Union - Government
President Lincoln receives a committee of nine Republican senators and discusses reconstruction of the Federal Cabinet and the submitted resignation of Seward as Secretary of State.
Confederacy - Government
President Davis, visiting Chattanooga, writes Secretary of War Seddon that the troops at Murfeesboro are in good condition and fine spirits. He adds that cavalry expeditions under Forrestr and Morgan are expected to break up Union communications to both Buell and Grant.
Davis is anxious over sentiment in east Tennessee and north Alabama as "There is some hostility and much want of confidence in our strength."
Confederacy - Government/Local
South Carolina passes a law providing for the organization of Negro labor to work on defenses.
Confederacy - Military
Tennessee
Nathan Bedford Forrest's cavalry defeats that of the Union at Lexington, in his campaign against Grant's supply lines.
Union - Military
Mississippi
Grant's army is formally organized with the 15th Corps under William T. Sherman, the 16th Corps under Stephen A. Hurlbut, the 17th under James B. McPherson, and the 13th under John A. McClernand. This appointment ends the "machinations" of McClernand, aided by President Lincoln, to form a completely separate army to operate against Vicksburg.
There is a skirmish near Water Valley.
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Bibliography
The Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865. E.B. Long with Barbara Long, De Capo, 1971
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