2 March, 1862: Sunday

Confederate - Military
Kentucky
The final units of the Confederate garrison of the batteries of Columbus, Kentucky, under the command of General Polk, pull out, leaving the town and the bluffs on the Mississippi to the Union. 138 of the 140 guns were taken by the Confederates south to Isnd No. 10, and nearby batteries, as Island No. 10 and Fort Pillow were the new Mississippi River posts. The last fragment of the Confederate Kentucjky line is now gone, and new defense points were mainly in Tennessee and Northern Mississippi.

Missouri
There is a light skirmish near New Madrid, Missouri, as advance Union units arrived to figght the Confederates.

New Mexico Territory
In the far Southwest, H.H. Sibley's Confederates, marching north along the Rio GRande in their invasion of New Mexico territory, forced the abandonment of Albuquerque by Union forces.

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