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| S.B. Buckner |
- At the same time that he has ordered the War Department to recruit Union troops in neutral Kentucky, President Lincoln tells the Inspector General of Kentucky State Militia, Simon Bolivar Buckner saying that Union troops will not enter the state because it is neutral. But he couldn't promise it would always be that way./1861
- In Indian Territory, the Confederate government represented by Special Commissioner Albert Pike concludes a treaty of mutual aid with the Creek Indians./1861
- Major General George B. McClellan in West Virginia sends four US infantry regiments and a cavalry unit under General William S. Rosecrans toward Confederates at Rich Mountain at the same time ordering General T.A. Morris toward Confederate troops under Gen. Robert Sheldon Garnett at Laurel Hill, Virginia. However, the attack is slowed by terrain and unfamiliar roads, delaying a battle another day./1861
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