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September 28, 1862 Sunday
Minor fighting was near Lebanon Junction, Kentucky; Friar’s Point, Mississippi; Standing Stone, western Virginia; and from this day to Oct 5 there was a Federal expedition from Columbus, Kentucky to Covington, Durhamville, and Fort Randolph, Tennessee. President Davis wrote Gen Lee of his concern over enrollment of conscripts “to fill up the thinned ranks of your regiments.” President Lincoln confides in Vice President Hamlin that effects of Emancipation Proclamation are "not very satisfactory." "The North responds to the proclamation sufficiently in breath; but breath alone kills no rebels." Major General Thomas Carmichael Hindman ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_C._Hindman ), CSA, is assigned command of the 1st Corps, Confederate Army of the West, in Arkansas, Missouri, et. al. U.S.S. State of Georgia, under Commander Armstrong, and U.S.S. Mystic, commanded by Lieutenant Commander Arnold, captured blockade running British steamer Sunbeam near New Inlet, North Carolina.

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Gen Ned Simms
2/XVI Corps/AotT
Blood 'n Guts hisself, a land lovin' pirate. Show me some arty tubes and we'll charge 'em.
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September 29, 1862 Monday
Federal Brig Gen Jefferson Columbus Davis ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_C._Davis ) shot and mortally wounded Brig Gen William “Bull” Nelson during a quarrel in a hotel in Louisville ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_%22Bull%22_Nelson ). Skirmishing broke out on the Elizabethtown Road, and near New Haven, Kentucky. There was a Federal expedition from Centreville to Warrenton and Buckland Mills, Virginia. Maj Gen John F. Reynolds ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Reynolds ) assumed command of the First Army Corps. The Confederate Army of West Tennessee, 22,000 strong under Van Dorn ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Van_Dorn ), marched out of Ripley, Mississippi heading toward Corinth, Mississippi. Brigadier General Douglas H. Cooper, CSA, is appointed Superintendent of Indian Affairs, in Missouri, the Indian Territories, et. al. Henry Hastings Sibley, USA, was appointed to Brigadier General.

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Gen Ned Simms
2/XVI Corps/AotT
Blood 'n Guts hisself, a land lovin' pirate. Show me some arty tubes and we'll charge 'em.
VMI Class of '00

September 30, 1862 Tuesday
The month ended with a number of lesser actions: at Russellville, Glasgow, and near Louisville, Kentucky; at Newtonia, Missouri ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_Newtonia ); Goodlettsville, Tennessee; Glenville, western Virginia; a Federal reconnaissance from Rienzi, Mississippi to the Hatchie River. Sept 30 – Oct 3 there were Union reconnaissances on the Savannah River, Georgia; and Sept 30 – Oct 13 a Federal sea-land expedition from Hilton Head, South Carolina to Saint John’s Bluff, Florida. Brigadier General Isaac Peace Rodman ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_P._Rodman ), USA, dies from his chest wounds during the Battle of Antietam, Maryland, on September 17, 1862.

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Gen Ned Simms
2/XVI Corps/AotT
Blood 'n Guts hisself, a land lovin' pirate. Show me some arty tubes and we'll charge 'em.
VMI Class of '00

October 1, 1862 Wednesday
As the month opened, Bragg’s Confederate campaign was reaching a climax in Kentucky. The Ohio River cities had apparently been successfully defended by Buell’s Federals, but there was fighting on the Bardstown Pike near Mount Washington and on Fern Creek along the Louisville and Frankfort Road.

There was considerable skirmishing between Confederate and Federal cavalry along the Potomac near Sharpsburg, Maryland, Shepherdstown, and Martinsburg, western Virginia and a Federal reconnaissance from Harper’s Ferry to Leesburg, Virginia. Other fighting was at Ruckersville, Mississippi and at Davis’ Bridge and near Nashville, Tennessee.

Maj Gen John C. Pemberton was given command of the new Confederate Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana, replacing Van Dorn. His main duty was the defense of Vicksburg on the Mississippi, obviously the aim of Federal operations.

