24 September 1862: Wednesday

Union - Government
President Lincoln issues a new proclamation suspending the privilege of the writ of habeus corpus and providing for military trial of "all Rebels and Insurgents, their aiders and abettors within the United States, and all persons discouraging voluntary enlistments, resisting militia drafts, or guilty of disloyal practice, affording comfort to Rebels against the authority of the United States."

Regarding the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln told a crowd, "I can only trust in God I have made no mistake."

Fourteen Northern governors meet in Altoona, Pennsylvania and approve emancipation, although the conference had been called earlier by those deploring the Administration's policy on slavery and the unsatisfactory progress of the war.

The Secretary of War creates the office of Provost Marshall General.

Union - Military/Government
Major General Samuel R. Curtis assumes command of the Federal Department of Missouri.

Union - Military
South Carolina
There is a skirmish at Skull Creek.

Missouri
There is a skirmish at Granby.

Texas
There is a skirmish at Sabine Pass.

Confederacy - Military/Government
Confederate General P.G.T Beauregard supersedes Major General John C. Pemberton in command of the Department of South Carolina and Georgia.

The Confederate Senate adopts a seal for the Confederacy.

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