The 700 ton screw steamship Oreto had been recently completed in Liverpool for secret purchase by the Confederacy as the first of its foreign-built raiders.  She left Liverpool in March with a British crew and arrived in Nassau where she was transferred to the Confederate Navy. She emerged in August 1862 as the C.S.S. Florida, under Lieutenant John Newland Maffitt, and had raiding success until her capture in October 1864.  (By John Osborne)

Union Brigadier General O.M. Mitchel led his division towards Bridgeport near the northwest corner of Alabama, an important transport center since there the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad crossed the Tennessee River.  Moving swiftly, he attacked the Confederate positions defending the bridge in the late afternoon, beat off a counterattack, and took the largely undamaged railroad bridge. Confederate losses were significant, with more than seventy killed and wounded and several hundred captured.  The Union now controlled northern Alabama.  (By John Osborne)  

Both the commander of around 140 Missouri Union cavalrymen under Major J. M. Hubbard and the Chief Stand Watie, leading the Second Cherokee Mounted Rifles, claimed victory in a skirmish near Neosho in southwestern Missouri.  The Cherokee unit advanced and attacked the Union camp, later claiming to have killed or wounded thirty men, before withdrawing and losing only two killed.  Hubbard, on the other hand claimed to have killed thirty Confederates and captured 62.  (By John Osborne)