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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

29 March, 1862: Saturday

Military - Confederate
Mississippi
At Corinth, Mississippi, the Confederate Armies of Kentucky and the Mississippi are consolidated under General Albert Sidney Johnston. P. G. t. Beauregard was second-in-command, with corps under Leonidas Polk, Braxton Bragg, William J. Hardee, and George Bibb Crittenden.

Military - Union
Major General John C. Fremont took command of the Mountain Department in western Virginia from William S. Rosecrans.

South Carolina
There is a skirmish at Edisto Island, South Carolina.

Missouri
There is a skirmish on the Blackwater near Warrensburg, 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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