10 Jan 1863: Saturday

Union - government President Lincoln writes to Major GEneral Curtis in St. Louis, expressing his concern with the slave problem in Missouri. Major General Fitz John Porter is sentenced by court marial to be cashiered from theArmy for his alleged failure to obey orders at Second Manassas. Union - Military Arkansas Union forces under McClernand, who had arrived on 9 Jan, near Arkansas Post (Fort Hindman), about 50 miles up the Arkansas River from its junction with the Mississippi. Late in the morning, McClernand started his envelopment of the Confederate fort and drove in upon the outer earthworks. Bombardment from naval forces stopped Confederate artillery. Inside the fort, Confederate Brigadier General T. J. Churchill and his troops waited. There is a skirmish at Carrollton. Tennessee There is a skirmish at Clifton. Texas Union warships bombard Galveston. ________________ Bibliography
The Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865. E.B. Long with Barbara Long, De Capo, 1971