Union - Military
In command changes, Major General John Charles Fremont resigns his post when ordered to serve under Major General John Pope. Pope is being brought east from the Mississippi Valley to command a new Army of Virginia which will consist primarily of Fremont's and Banks' commands. Franz Sigel is given Fremont's position.
Confederates - Military (I)
General Braxton Bragg is named commander of the Western Department of the Confederate Army, now mainly in and around Tupelo, Mississippi. He succeeds the ailing and disgruntled Beauregard. Bragg, never a popular commander, is thus given an opportunity to see what he could do with the precarious military situation in the West.
Confederates - Military
Virginia
Stonewall Jackson and his troops begin leaving the valley of the Shenandoah. The men are shipped rapidly east towards Richmond and a hoped-for offensive on the Peninsula of Virginia against McClellan.
Missouri
There is a skirmish at Eminence, and near Warrensburg.
Arkansas
There is a skirmish near Smithville
Louisiana
There is a skirmish near Pass Manchac.
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BibliographyThe Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865. E.B. Long with Barbara Long, De Capo, 1971
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