At 11:15 p.m., sabotage on a bridge crossing the Little Platte River in Buchanan County, Missouri caused the Hannibal to St. Joseph express train to crash thirty feet into the river. Among the twenty dead were women and children and several soldiers on their way to Fort Leavenworth, including newly enlisted Barclay Coppoc, a survivor of John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry. Almost every one else among the 100 aboard was injured. The outrage helped touch off the bitter "no quarter" raiding and retaliation that ensued in Missouri.  (By John Osborne)   

In the first of four skirmishes in the southwestern Virginia county of Boone, units of the First Kentucky and the 26th Ohio, along with some local Union militia, marched from Charleston on Confederate units recruiting at the county seat. Around thirty Confederates were killed and several others wounded or captured.  Union casualties numbered a few wounded.  After being fired on from a house following the skirmish, the Union troops burned the village of Boone to the ground.  (By John Osborne)   

The 7th Ohio was ordered to secure the Carnifex Ferry across the Gauley River in western Virginia. At Cross Lanes, nearby, a brigade of Virginia troops led by former Virginia governor and U.S. Secretary of War, John Buchanan Floyd, surrounded and scattered the Ohioans in a brief battle.  Four hundred men fought their way to safety but the Seventh lost 15 killed, 40 wounded, and around 80 captured.  CSA losses were light.  (By John Osborne) 

The Mary Kingsland was en route from New York when she was wrecked on a barren stretch of Florida coastline during a severe storm.  All aboard managed to scramble ashore and the survivors, including a theatrical troupe fro New York City, endured a harsh few days on the beach as the storm continued.  They were rescued when the steamship Cahawba arrived, sent in boats, and picked them up.  (By John Osborne) 

The steamboat Farmer, on the way from Houston to Galveston, blew up in Galveston Bay, about ten miles from her destination. More than a dozen passengers and crew were killed or missing in the explosion and six others injured.  The passing steamer Neptune was able to take off the casualties and the survivors. All the U.S. mail aboard was also lost. (By John Osborne)

The House had passed John J. Crittenden's War Aims Resolution three days before. Senator Andrew Johnson of Tennessee offered a similar resolution in the Senate two days later.  It passed on a vote of 30-5 the next day.  The resulting Crittenden-Johnson Resolution was an effort to set conservative goals for the fighting, holding that the only reason for Union military action was the reconstitution of the United States and no other, such as the end of slavery, should be considered. It was repealed the following December. (By John Osborne)