2 January 1863: Battle of Murfreesboro

Union - Civilian
Salutes, celebrations and meetings follow the emancipation proclamation in many Northern cities.

Confederacy - Civilian
In Richmond, belt tightening and high prices are the order of the day.

Confederacy - Military
Tennessee
The main fighting at Murfreesboro was on the northeast side side of Stone's River. John C. Breckinridge's Confederates succeeded in taking a small hill, only to be driven off with great loss by Union guns and a counter charge. Again the armies of Bragg and Rosencrans paused on the battlefield, each expecting or hoping the other would withdraw.

Casualties
Union
1677 killed
7543 wounded
3686 missing
12,906 out of estimated 41,400 effectives

Confederates
1204 killed
7945 wounded
2500 missing
11,739 out of estimated effectives of 35,000

Both Nathan Bedford Forrest and and John Morgan complete their campaigns. Morgan recrosses the Cumberland River, Forrest recrosses the Tennessee at Clifton.

Arkansas
Confederate raider John s. Marmaduke skirmishes with Union troops at White Springs and Boston Mountain in his advance on Missouri which had started from Lewisburg on December 31.


Union - Military
Mississippi
North of Vicksburg on the Yazoo, Sherman gives up his hopeless drive against the bluffs and withdraws to the Mississippi, where his forces come under the orders of McClernand.

Missouri
Union troops reoccupy New Madrid.
______________
Bibliography
The Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865. E.B. Long with Barbara Long, De Capo, 1971