The Confederate Congress in Richmond, Virginia passed the ordinance to bring Missouri into the Confederacy as its eleventh state.  The action was rather hollow, however, since Union forces occupied most of the region.  The secessionist governor, Claiborne Jackson, had forced through an ordinance of secession exactly a month before.  Although Missouri was regularly represented in Richmond, Confederate supporters were soon forced from the state.  Jackson died in exile at Little Rock, Arkansas in December 1862.  (By John Osborne) 

Major Isaac Lynde of the U.S. Seventh Infantry had been in command of Fort Fillmore in New Mexico when he surrendered the installation to Confederate troops on July 27, 1861.  The elderly career soldier became one of the scapegoats for Union failure in the southwest during the early days of the war and, after a press campaign, was dismissed from the Army effective on this date.  Long efforts to reverse this eventually succeded and he was reinstated to his rank in September 1866.  (By John Osborne)  

Georgia troops had occupied Tybee Island, outside of Savannah, Georgia in April, 1861.  Following the Union amphibious operation against Port Royal, Confederate positions around Savannah were consolidated on Fort Pulaski and Tybee Island was abandoned on November 10, 1861 and all the batteries there removed.  Boatcrews from the U.S. Navy units Augusta, Pocahontas, and Seneca took possession of the island without opposition two weeks later.  (By John Osborne) 

Combined Union artillery and naval gunfire bombarded the powerful Confederate gun emplacements at Fort McRae and Fort Barrancas around Pensacola in Florida. U.S. Navy units Niagara and Richmond, along with the artillery at Fort Pickens, pounded the area for two days, reducing the fire from the Confederate positions significantly causing severe damage to nearby Warrington.  Answering fire killed a soldier at Pickens and wounded several others.  (By John Osborne)