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Thursday, September 29, 2011

29 September 1862: Monday

Confederacy - Military
Mississippi

The Army of West Tennessee, 22,000 strong under Van Dorn, marched out of Ripley, Mississippi heading toward Corinth.

Union - Military/Government
Major General John F. REynolds assumes command of the First Army Corps.

Kentucky

Union Brigadier General Jefferson Columbus Davis shot and mortally wounded Brigadier General William "Bull" Nelson during a quarrel in a hotel in Louisville.

Kentucky
There is a skirmish on the Elizabethtown Road, and near New Haven.

Virginia
A Union expedition from Centreville to Warrenton and Buckland Mills.

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

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