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Saturday, November 26, 2011

26 November 1862: Wednesday

Union - Government
President Lincoln steams down the Potomac to Belle Plain for a conference with General Burnside.

Confederacy - Government
President Davis writes the governors of the Confederate states appealing for aid in enrolling conscripts and forwarding them to rendezvous, in restoring to the Army all absent without leave, and in securing more supplies for army use. He also called for the use of slave labor on defense works.

Military - Union
Tennessee

There is a skirmish near Somerville.

Missouri
There is a skirmish in Jackson County, and in Lafayette County.

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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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