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Sunday, October 23, 2011

23 October 1862: Thursday

Confederacy - Government
President Davis writes of his worries over the pro-Union sentiments of East Tennessee.

Confederacy - Military
Tennessee

Bragg's Confederate army passes into Tennessee through Cumberland Gap on their retreat from Kentucky.

There are skirmishes at Waverly and Richland Creek.

Missouri
There is a skirmish at Clarkton.

Kentucky
The Goose Creek Salt Works near Manchester are destroyed by Union soldiers.

CSS Alabama continues to prowl the seas and successfully raid Federal shipping.
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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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