- 05 Feb 2021 12:59
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February 6, Friday
Minor fighting occurs at Dranesville, Millwood, at Wiggenton’s Mill on Aquia Creek, Virginia; there is a Federal scout in the vicinity of Fort Pillow, Tennessee.
Secretary of State Seward informs the French government that Napoleon III’s offer of mediation has been refused by the North.
The Federal IX Corps under W.F. Smith is transferred from the Army of the Potomac to Newport News, Virginia, to increase the threat to Richmond from the east.
Minor fighting occurs at Dranesville, Millwood, at Wiggenton’s Mill on Aquia Creek, Virginia; there is a Federal scout in the vicinity of Fort Pillow, Tennessee.
Secretary of State Seward informs the French government that Napoleon III’s offer of mediation has been refused by the North.
The Federal IX Corps under W.F. Smith is transferred from the Army of the Potomac to Newport News, Virginia, to increase the threat to Richmond from the east.
Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.
—Edmund Burke
—Edmund Burke