September 9, 1861
- Lincoln was advised by numerous senior military figures to relieve General Frémont of his command in Missouri. Lincoln did not take this advice but appointed General David Hunter to assist Frémont.
- Nurse Sally Tompkins is officially commissioned as an officer (and its only woman officer) by the Confederate US Army. Her “Robertson Hospital treated patients continuously throughout the war, discharging its last soldier on 13 June 1865. During its four-year existence, Robertson Hospital treated 1,334 wounded with only seventy-three deaths, the lowest mortality rate of any military hospital during the Civil War. (Wikipedia)
A Chronological History of the Civil War in America1
- 156 Union prisoners (156) taken at Bull Run, sent from Richmond to Castle Pinckney, Charleston Harbor.
- A Chronological History of the Civil War in America by Richard Swainson Fisher, New York, Johnson and Ward, 1863