23 August 1862: Saturday

Confederate - Military
Virginia
Confederates capture a train between Harper's Ferry and Winchester.

Union - Military/Government
Union major general Horatio G. Wright assumes command of the Department of the Ohio.

Union - Military
Missouri
Skirmishes occur at Four Mile, Hickory Grove, and near Wayman's Mill/Spring Creek.

West Indies
The US sloop of war Adirondack is wrecked on a coral reef near Little Abaco, but the crew was saved.

Louisiana
There is a skirmish at Bayou Sara

Kentucky
There is a skirmish at Trinity

Tennessee
There is a skirmish near Fort Donelson

Virginia
Skirmishes occur at Rappahannock Station, Beverly Ford, Fant's Ford, Smithfield, and Sulphur/Warrenton Springs.


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