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Tuesday, August 2, 2011

2 August 1862: Saturday

Government - Union - Diplomacy
England

Secretary of State Seward instructed Minister to Great Britain Charles Francis Adams to neither receive nor discuss any offers of mediation of the war by Great Britain.

Union - Military
Virginia

Elements of the Army of Virginia under John Pope advance on Orange Court House and skirmish with Confederates.

Forces from Harrison's Landing reoccupy Malvern Hills.

Missouri
There is a skirmish at Clear Creek, near Taberville.

Arkansas
There is a skirmish at Jonesborough.

Mississippi
There are skirmishes near Totten's Plantation, Coahoma County and at Austin in Tunica County




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

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