Elijah Denny dies in Rockcastle Co - age 110, a Rev. war soldier. 70 guerillas enter Flemingsburg, and rob the bank and citizens. Guerrilas in large force visit Columbia, Greensburg, Bardstown, Danville and elsewhere frightening and pillaging the citizens. Confederate cavalary burns the courthouse at Mt Sterling, releases all the prisoners from jail and capture 100 horses. Monroe Co KY has only 704 enrolled militia.
Mild weather turns bad at dusk, rain - then sleet followed by violent winds.
8 below zero at Lexington. Col. Bruce, at Louisville ordered coffee houses closed for selling liquour to soldiers. Bath Co. The latter from carlessness of Federal soldiers, the first - arson. Violent snow storm at Covington. Guerrillas attack Elizabethtown in Hardin Co, are repulsed.