Ohio Congressman Clement L. Vallandigham had been found guilty of disloyalty at a court martial in Cincinatti a few weeks before and sentenced to banishment from the United States to the Confederacy.  The sentence was carried out in the early morning when a cavalry escort delivered him to a picket of the Eighth Alabama Infantry near Shelbyville, Tennessee. Vallandigham asked the CSA officer in charge that he be treated as a United States citizen and a prisoner of war.  (By John Osborne) 

Enrollment under the new draft law began in the nation's largest city under the direction of Colonel Robert Nugent, a wounded veteran of Fredericksburg and acting assistant provost marshal for the state's Southern District, which included New York City.  The enrolling officers hired began the register in the city's First Ward. The press reported that immigrants would be registered and that a Board of Examiners would determine their exact status later.  (By John Osborne)