13 August 1862: Wednesday

Confederacy - Military
Virginia
Preliminary orders are issued for the movement of the remainder of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia from the Peninsula toward Gordonsville, as what was to become the Second Manassas Campaign got under way.

Union - military
Virginia
The steamers George Peabody and West Point collide in the Potomac River, with the loss of 73 lives, many of them convalescent soldiers of Burnside's corps.

There are reconnaissances and skirmishes toward Orange Court House.

Missouri
There are skirmishes on Yellow Creek/Muscle Fork, Chariton River.

Tennessee
There are skirmishes at Huntsville and Medon.

South Carolina
There is a skirmish on Black River.

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