16 October 1862: Thursday

Union - Civilian/Military
Pennsylvania
The draft begins in Pennsylvania and other portions of the North.

Union - Military/Government
The Federal Department of Tennessee is constituted under command of Maj Gen Ulysses S. Grant.

Union - Military
Maryland
General McClellan launches two major Union reconnaissances from Sharpsburg, Maryland to Smithfield, Western Virginia and from Harpers Ferry (western Virginia) to Charles Town, Western Virginia, with some resultant skirmishes.

Confederacy - Military
Virginia
Robert E. Lee's army remains in the northern portion of the Shenandoah Valley.

Kentucky
Braxton Bragg and his troops move slowly toward Cumberland Gap without major interference.

There are skirmishes at Mountain gap and Mount Vernon.

Missouri
There is a skirmish at Auxvasse Creek in Callaway County and at Portland

Arkansas
There is a skirmish at Shell's Mill and Elkhorn Tavern.



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