Confederacy - Government
President Davis issues a proclamation calling the former Union commander of New Orleans and the Gulf, Major General Benjamin Butler, a felon, an outlaw, a common enemy of mankind, and if captured he should not be considered a military prisoner but should be hanged immediately.
Davis, from Jackson, Mississippi, wires his Secretary of War: "There is immediate and urgent necessity for heavy guns and long range field pieces at Vicksburg."
Confederacy - Government/Military
Major General Simon Bolivar Buckner assumes command of the Confederate District of the Gulf, and Lieutenant General E. Kirby Smith resumes command of the Department of East Tennessee.
Confederacy - Military
Tennessee
There is a skirmish near Nashville.
Arkansas
There is a skirmish on the St. Francis Road, near Helena.
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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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