Fear grips Washington; Hooker reenlists

• Fear has arrested the U.S. Capitol. Rumors fly of an invasion by the 'rebels,' the Northerners not understanding that the South does not want to invade the North. They don't want anything in the North. They want to be left to themselves to govern themselves. Nonetheless, today Confederate spies are arrested in Washington, and the Adams Express Company is prohibited from carrying letters or packages south of Washington./1861
• Daniel Shriver recruits a company of Confederate troops in Wheeling, western Virginia, known as the Shriver Grays. They move to Harpers Ferry, join the Confederate Army, and become Company G, 27th Virginia Infantry./1861

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Joe Hooker

• President Lincoln appoints Joseph Hooker as Brigadier General and assigns him to the defenses of Washington despite the deep personal disdain General Winfield Scott has for him. Scott had blocked his reenlistment the first time he tried to come back to the US Army. Despite his being a West Point graduate and Mexican War hero with a field promotion at the battle of Chapultepec, Hooker was persona non grata to Winfield Scott, and Hooker had resigned some years earlier to be a businessman and farmer in California. This time Lincoln removed the obstacle to his reenlisting./1861