Disturbed ever since Antietam about operations of the Army of the Potomac, or the lack of them, President Lincoln, at 6 A.M. President and party left on a special train to visit the headquarters of the Army of the Potomac and battlefields in the vicinity of Antietam, Maryland. The party consists of Gen McClernand, Capt Wright Rives of McClernand's staff, Marshal Lamon, Ozias M. Hatch, Illinois politician, John W. Garrett, president of B. & O. Railroad, and others. They arrive Harper's Ferry at noon. Maj Lawrence Kip and Capt Samuel S. Sumner escort President to Gen Sumner's headquarters. In the afternoon Gen McClellan arrives from camp and with President Lincoln reviews troops at Bolivar Heights. Lincoln spends night in Harper's Ferry.

In an important administrative move the Federal gunboat flotilla on western waters was transferred from the War to the Navy Department. David Dixon Porter was named commander of the new Mississippi Squadron, replacing Charles Davis. The Richmond Whig said of the Emancipation Proclamation: “It is a dash of the pen to destroy four thousand millions of our property, and is as much a bid for the slaves to rise in insurrection, with the assurance of aid from the whole military and naval power of the United States.” Robert Seaman Granger, USA, was appointed to Brigadier General.

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Gen Ned Simms
2/XVI Corps/AotT
Blood 'n Guts hisself, a land lovin' pirate. Show me some arty tubes and we'll charge 'em.
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October 2, 1862 Thursday
President Lincoln shifted from Harper’s Ferry to the Headquarters of the Army of the Potomac, occupying a tent next to Gen McClellan’s. The President made a memo of total troops in the Army of the Potomac, arriving at a figure of 88,095.

Scattered fighting broke out on the Shepherdsville Road, Kentucky; near Columbia, Missouri; Beaumont, Texas; and at Baldwyn and near Ramer’s Crossing, Mississippi. Confederate troops were moving in on Corinth, Mississippi. There were operations Oct 2-4 at Blue’s Gap or Hanging Rock, Little Cacapon Bridge, and Paw Paw Tunnel, western Virginia. Federal troops of Buell were pressing slowly toward Bardstown, Kentucky from the Louisville area. Commodore Harwood reported the capture of sloop Thomas Reilly by U.S.S. Thomas Freeborn, commanded by Lieutenant Commander Magaw. Evander McIvor Law, CSA, and Francis Barretto Spinola, USA, were appointed to Brigadier General.

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Gen Ned Simms
2/XVI Corps/AotT
Blood 'n Guts hisself, a land lovin' pirate. Show me some arty tubes and we'll charge 'em.
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October 3, 1862 Friday
In midmorning Confederates under Earl Van Dorn and Sterling Price drove in against Rosecrans’ Federals from northwest of Corinth, Mississippi. After severe fighting and piecemeal assaults, the Federals were driven into strong defensive redoubts closer to the city. By night the issue was still in doubt ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Corinth ). Grant, at Jackson, Tennessee in over-all command of the area, had not been sure where the combined Confederate attack would be made. Van Dorn was gambling that victory at Corinth would force the Federals in west Tennessee to draw back to Kentucky and the Ohio River. Brigadier General Pleasant Adam Hackleman ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasant_A._Hackleman ), USA, is mortally wounded during the Battle of Corinth, Mississippi, while attempting to rally his men against a Confederate charge. He dies later that night at the Tishomingo Hotel, Corinth, Mississippi.

At sunrise President Lincoln and O. M. Hatch walk to a nearby hilltop. Surveying the army camp, President Lincoln comments: "This is General McClellan's bodyguard." During morning he reviews Gen Burnside's corps and cavalry near Antietam battleground. At midday President Lincoln and McClellan ride in ambulances three miles to Bakersville, Maryland, for review of cavalry and troops of Gen Fitz John Porter's and Gen Franklin's corps. On the three-mile ride Marshal Lamon sings several comic ballads [which later result in much public criticism of President Lincoln]. Lincoln poses for a half-dozen group pictures. Again he sleeps in a tent next to McClellan's headquarters. President Lincoln asks of Gen Halleck if the cartel to prevent use of paroled prisoners prohibits using them for fighting Indians. Gen Halleck answered that a paroled prisoner may not discharge any duties of a soldier.

