A fatal accident occured in Nicholasville in central Kentucky when a Kentucky Central Railroad locomotive blew its boiler.  Six soldiers from four different New England regiments were killed immediately or died the next day from severe scalding burns, and several others were badly injured.  The Thirty-Fifth Massachusetts lost three men, the Seventh Rhode Island and the Ninth New Hampshire lost one man each.  (By John Osborne)

Shawneetown, Kansas, lay between Olanthe and Kansas City in Johnson County and William Quantrill and his guerrillas had attacked and burned the settlement in October, 1862.  Thirteen of Quantrill's men under William Anderson and  Dick Yeager hit the town again, killed four Union supporters and burned nine structures in the rebuilding town.  (By John Osborne)

A week before his fifty-second birthday, railroad executive Joseph Albree Gilmore was sworn in at the state capital in Concord as the 29th Governor of New Hampshire.  A Republican, he had defeated Democrat Ira Eastman in the recent elections.  He was to serve two terms as chief executive of the state, leaving office two months after the end of the Civil War.  (By John Osborne)

Bluffton, South Carolina had a reputation as an early secessionist center and after the Union's landings served as a refugee center and Confederate military headquarters.  Union forces landed nearby soon after dawn and occupied the town. The land forces commander ordered fires set and as the buildings burned Confederate forces counter-attacked. The Union troops reboarded the five naval vessels in the force under cover of their fire and withdrew. Most of Bluffton, barring the two churches and a few residences, was destroyed in the raid.  (By John Osborne)