In the Michigan state elections, Republican scored strong victories across the board.  Henry Howland Crapo defeated former Union General Alpheus Starkey Williams for governor and final counts saw the state legislature firmly in the hands of the Republicans with majorities of thirty to two seats in the Senate and eighty-three to seventeen seats in the House.  A change to the state constitution to allow soldiers to vote in state election through absentee ballots was also passed.  (By John Osborne)

Michigan's President Johnson supporting National Union convention had met the previous day and nominated former Union Army corps commanders Major General Alpheus Starkey Williams as their candidate for governor.  When Michigan's Democratic Party assembled, they endorsed this and all the other nominations of the National Union.  Williams was handily defeated in the November election, however.  (By John Osborne) 

Michigan's Republican Party met in Detroit to nominate candidates for the upcoming state elections.  They nominated as their candidate for governor, Henry Howland Crapo.  The convention also passed a series of resolutions that indicated that the party's political divide with the administration of President Johnson was widening alarmingly.  Crapo and most of the rest of the nominated state ticket were handy winners in the November elections. Crapo, for example, defeated Democratic nominee General Alpheus Starkey Williams 96,746 votes to 67,708. (By John Osborne)

Infighting between the forces of the victorious Mexican Republicans added to the chaos along the Texas/Mexico border. General John Sedgwick had unwisely sent fifty men into Matamoros, across from Brownsville, in support of a Mexican general opposed to Benito Juarez.  Though he had soon made amends by forcing the surrender of the town to the Juarez forces, he had inadvertently undermined United States support for Juarez and endangered an agreement with France that American forces would not intervene in Mexico when French troops withdrew. General Sheridan summarily relieved Sedwick of his command. (By John Osborne)  

Infighting between the forces of the victorious Mexican Republicans added to the chaos along the Texas/Mexico border. The local Mexican commander, named Canares, holding the town of Matamoros against fellow Mexicans loyal to Benito Juarez, had appealed four days before to the U.S. Army head across the river in Brownsville to send help "to restore order" in the town.  General John Sedgwick unwisely sent fifty men into the middle of the siege.  He lost patience with the situation after only a few days and on this day forced the surrender of the town to the Juarez forces. General Sheridan reassigned Sedgwick soon after. (By John Osborne)  

Infighting between the forces of the victorious Mexican Republicans added to the chaos along the Texas/Mexico border. The local commander, named Canares, holding the town of Matamoros against fellow Mexicans loyal to Benito Juarez, appealed to the U.S. Army head across the river in Brownsville to send help "to restore order" in the town.  General John Sedgwick unwisely sent fifty men into the middle of the siege.  He lost patience with the situation after only a few days and forced the surrender of the town to the Juarez forces. General Sheridan reassigned Sedgwick soon after. (By John Osborne)  

A week before, French forces under Foreign Legion commander Brigadier General Jean Pierre Joseph Jeanningros had evacuated the northeast Mexico city of Monterrey.  Now Republican forces occupied the nearby city of Tampico. By the end of September 1866, the only towns in the north of the country remaining in Imperialist hands were Durango and Mazatlan. (By John Osborne) 

In northeast Mexico, French forces under Foreign Legion commander Brigadier General Jean Pierre Joseph Jeanningros slipped away from Monterrey and Republican forces occupied the city the next day.  This set the scene for Tampico being captured in early August and heralded the rest of northern Mexico falling into Republican hands before the end of the summer.  (By John Osborne) 

Adding to the confusion along the Texas/Mexico border, a regular and irregular American force had taken the port town of Bagdad, Mexico, across the border from Brownsville.   Bagdad was looted and order was not restored until days later, when U.S. General Godfrey Wietzel, regional commander in Texas, arrived, declared military law and arrested the American adventurers responsible. With an international clash with France in mind, Wietzel withdrew his forces and Mexican Imperialist troops re-occupied the town.  (By John Osborne)