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Monday, August 8, 2011

8 August 1862: Friday

Foreign - England
British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston states at a banquet that Britain would continue to preserve "a strict and rigid neutrality."

Union - Government/Military
The Federal War Department issues orders to prevent evasion of military duty and for suppression of disloyal activities.

Maryland
Arrests are made in Baltimore to prevent those trying to evade the draft from leaving the area.

Alabama
In Huntsville, after a series of firing into trains by Confederate guerillas, the Federal authorities order that ministers and leading churchmen who had been active seccessionists be arrested and one each day be placed on board the trains.

Union - Military
Missouri

There is fighting on Panther Creek, near Newtonia, and near Stocktonn in Macon County.

Virginia
There are skirmishes at Slaughter's House and near Madison Court House


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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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