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Friday, October 21, 2011

21 October 1862: Tuesday

Confederacy - Government
President Jefferson Davis writes to Major General T. H. Holmes in Missouri of tentative plans to have Southern armies join together to drive Union soldiers frrom Tennessee and Arkansas and recapture Helena, Memphis, and Nashville.

Union - Government
President Lincoln calls upon military and civil authorities in Tennessee to support elections for a state government, legislature and members of Congress.

Union - Military
Virginia

Union troops launch a reconnaissance from Loudon Heights to Lovettsville.

Tennessee
There is a skirmish at Woodville.

Kentucky
There is a skirmish at Pittman's Crossroads.


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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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