Union - Government
President Lincoln confers in Washington with General Burnside as disputes rage over who bears responsibility for the Fredericksburg debacle, and the actions of various generals before and after the battle.
Lincoln issues an order congratulating the army for its bravery, and calls the defeat an "accident."
Confederacy - Military
Kentucky
John Hunt Morgan and his cavalry cross the Cumberland River on their Kentucky raid.
Virginia
There are skirmishes near Windsor and at Joyner's Ferry on the Blackwater River.
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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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