Responding to a request for assistance in an anticipated assault on gathering Confederate forces at Franklin, Virginia, a naval expedition under Lieutenant Commander Flusser, comprising U.S.S. Commodore Perry, Hunchback, and Whitehead, engaged Confederate troops on the Blackwater River for six hours. The river having been obstructed, the gunboats could not reach Franklin and returned down stream as Confederate troops were felling trees in the river behind the gunboats in an attempt to "blockade the river in our rear." Enclosing the reports of the gunboat captains, Commander Davenport, Senior Officer in the Sounds of North Carolina, wrote Rear Admiral S. P. Lee: "While I can not praise too highly the gallantry and heroism displayed by officers and men on the occasion, I think it extremely hazardous for our gunboats unprotected as the men are by bulwarks or any other defenses, to go on expeditions up these narrow and tortuous channels."

A joint expedition under Commander Steedman and Brigadier General John M. Brannon ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milton_Brannan ) engaged and captured a Confederate battery at St. John's Bluff and occupied Jacksonville, Florida, which had been almost entirely evacuated by Southern troops. The Union forces had arrived at the mouth of the river on 1 October and, in operations through 12 October, the gunboats convoyed and supported the Army troops, forcing a general withdrawal by the Confederates. Calling Steedman's action "most hearty and energetic," General Brannon reported: "The entire naval force under his command exhibited a zeal and perseverance in every instance, whether in aiding my forces to effect a landing, the ascent of St. John's River (230 miles), or the assistance to one of my transports unfortunately injured in crossing the bar, that is deserving of all praise." Captain Godon, temporarily commanding the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, noted at operation's end: "We retain possession of St. John's River as far as Jacksonville." Amphibious assaults continued to force Confederate defenses away from the coastal areas.

C.S.S. Alabama, commanded by Captain Semmes, captured ship Brilliant, bound from New York to Liverpool, near 40' N, 50' W. Semmes later commented that ". . . her destruction must have disappointed a good many holders of bills of exchange drawn against her cargo . . . for the ship alone and the freight-moneys which they lost by her destruction [came] to the amount of $93,000. The cargo was probably even more valuable than the ship."

Naval forces under Commander William B. Renshaw in U.S.S. Westfield, including U.S.S. Harriet Lane, Owasco, Clifton, and mortar schooner Henry Janes, bombarded and captured the defenses of the harbor and city of Galveston. Six days later, Galveston formally surrendered to Commander Renshaw. Rear Admiral Farragut reported to Secretary of the Navy Welles: "I am happy to inform you that Galveston, Corpus Christi, and Sabine City and the adjacent waters are flow in our possession. . . . All we want, as I have told the Department in my last dispatches, is a few soldiers to hold the places, and we will soon have the whole coast." The failure to have a sizeable effective Marine Corps to send ashore in conjunction with fleet operations reduced considerably the effectiveness of the Navy and may have lengthened the war.

The Confederate cruiser Alabama took three more prizes. Cries of anguish from Yankee shippers were soon to sound louder than ever. A battered force of Federals who had evacuated Cumberland Gap arrived at Greenupsburg, Kentucky after a sixteen days’ march under harsh conditions and with much skirmishing. William Brimage Bate, CSA, was appointed to Brigadier General.

Other fighting was confined, outside of Corinth, to skirmishes near Zuni, Virginia; at La Fayette Landing, Tennessee; Cedar Church, near Shepherdstown, Kentucky; and Jollification, Missouri.

A good western campaign map can be found here ( http://americancivilwar.com/campaigns/C ... paign.html ).

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Gen Ned Simms
2/XVI Corps/AotT
Blood 'n Guts hisself, a land lovin' pirate. Show me some arty tubes and we'll charge 'em.
VMI Class of '00

October 4, 1862 Saturday
At Corinth, Mississippi the Confederates of Gen Van Dorn renewed their heavy attacks against the well-posted Federals of Rosecrans. Both the assaults and Union counterattacks were costly, particularly at Battery Robinette, with little decided. Eventually repulsed, the Confederates withdrew in early afternoon to Chewalla, ten miles northwest from Corinth. More Federals came in after the battle ended, but there was no pursuit until Oct 5. The figures: Union, 355 killed, 1841 wounded, and 324 missing for 2520 out of about 23,000 effectives; Confederates, 473 killed, 1997 wounded, and 1763 missing for total of 4233 out of probably 22,000 total troops. The Southerners succeeded in taking the pressure off Bragg in Kentucky by preventing reinforcements to Buell, but they failed to capture the important rail and road center of Corinth, or to wreck Rosecrans’ force and thus make Grant pull back toward the Ohio.

