Calls for the immediate expulsion of the two Missouri senators had been made in December 1861 but the Senate insisted on proper procedure.  The Judiciary Committee took up the case and found that both had crossed into Confederate territory, had sworn oaths of allegiance there, and were therefore guilty of treason.  The Committee recommended expulsion the day before and the full Senate ended the tenure of Waldo Porter Johnson and Trusten Polk on votes of 35-0 and 36-0, respectively.  (By John Osborne)

Calls for the immediate expulsion of the two Missouri senators had been made in December 1861 but the Senate insisted on proper procedure.  The Judiciary Committee took up the case and found that both had crossed into Confederate territory, had sworn oaths of allegiance there, and were therefore guilty of treason.  The Committee recommended expulsion and the full Senate ended the tenure of Waldo Johnson and Trusten Polk the next day.  (By John Osborne)

Brigadier-General Humphrey Marshall had been recruiting for the Confederacy in eastern Kentucky and had raised a force of around 2,000 men.  Thirty year-old Colonel James A. Garfield was ordered to take his Union brigade and drive Marshall from the state.  This he did after a small battle at Middle Creek in Floyd County.  Deaths on both sides combined did not exceed a hundred but the Confederacy was driven from Kentucky and the Union moved closer to an invasion of eastern Tennessee.  (By John Osborne)

Union General George H. Thomas marched on the Confederate forces guarding the Cumberland Gap in eastern Kentucky.  Attempting to strike before the federal strength was consolidated, Confederate troops under General George B. Crittenden attacked Thomas and his men at Logan's Crossroad's in the early hours of the morning.  Fighting raged all day, during which Confederate General Felix Zollicoffer was killed, till Union units forced the Confederates to retreat, winning a small but morale-boosting Northern victory.  (By John Osborne)  

Confederate Major General Thomas J. Jackson, already known as "Stonewall," had marched a large force north from Winchester, Virginia with the aim to cut the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.  He had occupied Bath in Morgan County (now part of West Virginia) the day before and the federal forces withdrew across the Potomac into Washington County, Maryland. Jackson's artillery shelled Hancock, Maryland across the river the next evening but did not follow. The Confederates did destroy the B&O's Big Capacon Bridge over the river. (By John Osborne)