In Cleveland, Ohio, the national convention of the Union League, meeting in the city, held a massive public event.  An estimated 12,000 people in attendance heard speeches from the gathering's chairman, Rufus P. Spalding, U.S. Postmaster-General Montgomery Blair, who called slavery the "black opium drug" of the South, James Lane of Kansas, Owen Lovejoy, John A. Bingham, and other national figures.  (By John Osborne)  

Just west of Salamanca in the western New York county of Cattaraugus, a small bridge on the Atlantic and Great Western Railway partially collapsed as an express train was passing over it.  One passenger car and the baggage car fell into a stream fifteen feet below.  The baggage car was severely damaged and a newspaper employee killed. The U.S. Mail handler aboard and the baggage master were also severely injured.  No passengers were seriously hurt. (By John Osborne)

Con Orem of Colorado and Owen Geoghagen of New York City met in a field near Amboy around dawn before a large crowd of New Yorkers for an illegal prize fight. The well-matched young boxers fought for less than half an hour before Georghagen went down under a blow the local partisans considered a foul.  A near riot ensued and weapons were drawn and flourished until the referee, under the influence of a pistol to his head, declared Orem disqualified and Georghagen the winner.  Police later made forty arrests. (By John Osborne)   

In Washington, D.C., leading African-American residents met on the subject of black enlistments into the Union Army.  One speaker, W.A. Crofutt, asked that President Lincoln to do all in his power to protect black Union soldiers taken prisoner from Confederate ill-treatment, even if the Union had to threaten retaliation against CSA prisoners in Northern hands.  A petition was passed and sent to the White House. (By John Osborne) 

German-born Julius Mileke had deserted from the 10th Michigan Volunteer Infantry, enlisted again elsewhere, collected his bounty, and deserted once more, before being arrested in Louisville, Kentucky. He was shot by firing squad at noon, seated on his coffin at a crossroads outside of Nashville before a large group of soldiers and onlookers.  His reported last words, in German, were "Take good aim, men. All is over now."  (By John Osborne) 

The Illinois town of Dixon hosted a large gathering of Unionists from Lee County and the nearby counties of Ogle and Whitesides to dedicate a new purpose-built Union Hall.  Meetings with loyal speeches were held in the afternoon and evening with around four thousand people estimated to be in attendance.  Dixon was the place where Abraham Lincoln enlisted in the Illinois militia during the Black Hawk War in 1832.  (By John Osborne)