27 November 1862: Thursday

Union - Government
President Lincoln spends the morning at Aquia Creek, Virginia, conferring with General Burnside. The general favored a direct assault on Lee at Fredericksburg, but Lincoln proposed building up a force south of the Rappahannock and another on the Pamunkey for a three-pronged attack. Burnside turned down the President's plan.

Union - Military
Tennessee
There is a skirmish at Mill Creek.

Missouri
There is a skirmish at Carthage

Mississippi
A Union expedition "probes" near Grenada from this day until December 6.

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