Marshall L. Cleveland, originally an Ohioan named Metz, had resigned his commission with the Kansas Seventh Cavalry and taken up a life of crime mostly in northern Kansas. Tall and powerful, he terrorized Kansans with slave owning sympathies in the name of the northern cause.  He was cornered at the Geer Hotel in Osawatomie, and, while escaping by horseback, he was chased for several miles and killed by men of the Kansas Sixth Cavalry.  (By John Osborne)

For New York, the 1862 horse racing and trotting season got underway at the Union Course just east of the city on Long Island with harness racing. The centerpiece on a fine day was a match race for an $800 prize between the mare Sunnyside and a gray gelding called Ed Eddy over a mile, best three heats out of five.  Racing began at 4 p.m. with James McCann driving Ed Eddy to win all three heats before a large crowd. (By John Osborne)

In mid-afternoon, on the pier at the foot of North 2nd Street on the Brooklyn, New York waterfront, the derrick unloading a lighter filled with kerosene collapsed and smashed several barrels which then ignited.  The vessel and the pier were instantly engulfed in flames that spread down the quayside to seven large oil storehouses.  These and other buildings were destroyed before the fire was brought under control.  Damage was estimated in the press at around $340,000 and at least two men died of burns. Several firemen were also hurt.  (By John Osborne)  

The short sharp naval encounter began around 7 a.m. near Plum Point Bend, four miles below Fort Pillow, when steamboats of the Confederate River Defense Fleet, commanded by Captain J.E. Montgomery, surprised the Union Mississippi RIver Squadron under Captain Charles Davis.  Taking time to get up steam, the Union vessels suffered from Confederate ramming and the Cincinnati and the Mound City were badly damaged. (By John Osborne)

On a warm, sunny day in Philadelphia, the New Ironsides was launched at the Kensington Yard just north of the central city with thousands of city residents in attendance.  The 83 year-old Charles Stewart, famous captain of the U.S.S. Constitution, the "Old Ironsides" from the War of 1812, did the honors.  The New Ironsides saw action in South Carolina in 1863 and 1864.  She was destroyed by fire in December 1866.  (By John Osborne)

With the arrival of significant U.S. Navy reinforcements a few days before, the Confederate garrison at Pensacola, Florida began preparations for evacuation.  During the night, they fired the Warrington Navy Yard, Fort McRae, the Naval Hospital, and parts of the town. Observing the fires during the night, Union officers landed to receive the surrender of the town from its nervous civilian government and Brigadier General Lewis G. Arnold's men took up occupation. (By John Osborne). 

Despite U.S. Navy misgivings, 5000 Union troops under Major General John Ellis Wool made a bold amphibious landing at Ocean View, Virginia with the aim of capturing nearby Norfolk.  Confederate military and naval forces had been abandoning the area and a delegation of citizens met Wool as he approached and surrendered the town.  Wool found the installations around Norfolk and the Portsmouth Naval Yard in ruins.  (By John Osborne)

Of the coast of Norfolk, Virginia, U.S. Navy units made a probing afternoon bombardment of the Confederate positions defending the harbor around Sewell's Point and Craney Island.  In mid-afternoon, the Confederate ironclad Merrimac appeared but did not engage the Union fleet and its own ironclad, the U.S.S. Monitor.  Firing was heavy until the evening when the Union ships returned to their anchorages.  President Lincoln watched the afternoon's action from a small tugboat about a mile behind the Union fleet.  (By John Osborne)