Union - GovernmentDisturbed ever since Antietam about operations of the Army of the Potomac, or the lack of them, President Lincoln, with a party advisers, journeys from Washington to Harper’s Ferry to confer with McClellan and other officers.
The Union gunboat flotilla on western waters is transferred, administratively, from the War Department to the Department of the Navy.
David Dixon Porter is named Commander of the new Mississippi Squadron, replacing Charles Davis.
Confederates – Civilian
The Richmond Whig says of the Emancipation Proclamation: “It is a dash of the pen to destroy four thousand millions of our property, and is as much a bid for the slaves to rise in insurrection, with the assurance of aid from the whole military and naval power of the United States.
Confederates – Government/Military
Major General John C. Pemberton is given command of the new Confederate Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana, replacing Van Dorn. His main duty is the defense of Vicksburg on the Mississippi, which everyone knows is the aim of Union operations in that area.
Confederates – Military
Kentucky
Braxton Bragg’s campaign is reaching its climax in Kentucky. The cities located on the Ohio River had been successfully defended by troops under Don Carlos Buell, but there is fighting on the Bardsville Pike near Mount Washington and on Fern Creek along the Louisville and Frankfort Road.
Maryland
There is much skirmishing between Confederate and Union cavalry along the Potomac near Sharpsburg.
There is much skirmishing between Confederate and Union cavalry near Shepherdstown and Martinsburg.
Mississippi
There is fighting at Ruckersville.
Tennessee
There is fighting at Davis Bridge and near Nashville.
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BibliographyThe Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865. E.B. Long with Barbara Long, De Capo, 1971
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