A scouting party from Fort Crook, near Glenburn in northern California, under the command of Second Lieutenant Richard H. Brewer, tracked a group of hostile Indians numbering around fifty men that was reported to have murdered a man near Hat Creek Station.  After a grueling march, in an action typical of the Army's small operations in the West, Brewer's men caught and engaged the band, killing two. (By John Osborne)

Brigadier-General Albert S. Johnston dispatched Company G of the Second Dragoons, Second Lieutenant Ebenezer Gay commanding, from Camp Floyd, near Fairfield, Utah, to search for a band of hostile Indians reported to have murdered a party of emigrants heading west.  Gay discovered the camp of around 150 men and attacked with his forty-two cavalrymen.  Achieving surprise, the troops killed twenty Indians at the cost of six men wounded. (By John Osborne) 

Major Lewis Armistead led a hand-picked detachment of twenty-five men from his Sixth Infantry Regiment from Fort Mojave at night to surprise a party of renegade Indians camped twelve miles away.  Lieutenant Elisha Marshall marched a similar party from the Sixth in support.  The result was a successful action, with twenty-three hostiles killed.  Three men in Marshall's group were slightly wounded.  (By John Osborne)  

In New Mexico, five Navajo men had broken into a private corral no more than two hundred yards from the U.S. Army camp near Jernez and made off with donkeys and cattle.  Sergeant John Duffin and ten men of Company E, Mounted Riflemen, along with the owner and his son, were dispatched to chase the renegades.  After a day-long pursuit, in the kind of small military action typical of the Army's role in the West, Duffin's men overtook the Navajo, killed one, and recovered most of the stolen livestock.  (By John Osborne)  

John Brown and four of his surviving raiders were under heavy guard at the Charlestown Jail awaiting their first appearance before a Virginia court.  Brown himself was recovering from the wound he had sustained in the storming of the engine house.  (By John Osborne)

On the early morning of this day, after a demand to surrender had been refused, U.S. Marines stormed the engine house where Brown, his surviving raiders, and their hostages had been surrounded.  One Marine and several raiders were killed in the assault but all hostages escaped unharmed.  Brown was wounded and taken prisoner, along with four of his men.  (By John Osborne)

John Brown's attack on Harpers Ferry continued.  Hostages had been assembled under guard in the fire station of the Armory and the townspeople began firing on the raiders.  Before noon on this day, Brown and most of his men were surrounded, with their hostages, in the fire house.  There were dead amongst both citizens and raiders during the day.  Before midnight, a force of U.S. Marines arrived by train from Washington, led by Colonel Robert E. Lee. (By John Osborne)