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Thursday, January 5, 2012

5 January 1863: Monday

Union - Government
President Lincoln tenders the thanks of the country to General Rosecrans for his Tennessee victory.

Confederacy - Government
In Richmond, President Davis, being welcomes home from his trip out west, tells a serenading crowd that the Confederacy was the last hope for "the perpetuation of that system of government which our forefathers founded-the asylum of the oppressed and the home of true representative liberty." He continued: "Every crime which could characterize the course of demons has marked the course of the invader."

Confederacy
West Virginia

Confederate raid near Moorefield.

Union - Military
Virginia

General Burnside, pinned down in Fredericksburg, writes President Lincoln that despite the opinion of his subordinate officers he still thought a crossing of the Rapahannock should be attempted. Again he formally tendered his resignation,, "to relieve you from all embarrasment in my case."

A skirmish occurs at Cub Run.

Tennessee

Union troops enter Murfreesboro.

Skirmishes occur at Lytle's Creek, on the Manchester Pike, and on the Shelbyville Pike.


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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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