Boston Riot - George Thompson, a noted British abolitionist came Boston, home of Lloyd Garrison's The Liberator. A pro-slavery mob broke up a meeting of the Female Anti-Slavery Society looking for Thompson. Instead, they found Garrison, dragging him through Boston. Garrison was rescued by the mayor.
William Tecumseh Sherman, in Gaylesville, AL, decides to return to his field headquarters in Kingston, GA. rather than pursue John Bell Hood into Alabama.