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Tuesday, January 8, 2013

8 January 1862, Wednesday

Confederacy - Government
President Davis continues to correspond via letter with the governors of various Confederate states, including Claiborne Jackson of Mississippi, emphasizing that their states were not being deliberately neglected and that the Confederacy needed manpower.

Union - Military
Missouri
Union soldiers rout a Confederate camp at Roan's Tan Yard on Silver Creek, Missouri.

There is a skirmish at Charleston, Missouri

Western Virginia
There is a skirmish on the Dry Fork of Cheat River, western Virhinia.

Kentucky
There is a skirmish near Somerset on Fishing Creek, Kentucky.


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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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