Confederate Navy Lieutenant Charles W. Read had engaged in a remarkable few weeks ravaging the north-east coast in a succession of captured vessels.  At Portland, Maine, he was even bolder and tried to cut out the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Caleb Cushing from its moorings in the harbor.  Pursued, he was caught before making the open sea and he and his men blew up the cutter and made for the shore in boats where they were all captured. (By John Osborne)

The Vermont Democratic State Convention met at Montpelier with Charles Davenport in the chair.  The gathering nominated Timothy P. Redfield of Montpelier as their candidate for governor and E.A. Chapin as his running mate.  Both men lost in the November elections.  Redfield fell to J. Gregory Smith by a significant margin in the strongly Republican state.  (By John Osborne)

Union Major General Darius Couch, commanding the Department of the Susquehanna, ordered Major General Napoleon Dana to take command of the militia and defenses of Philadelphia in the face of the Confederate invasion of Pennsylvania.  Dana immediately named Lieutenant Colonel William Whipple as his chief of staff.  (By John Osborne)

In the first race on the second day of the first meeting of the New York racing season at the Centreville Racecourse on Long Island, the fastest time set on a northern course for the four mile race was run by the bay mare Idlewild, ridden by Tommy Patton.  She came home in seven minutes and twenty-six seconds, a time only bested only twice before, in Louiville, Kentucky and New Orleans, Louisiana, both in 1855. (By John Osborne)  

Two federal enrolling officers for the draft, Dr. A.H. Carter and Frederick Bailey, accompanied by federal marshals, went to arrest two men in the Third Ward of Chicago for refusing to cooperate with the enrollment.  When the two were taken into custody near the Rock Island machine shops close to Fourth Avenue and Liberty Streets, a mob reportedly numbering in the hundreds, attacked the officers with bricks and stones, injuring several of them, fracturing Carter's skull, and freeing the prisoners.  (By John Osborne) 

Columbia University held its 109th Commencement at the Academy of Music in Manhattan. After orations and speeches, President Charles King awarded bachelor's degrees to fifty five young men. Six of then were not in attendance, having already enlisted, five in the Army and one in the Navy.  President King's own son , Rufus King, had lately been a division commander in the Army of the Potomac.  (By John Osborne)

The Chicago press reported the appearance in court in the city of a Miss Alice Clementine.  Two nights before, she had attended the opera at McVicker's Opera House dressed as a gentleman and accompanied by two young ladies.  Noticed as suspicious during the performance, she was questioned and her gender discovered.  She was fined $25 and ordered to pay costs for what the newspapers called her "offensive demonstration."  (By John Osborne)