All Confederate forces had left Saint Augustine, Florida on Tuesday evening, along with around five hundred civilians.  The remaining citizens, many Union symphathizers, met the next day with Commander C. R. P. Rodgers of the U.S.S. Wabash whose Marines and Army troops occupied the town without firing a shot.  Commodore Du Pont's main forces arrived nine days later.  (By John Osborne)

Commodore Du Pont's landing at Saint Augustine, Florida found that United States Marines and Army units from the U.S.S. Wabash had landed ten days before without firing a shot and occupied the installations there, including the ancient Spanish Castillo de San Marcos (Fort Marion) and the Saint Francis Barracks on Marine Street.  (By John Osborne)

Jane Arminda Delano lost her father to the American Civil War while a baby. She graduated from the Bellevue Hospital Nursing School in New York City in 1886 and became an experienced nurse and capable administrator.  She returned to Bellevue as director in 1902 and two years later became head of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps.  Delano was largely responsible for the training and readiness of the 20,000 nurses who served in the First World War.  She died in France, on an inspection tour, in April 1919 aged fifty-seven and is buried in Arlington Cemetery.  (By John Osborne)

A Confederate withdrawal from Aquia Creek had been underway for some time in stages and was now completed.  The wharves and many buildings in the town were fired as the last troops left.  Union forces quickly occupied the important northern Virginia ferry hub and it became an important transporteation center for the remainder of the war.  (By John Osborne) 

The steam sloop Juniata was launched at the Philadelpha Naval Yard with the daughter of the yard's commandant, Miss Angela Turner performing the honors.  The 204 foot, 1240 ton vessel was commissioned on December 4, 1862 under the command of Commander John M.B. Glitz.  She saw considerable action throughout the war along the southeast coast and went on to serve the U.S. Navy in a long and varied career until 1891.  (By John Osborne) 

The U.S.S. Rhode Island arrived at the Philadelphia Naval Yard carrying prisoners of war.  Included among these were the twenty-seven crewmen of the privateer Beauregard whose seven-day career as a raider had come to end with capture by the U.S.S. W.G. Anderson on November 12, 1861.  The Beauregard crewmen had been held at Key West in Florida and were on their way to their eventual imprisonment at Fort Warren in Boston Harbor.  (By John Osborne)