At the Kentucky state capital of Frankfort, Richard Hawes was inaugurated Confederate governor in ceremonies attended by Bragg and other officers. Meanwhile, there was skirmishing elsewhere in the state near Bardstown, Clay Village, and on the Bardstown Pike. Other fighting took place at Newtonia, Granby, and in Monroe County, Missouri; near Middleton, Tennessee; Donaldsonville, Louisiana; and at Conrad’s Ferry, Virginia. There was a Federal reconnaissance from Loudoun Heights to Hillsborough in Virginia Oct 4-6. Raiding party from U.S.S. Thomas Freeborn, commanded by Lieutenant Commander Magaw, entered Dumfries, Virginia, and destroyed the telegraph office and wires of the line from Occoquan to Richmond via Fredericksburg.

President Lincoln and Gen McClellan visit wounded in the vicinity of headquarters. At Sharpsburg, Maryland, (Antietam) Lincoln visits "Fighting Dick" (Gen Israel B.) Richardson who lies mortally wounded in a farmhouse. At noon they ride to South Mountain battleground and conclude their survey. An enthusiastic reception with signal guns and parade welcomes President Lincoln to Frederick about 4:45 P.M. He goes to the residence of Mrs Ramsey to see Gen George L. Hartsuff who is ill from wounds received at Antietam. He addresses brief remarks to a crowd assembled in front of the house. About five minutes later he speaks to a crowd at the railway station. At 10 P.M. a special train bearing the Presidential party arrives in Washington.

U.S.S. Somerset, commanded by Lieutenant Commander English, attacked Confederate salt works at Depot Key, Florida. The landing party from Somerset was augmented by a strong force from U.S.S. Tahoma, under Commander John C. Howell, and the salt works were destroyed. Salt at this time was among the most critical "stretegic materials" in the Confederacy.

Dabney Herndon Maury, CSA, was appointed to Major General. Joseph Jackson Barlett, USA; John Milton Thayer, USA; and John Henry Hobart Ward, USA, were appointed to Brigadier General. Brigadier General William Duncan Smith, ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Duncan_Smith ) CSA, dies from an attack of yellow fever in Charleston, South Carolina.

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Gen Ned Simms
2/XVI Corps/AotT
Blood 'n Guts hisself, a land lovin' pirate. Show me some arty tubes and we'll charge 'em.
VMI Class of '00

October 5, 1862 Sunday
Rosecrans’ Federals ineffectively pursued Van Dorn, who was withdrawing from Corinth, Mississippi. However, Federal forces under E.O.C. Ord ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Ord ) from Bolivar, Tennessee did intercept the retreating Confederates at the Hatchie River in Tennessee near Pocahontas, where there was brief but severe fighting in the afternoon ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_ ... 27s_Bridge ). While the Federals regrouped, the battered Confederates managed to extricate themselves and continue to Holly Springs, Mississippi thus ending the Corinth campaign. In addition there was minor action around Corinth, Mississippi, Chewalla, and Big Hill, Tennessee.

Other fighting was at Cole Camp and Sims’ Cove on Cedar Creek, Missouri; Neely’s Bend on the Cumberland River and at Fort Riley, near Nashville, Tennessee. Federal naval forces captured Galveston, Texas with no resistance, and occupied the city briefly with a small force ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_Galveston ). Bragg’s Confederate army was slowly pulling back from Bardstown, Kentucky with Buell following. Kirby Smith’s army was still in the Frankfort, Kentucky area.

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Gen Ned Simms
2/XVI Corps/AotT
Blood 'n Guts hisself, a land lovin' pirate. Show me some arty tubes and we'll charge 'em.
VMI Class of '00

October 6, 1862 Monday
President Lincoln, disturbed by McClellan’s delays, sent instructions to the general in Maryland through Halleck: “The President directs that you cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy or drive him south. Your army must move now while the roads are good.” In Kentucky Bragg’s main Confederate force was moving back toward Harrodsburg as Buell moved after him, occupying Bardstown. There were skirmishes at Fair Grounds, Springfield, Burnt Cross Roads, Beach Fork, and Grassy Mound, Kentucky.

