Union - Government
Secretary of War Edwin Stanton discharges nearly all political prisoners held by the military.
Union - Military
Virginia
General E. V. Sumner agrees not to bombard Fredericksburg, despite the ultimatum of the day before, "so long as no hostile demonstration is made from the town."
Twelve Southern salt works are destroyed, along with a number of vessels, in Matthews County, on Chesapeake Bay.
Western Virginia
The garrison of Halltown is attacked by Confederates, but are driven back.
Louisiana
There is a skirmish at Petite Anse Island.
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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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