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Thursday, April 21, 2011

21 April, 1862: Monday

Confederacy - Government
The regular Confederate Congress adjourns after declaring certain classes of persons exempt from military conscription. President Davis is concerned over the two-program attack of McClellan and McDowell toward Richmond.

Confederacy - Military
Arkansas

There is a skirmish at Pocahontas, Arjansas.

Louisiana
The Confederate forts on the Mississippi continue to be shelled by mortars.

North Carolina
Union troops continue to lay seige to the city.


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

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