The Seventh Regiment of the New York National Guard hosted a large dress ball at the Academy of Music in New York City, including a reception for all of its members who had served in the Union forces during the Civil War.  Major-General John Adams Dix gave a lengthy address to those assembled at the reception.  (By John Osborne) 

The railroad engine house of the Bellefontaine and Indianapolis Railroad at Galion, Ohio was widely considered one of the best in the country. In the early hours of a bitterly cold morning, fires lit to keep oil from freezing ignited and spread to a large container of carbon oil which exploded.  The entire building, along with thirteen locomotives was completed destroyed in under an hour.  No serious injuries were reported.  (By John Osborne)

A large public meeting was held at the Cooper Union in New York for the "purpose of reaffirming the spirit of the Monroe Doctrine." William Cullen Bryant, editor of the New York Post, exemplified the tenor of the meeting when he gave a rousing speech of support for the small republics of central and south America in the face on European intimidation.  Letters of support from leading figures across the nation were also read.  (By John Osborne) 

General Patrick Conner's Powder River Expedition was designed to punish Plains tribes for attacks on emigrant trains and communications.  Accordingly, U.S. troops, along with Winnebago and Pawnee scouts, attacked the large Arapaho village of Chief Black Bear in present-day Sheridan County, Wyoming.  The attackers routed the defenders and scattered the 500 Arapaho there.  Five soldiers and around sixty Arapaho were killed.   (By John Osborne)

On August 10, 1862, sixty Union sympathizing German-American Texans seeking to flee to Mexico were intercepted by Confederate troops and defeated at the Battle of Nueces. Thirty-seven were killed in action or later executed.  In Comfort, Texas, their recovered bodies were buried in a mass grave, with several hundred people in attendance.  A memorial on the site was planned and dedicated later, on August 10, 1866. (By John Osborne)