A warparty of Southern Utes attacked the mail coach thirty miles west of Salt Lake City.  The driver and another employee were killed.  The Union commander in the district, General P. Edward Connor, already beset with hostilities from other tribes, as well as with the antipathy of Mormons in the area, called for reinforcements. The Second California Volunteer Cavalry were immediately dispatched from San Francisco.  (By John Osborne) 

Off the coast of North Carolina, the U.S.S. Florida sighted the distant six hundred ton blockade runner Calypso.  After a long chase, the Florida forced the Calypso's surrender about forty miles south of Cape Fear. The Calypso's captain put off his passengers, including several women, in boats and tried to scuttle his vessel.  Florida's carpenters were able to save the Calypso from sinking and took her as a valuable prize with an estimated worth of $200,000. (By John Osborne) 

Two Union inspectors, a colonel and a major, visited the federal lines at Franklin, Tennessee but suspicious Union officers made enquiries to their headquarters and, after arrest and questioning that night, they were identified as Confederate officers, Colonel Lawrence A. Williams and a Lieutenant Dunlap come to spy out Union positions for General Nathan Bedford Forrest.  On orders from General William Rosecrans and his chief of staff, James A. Garfield, they were tried overnight and hanged in the early hours of the next morning.  (By John Osborne)