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Thursday, December 29, 2011

29 December 1862: Monday - Battle of Chickasaw Bayou, Mississippi

Union - Military
Mississippi

Sherman's forces advance through destructive fire toward the foot of the bluffs north of Vicksburg near Chickasaw Bayou. However, the advance is stymied by a relatively small portion of Pemberton's troops. The Confederates' position was simply too strong to storm.

Union casualties208 killed
1,005 wounded
563 missing
1,776 out of about 31,000 effectives

Confederate casualties
63 killed
134 wounded
10 missing
207 casualties out of about 14,000 engaged

Tennessee
Skirmishes take place on the road to Murdreesboro from Nashville, at Lizard between Triune and Murfreesboro and at Wilkerson's Cross Road.

S. P. Carter in his east Tennessee expedition passes Moccasin Gap and captures a small group of Confederates on the Blountsville Road.

Louisiana
A skirmish takes place near Plaquemine.

Confederates - Military
Kentucky

Morgan and his troops skirmish near Johnson's Ferry/Hamilton's Ford on Rolling Fork, and he captured a stockade at Boston.
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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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