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Thursday, November 3, 2011

3 November 1862: Monday

Union - Military
Missouri

There is a skirmish near Harrisonville.

Georgia/Florida
Union regiments, including the First South Carolina Volunteers (all troops of African descent), under Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson, go on an expedition along the coasts of Georgia and east Florida until Nov 10.

Confederacy - Military
Virginia

Longstreet's corps arrives at Culpepper Court House, thus getting in front of McClellan, who was in the Warrenton area. Jackson's corps of Lee's army remains in the Shenandoah Valley

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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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