Republican (nationalist) Senator Benjamin F. Wade, of Kansas, and Republican Representative Henry Winter Davis, of Maryland, publish their “Wade-Davis Manifesto” criticizing Republican President Abraham Lincoln, of the united States, for his “pocket veto” of their reconstruction act, that the president had no authority under Article IV, Section 4—the Guarantee Clause—to determine the “republican form of government” that should be imposed upon the Confederate States.  Moreover, Lincoln’s plan of reconstruction did not allow for freedman suffrage (voting).

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       The Battle of Mobile Bay (Alabama): Vice Admiral David G. Farragut, of the Navy of the united States, commanding a fleet of fourteen wooden ships, and four ironclads.  This leaves Wilmington, North Carolina as the only free Confederate port.

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       Lieutenant General Ulysses Simpson (a.k.a. Hiram Ulysses) Grant, General-in-Chief of the Army of the united States, orders Major General David Hunter, commander of the compulsory Union Army of the Shenandoah, “In pushing up the Shenandoah Valley … it is desirable that nothing should be left to invite the enemy to return.  Take all provisions, forage, and stock wanted for the use of your command; such as cannot be consumed, destroy.”

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