In western Virginia there was a Federal reconnaissance from Bolivar Heights toward Charles Town, and a skirmish at Big Birch; and in Missouri there were skirmishes at Sibley and Liberty. U.S.S. Rachel Seaman, commanded by Acting Master Crocker, captured British schooner Dart attempting to run the blockade at Sabine Pass. Jacob Dolson Cox, USA, is appointed to Major General. Solomon Meredith, USA, is appointed to Brigadier General. Brigadier General Joseph Finegan, CSA, is assigned Confederate command of East Florida and Brigadier General John H. Forney, CSA, is assigned Confederate command of West Florida.

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Gen Ned Simms
2/XVI Corps/AotT
Blood 'n Guts hisself, a land lovin' pirate. Show me some arty tubes and we'll charge 'em.
VMI Class of '00

October 7, 1862 Tuesday
Don Carlos Buell’s Federal army, on the move in Kentucky against Bragg, neared the village of Perryville, while the Confederates were divided, partly at Frankfort and partly near Perryville. There were skirmishes at Brown Hill and near Perryville.

Other fighting was in Mississippi on the Hatchie near Box Ford, at Ruckersville and near Ripley; in Missouri at Newtonia, and near New Franklin. Federals were victorious in a small fight near Le Vergne, Tennessee.

There were several command changes. Maj Gen Gordon Granger ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Granger ) assumed command of the Federal Army of Kentucky and Brig Gen E.A. Carr ( http://www.civil-war-tribute.com/genera ... 12021910-1 ), the Army of the Southwest. Major General Edwin V. Sumner ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Sumner ), USA, is relieved of command of the 2nd Army Corps, Federal Army of the Potomac and Major General Darius N. Couch ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darius_N._Couch ), USA, assumes command of the 2nd Army Corps, Federal Army of the Potomac. For the Confederates, middle and east Florida were embraced in Beauregard’s southeast coast command. Brigadier General Allison Nelson ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison_Nelson ), CSA, dies from dysentery while in camp, near Austin, Arkansas, after getting sick on September 27, 1862.

In Britain, Chancellor of the Exchequer W.E. Gladstone proclaimed that Davis and the Confederate leaders “have made a nation,” and he anticipated the success of their fight for separation. Gladstone’s remarks were highly criticized in Britain and the United States, as well as by later historians. C.S.S. Alabama, commanded by Captain Semmes, captured and burned bark Wave Crest and brig Dunkirk southeast of Nova Scotia. Lieutenant Commander Edward P. Williams in Army transport Darlington, with sailors and troops embarked, captured steamer Governor Milton in St. John's River, Florida. In continuing Union operations in the river, Williams had seized the vessel--termed by Commander Steedman "one of their best boats"--which had been used in transporting guns and munitions to St. John's Bluff.

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Gen Ned Simms
2/XVI Corps/AotT
Blood 'n Guts hisself, a land lovin' pirate. Show me some arty tubes and we'll charge 'em.
VMI Class of '00

October 8, 1862 Wednesday
Along the Chaplin Hills above Doctor’s Creek near Perryville, Kentucky was fought the major battle of the war on Kentucky soil ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Perryville and http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/pe ... l-map.html ). A strange engagement, in which parts of Buell’s Federal army battled portions of Bragg’s Confederate army. Both sides obtained advantages at times and a strong Confederate attack was fought off by men under a relatively new commander named Philip H. Sheridan. Due to an atmospheric phenomenon by which battle noise was not heard back of the lines, Buell did not realize until late in the day that a major fight was in progress and failed to get his full force into battle. Likewise, parts of Bragg’s army were still in the Frankfort area. By day’s end Buell had won at least a partial victory and Bragg pulled off to the southeast, ending the Confederate invasion of Kentucky. Thus two major Southern thrusts north had been halted and pushed back this fall of 1862. The cost at Perryville or Chaplin Hills; Federals, 845 killed, 2851 wounded, 515 missing for a total of 4211 out of 37,000 estimated effectives, although many of those did not see active fighting; Confederates, 519 killed, 2635 wounded, and 251 missing for a total of 3405, nearly a fourth of the possibly 16,000 effectives. Brigadier General James Streshly Jackson ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_S._Jackson ), USA, is killed while leading his troops on the battlefield during the Battle of Perryville, Kentucky. Brigadier General William Rufus Terrill ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_R._Terrill ), USA, is mortally wounded by a Confederate artillery shell during the Battle of Perryville, Kentucky, dying the same day in a field hospital.

