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Sunday, December 26, 2010

27 December, 1861, Friday

Union - political
Representative Alfred Ely of New York arrives in Washington from Richmond, VA, where he had been a prisoner of war since his capture in July while watching the Battle of Bull Run/Manassas.

News of the release of the Confederate commissioners Mason and Slidell arrives in the newspapers in both North and South.

Confederate and Union armies settle in to winter quarters.

Missouri
A skirmish breaks out at Hallsville, Missouri

Bibliography
The Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865. E.B. Long with Barbara Long, De Capo, 1971

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