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Monday, May 2, 2011

2 May 1862: Friday

Uinion - Government/Military
Edward Stanley is appointed military governor of North Carolina.

Military - Confederacy
Mississippi
General Beauregard calls on the soldiers of the Confederacy to defend Corinth, Mississippi from the invading "despoilers of our homes," as the Union army under Halleck begins to move toward the Southern concentration point.

Virginia
There are skirmishes at Trevilian's Depot and Louisa Court House.

Aekansas
There is a skirmish at Litchfield.

North Carolina
There is a skirmish at Trenton Road.




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

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