Union - Government
President Lincoln tenders the thanks of the country to General Rosecrans for his Tennessee victory.
Confederacy - Government
In Richmond, President Davis, being welcomes home from his trip out west, tells a serenading crowd that the Confederacy was the last hope for "the perpetuation of that system of government which our forefathers founded-the asylum of the oppressed and the home of true representative liberty." He continued: "Every crime which could characterize the course of demons has marked the course of the invader."
Confederacy
West Virginia
Confederate raid near Moorefield.
Union - Military
Virginia
General Burnside, pinned down in Fredericksburg, writes President Lincoln that despite the opinion of his subordinate officers he still thought a crossing of the Rapahannock should be attempted. Again he formally tendered his resignation,, "to relieve you from all embarrasment in my case."
A skirmish occurs at Cub Run.
Tennessee
Union troops enter Murfreesboro.
Skirmishes occur at Lytle's Creek, on the Manchester Pike, and on the Shelbyville Pike.
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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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