There was skirmishing at Lawrenceburg, Kentucky and a Federal reconnaissance from Fairfax Court House to Aldie, Virginia. Steamer Blanche, anchored off Havana, was set afire to prevent seizure by U.S.S. Montgomery, under Commander C. Hunter. C.S.S. Alabama, commanded by Captain Semmes, captured and released on bond packet Tonawanda southeast of Nova Scotia.

President Lincoln congratulated Grant on the recent victories in Mississippi. Brigadier General Jacob D. Cox, USA, is relieved of command of the 9th Army Corps, Federal Army of the Potomac and Brigadier General Orlando B. Wilcox ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_B._Wilcox ), USA, assumes command of the 9th Army Corps, Federal Army of the Potomac. James Birdseye McPherson, USA, is appointed to Major General and Elkanah Brackin Greer, CSA, is appointed to Brigadier General.

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Gen Ned Simms
2/XVI Corps/AotT
Blood 'n Guts hisself, a land lovin' pirate. Show me some arty tubes and we'll charge 'em.
VMI Class of '00

October 9, 1862 Thursday
A little skirmishing on the Mackville Pike and Bardstown Road in Kentucky was an anticlimax to the fighting of the day before at Perryville. There was also action at Dry Ridge, Dog Walk or Chesser’s Store near Salt River, Kentucky and an affair near Humbolt, Tennessee. A Federal expedition that lasted until Nov 25 moved from Fort Union to the Canadian River and Utah Creek, New Mexico Territory.

In the east Confederate J.E.B. Stuart, following Lee’s suggestion, aggravated raw Federal wounds by eluding garrisons, crossing the Potomac on the tenth near Black Creek, and, with about 1800 men, moving on the Chambersburg. After gathering horses and destroying public stores on the tenth and eleventh, Stuart moved east to Cashtown, thence down the Monocacy Valley, and recrossed the Potomac near Poolesville, coming back into Virginia on the twelfth. Federal cavalry tried to halt this ride around McClellan’s inert army, but to no avail. At great risk, and with only one man wounded, Stuart performed another sensational though not militarily vital foray against the North.

The Confederate Congress organized military courts for the armies in the field and defined their powers. James Longstreet, CSA, and Edmund Kirby Smith, CSA, are appointed to Lieutenant General.

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Gen Ned Simms
2/XVI Corps/AotT
Blood 'n Guts hisself, a land lovin' pirate. Show me some arty tubes and we'll charge 'em.
VMI Class of '00

October 10, 1862 Friday
There was fighting at Harrodsburg and Danville Cross Roads, Kentucky as Bragg’s Confederates began their retreat east and southward. In Virginia Jeb Stuart crossed the Potomac on his raid, which began the day before, and by evening entered Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. In Tennessee there was a skirmish at Medon Station; on the upper Missouri River below Fort Berthold ( http://www.legendsofamerica.com/nd-forts2.html ), Dakota Territory, a party of Sioux fought with a boatload of miners. Indiana home guards drove a group of rebel guerrillas from Hawesville, Indiana.

President Davis asked Virginia for a draft of 4500 Negroes to work on completion of the fortifications of Richmond, and Maj Gen John B. Magruder, Confederate hero of the siege of Yorktown, was assigned to command the District of Texas. William Joseph Hardee, CSA; Theophilus Hunter Holmes, CSA; Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, CSA; John Clifford Pemberton, CSA; and Leonidas Polk, CSA, are appointed to Lieutenant General. John Bell Hood, CSA; George Edward Pickett, CSA; and Carter Littlepage Stevenson, CSA, are appointed to Major General. George Leonard Andrews, USA, is appointed to Brigadier General.

President Lincoln telegraphs Major General Samuel Curtis, at St. Louis, where he commands the Department of the Missouri. Lincoln seeks information about "some Cherokee Indian Regiments . . . now at or near Fort-Scott, [Kansas]." Principal Chief John Ross wrote to Lincoln on behalf of the "Cherokee People," who "desire . . . ample military protection, for life and property." Lincoln explains, "[Ross] wishes to know, and so do I, whether the force above mentioned, could not occupy the Cherokee country, consistently with the public service."

