Action is concentrated in the northernmost counties.
Advancing Federal troops burn CSA President Jefferson Davis's plantation Brierfield, below Vicksburg. In the Vicksburg Campaign there is an affair with Confederate cavalry at Birdsong Ferry on the Big Black River, east of Ingraham . Skirmishes occur near Panola through the next day, while at New Albany there is a skirmish with Federal troops conducting operations in northeas tern Mississippi. Skirmish at Matthew's Ferry on the Coldwater River, while at Mud Creek another skirmish occurs with Federal troops conducting operations in northeastern Mississippi. The Federals explode a mine under the 3rd Louisiana redan, on the Jackson Road one mile from Vicksburg, but the subsequent assault fails.