3 June 1862: Tuesday (Evacuation of Fort Pillow, TN begins)

Confederates - Government
President Davis is 54 on this day. He writes his wife: It is hard to see incompetence losing opportunity and wasting hard-gotten means, but harder still to bear, is the knowledge that there is no available remedy."

Confederates - Military
Tennessee
The fall of Corinth, Mississippi to the Union broke the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, a vital Confederate east-west link. It also rendered the northern outposts of the South on the Mississippi useless and practically doomed the city of Memphis, Tennessee.

Beginning on this day, the Confederates at Fort Pillow, threatened by the Navy flotilla north of them, had no recourse but to take all the guns they could and pull out. The earthworks on the bluff above the river were vacated completely by the night of June 4. Only a weak Confederate Navy flotilla remained between the Union troops and Memphis.

Virginia
In the Shenandoah, Stonewall Jackson continues his withdrawal southward.

Union - Military
Virginia
Along the Chickahominy, General McClellan sent out a reconnaissance to the James to make contact with the Union river boats.

South Carolina
There is a skirmish on James Island, not far from Charleston, as Union troops begin their drive to take or render impotent the city where the war had its inception.

Mississippi
There is skirmishing at Blackland and a reconnaissance toward Baldwyn and Carrollsville south of Corinth.

Halleck studies the Confederate dispositions at Tupelo.


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