederates - Government
President Davis writes to his wife, who had been sent out of threatened Richmond: "If the withdrawal from the Peninsula and Norfolk had been done with due preparation and a desirable deliberation, I should be more sanguine of a successful defense of this city...I know not what to expect when so many failures are to be remeberd, yet will try to make a successful resistance..."

Confederate - Military
Virginia
In the shenandoah, Stonewall Jackson and his troops return from Franklin (where they had pursued the retreating Union forces since the Battle of McDowell on May 8), heading toward the main valley to face Union GEneral Banks ' reduced force at Strasburg.

On the Union side, General Fremont reaches Franklin with his Union troops.

There is a skirmish at Baltimore Crossroads, near New Kent Court House.

There is a skirmish on the Rappahannock River.

South Carolina
Martial law is declared.

In Charleston Harbor, a crew of Negroes take over the steamer Planter and surrender it to the blockaders.

Union - Military
Alabama
Union forces under GEneral Mitchel occupy Rogersville and skirmish at Lab's Ferry.

Mississippi
Near Corinth, Union troops raid the Memphis and Charleston Railroad.


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