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Crime/Disasters In Baltimore, a hotel suspected of being a Confederate mail station is raided and seized
Crime/Disasters The Dupont Gunpowder factory near Wilmington, Delaware suffer a heavy explosion that kills four workers
Battles/Soldiers A party of Californians under Daniel Showalter make for Confederate Arizona with Union cavalry in pursuit
Lawmaking/Litigating Judah P. Benjamin is named as Confederate Secretary of War and Thomas Bragg as Attorney General
US/the World In southern England, the Confederate commerce raider Nashville docks for repairs in the port of Southampton
Battles/Soldiers Albert Pike is commissioned as a Confederate brigadier general and given command of the Indian Territory
Battles/Soldiers - On the Florida coast, Union artillery and navy ships bombard Confederate positions around Pensacola
Battles/Soldiers On the Georgia coast, U.S. Navy boat crews take control of Tybee Island
Crime/Disasters In Scotland, one of Edinburgh's oldest tenements collapses killing thirty-two sleeping inhabitants
Business/Industry In Europe's Low Countries, a new railroad line links Liège in Belgium and Maastricht in southern Holland
Battles/Soldiers In Kentucky, Lt-Colonel Nathan Bedford Forrest makes his first cavalry reconnaissance of the war
Battles/Soldiers Major Isaac Lynde, officer who surrendered Fort Fillmore in New Mexico dismissed from U.S. Army
Battles/Soldiers In Paducah, Kentucky, Union officers clash over the treatment of a local secessionist
Lawmaking/Litigating - In Wheeling, the elected West Virginia convention is meeting to write a constitution for the new state
Crime/Disasters Wreckage of missing Prussian warship found along the Dutch coast
Battles/Soldiers Philadelphia's Home Guard, instituted in September, now numbers around four thousand members
Crime/Disasters In South Philadelphia, St Paul Catholic Church is almost completely destroyed by fire
US/the World In Liverpool, the news of the interception and seizure of Mason and Slidell reaches England
Science/Technology In South Carolina, an underwater telegraph cable in Charleston Harbor links Forts Moultrie and Sumter
Lawmaking/Litigating In Richmond, the Confederate Congress votes to admit Missouri as the Confederacy's eleventh state
Battles/Soldiers Union cavalry capture sixteen Californians under Daniel Showalter making for Confederate Arizona
US/the World Rear Admiral Louis-Adolph Bonard succeeds Vice Admiral Charmer as head of French forces in Vietnam
Education/Culture Ethel Beers publishes her poem "The Picket Guard" with its famous lines "All Quiet Along the Potomac"
US/the World In the Trent Affair, the British Foreign Secretary demands an apology and release of Mason and Slidell
Battles/Soldiers In Greeneville, Tennessee, the Confederate military executes two local Unionists for burning railroad bridges
Battles/Soldiers The captured blockade runner Albion arrives in New York Harbor under a prize crew from USS Penguin
Lawmaking/Litigating The second session of the 37th Congress opens in Washington, DC
Crime/Disasters In Belgium, a huge and fatal fire burns Antwerp's largest sugar refinery
Lawmaking/Litigating The Wheeling Convention votes to drop the provisional name "Kanawha" in favor of "West Virginia"
Battles/Soldiers In Salem, Missouri, Confederate raiders surprise the Union garrison but are driven from the town