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Tuesday, January 3, 2012

3 January 1863: Saturday

Union - Military
Tennessee

Two brigades of Union troops push forward near Murfreesboro in a mild attack on Southern lines near Stone's River.

Confederacy - Military
Tennessee

During the night, Bragg's Confederate Army of Tennessee, despite apparent victory in the first stages of the battle, withdraw from Murfreesboro toward tullahoma.

There are skirmishes at Somersville and Insane Asylum, Cox's Hill, or Blood's.

West Virginia
A Confederate attack on Moorfield fails.

Mississippi
There is a skirmish at Burnsfield.
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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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