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Thursday, November 17, 2011

17 November 1862: Monday

Confederacy - Government
President Davis names Major General G. W. Smith temporary Secretary of War.

Union - Military
Virginia

General Sumner's Right Grand Division of the Army of the Potomac arrives at Falmouth on the bluffs across the Rapahannock from Fredericksburg, with light skirmishing.

There is a fight near Carrsville.

Missouri
There are skirmishes near Cassville and Keetsville.




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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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