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Friday, March 18, 2011

18 March, 1862: Tuesday - corrected!

Government - Confederacy
Judah P. Benjamin, often criticized for his management of the War Department, was named Secretary of State by President Davis, to succeed R.M. T. Hunter, who had resigned to go to the Senate.

George W. Randolph was appointed Secretary of WAr. General Thomas Bragg stepped down for Thomas H. Watts of Alabama.

The shifts represented internal politics of the Confederate government and its war-long search for an able Secretary of War.

Confederacy - Military
Mississippi:
The first units from General Albert Sidney Johnston's men from Murfeesboro began arriving in Corinth...and will continue to do so until March 24.

Virginia
There is a skirmish at Middletown

Missouri
There is a skirmish at Point Pleasant, part of Union General Pope's drive on Island No. 10.



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

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