6 July 1862: Sunday

Union - Military
North Carolina
Major General Ambrose Burnside sails with reinforcements from the Army of the Potomac on the James.

Arkansas
There is a skirmish at Bayou Cache.

Missouri
There is a skirmish at Salem.

Also in Missouri, Union troops scout from Waynesville to the Big Piney, and another toward Blackwater and Chapel Hill.

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