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Gen Ned Simms
2/XVI Corps/AotT
Blood 'n Guts hisself, a land lovin' pirate. Show me some arty tubes and we'll charge 'em.
VMI Class of '00

October 11, 1862 Saturday
Jeb Stuart at Chambersburg reported that all officials had fled on the approach of the Confederates. His men cut telegraph wires, seized horses, and destroyed what military equipment they could not bring away. Railroad machine shops, depots, and several trains were also wrecked. In the afternoon Stuart moved eastward and then south through Emmitsburg, Maryland enroute to the Potomac River.

There was sharp skirmishing near Helena, Arkansas and operations in Lewis, Clarke, Scotland, and Schuyler counties of Missouri. In Kentucky there was skirmishing at Lawrenceburg and Danville. An act of the Confederate Congress, approved by President Davis, amended the draft exemption law, enlarging the number of those exempted by reason of occupation. Most controversial was the exemption of an owner or overseer of more than twenty slaves. Richmond papers began to speak of a possible early peace as a result of Confederate successes.

James Bowen, USA, is appointed to Brigadier General. The territories of Colorado and Nebraska are added to the Federal Department of Missouri. U.S.S. Monticello, commanded by Lieutenant Commander Braine, captured blockade running British schooner Revere off Frying Pan Shoals, North Carolina. C.S.S. Alabama, commanded by Captain Semmes, captured and burned Manchester southeast of Nova Scotia bound from New York to Liverpool. "The Manchester," Semmes wrote, "brought us a batch of late New York papers . . . . I learned from them where all the enemy's gun boats were, and what they were doing . . . . Perhaps this was the only war in which the newspapers ever explained, before-hand, all the movements of armies and fleets, to the enemy." U.S.S. Maratanza, under Commander Scott, was damaged by Confederate battery at Cape Fear River, North Carolina, and was forced to retire seaward.

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Gen Ned Simms
2/XVI Corps/AotT
Blood 'n Guts hisself, a land lovin' pirate. Show me some arty tubes and we'll charge 'em.
VMI Class of '00

October 12, 1862 Sunday
Stuart’s Confederate cavalry, after brief skirmishing near the mouth of the Monocacy River in Maryland, crossed the Potomac back into Virginia near Poolesville, completing another ride around McClellan. There was skirmishing near Arrow Rock, Missouri and at Dick’s Ford, Kentucky. Confederate Maj Gen Earl Van Dorn assumed command of all troops in Mississippi. President Lincoln, worried by Buell’s follow-up in Kentucky, continued to inquire for reports from the West. A Federal expedition that would last until the nineteenth started from Ozark, Missouri toward Yellville, Arkansas. U.S.S. Restless, commanded by Acting Lieutenant Conroy, captured blockade running schooner Elmira Cornelius off the South Carolina coast.

Commander Matthew Fontaine Maury, on board blockade runner Herald, departed Charleston for England to attempt to purchase vessels for the Confederacy. Midshipman James M. Morgan, who accompanied Maury, recorded an interesting incident that demonstrated that the "Pathfinder of the Seas" had lost none of his famed abilities. The captain of Herald, according to Morgan, was new to deep water sail, lost his way, and "told Commander Maury that something terrible must have happened, as he had sailed his ship directly over the spot where the Bermuda Islands ought to be." Maury advised him to slow down till evening when he could shoot the stars - At that time, having obtained a fix, Maury gave the captain a course and speed that would raise the light at Port Hamilton about 2 o'clock in the morning. Maury and his son turned in; the rest anxiously stayed up to watch: "four bells struck and no light was in sight. Five minutes more passed and still not a sign of it; then grumbling commenced and the passengers generally agreed with the man who expressed the opinion that there was too much D . . . d science on board . . . at 10 minutes past 2 the masthead lookout called 'Light Ho!' " Lacking funds and under close scrutiny by Union officials who immediately protested through diplomatic channels any attempts to outfit vessels for the Confederacy, Maury, like other Confederate agents, met with only limited success. Nonetheless, he did purchase and arrange for the outfitting of C.S.S. Georgia the following spring. Maury was adamant in his opinion that the South had to pursue a policy that would bring about the existence of an effective Navy. Earlier he had written under the pseudonym of Ben Dow: "We cannot, either with cotton or with all the agricultural staples of the Confederacy put together, adopt any course which will make cotton and trade stand us as a nation in the stead of a navy."

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Gen Ned Simms
2/XVI Corps/AotT
Blood 'n Guts hisself, a land lovin' pirate. Show me some arty tubes and we'll charge 'em.
VMI Class of '00