At the Delancy Street Dock in New York City, the U.S. Navy began a long series of tests of power plants in two of their recently commissioned vessels, the U.S.S. Algonquin and the U.S.S. Winooski.  Revolutions, pressures, and coal consumption were to be measured, pitting the Boston built Winooski's navy designed boiler against Edward Dickerson's power plant in the Algonquin.  In this and subsequent tests the Winsooki eventually prevailed.  (By John Osborne)

Following the city elections earlier that had chosen a slate of former Confederates and then been declared void by the Union Army authorities, the loyal citizens of Virginia organized a mass meeting to counter the view held in the North that the city and state remained disloyal to the Union.  Several hundred people heard speeches in the state capitol grounds and a delegation was named to meet with President Johnson.  (By John Osborne) 

J.B. Cook, the Assistant Provost Marshal of the Seventeenth District of Ohio was shot down in his yard at his home in Cambridge, Ohio.  Two Union Army deserters, Hiram Oliver and his brother-in-law, John Wesley Hartrup, had fled to Illinois and bought adjoining farms.  They had been dismayed at rumours that Cook was pursuing them and decided to strike first.  They were both convicted of murder and executed in the early afternoon at Camp Chase in Ohio.  (By John Osborne) 

J.B. Cook, the Assistant Provost Marshal of the Seventeenth District of Ohio was shot down in his yard at his home in Cambridge, Ohio.  Two Union Army deserters, Hiram Oliver and his brother-in-law, John Wesley Hartrup, had fled to Illinois and bought adjoining farms.  They had been dismayed at rumours that Cook was pursuing them and decided to strike first.  They were both convicted of murder and executed on September  6, 1865.  (By John Osborne) 

Seventeen-year old slave Amy Spain, a domestic servant of attorney A.C. Spain in Darlington, South Carolina, spotted federal troops from General Sherman's march north to North Carolina, and immediately and loudly declared herself free.  When the troops had passed Confederate officials trial, convicted, and hanged her for disloyalty and theft, over the pleas of her owner, who acted as her defense counsel.  (By John Osborne)