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Friday, January 6, 2012

6 January 1863: Tuesday

Union - Military
Missouri

There is a skirmish along Linn Creek. There is also a skirmish at Fort Lawrence, Beaver Station (part of the raid by Confederate John S. Marmaduke.)

Alabama
A British steamer is seized Mobile by the blockaders - one of the numerous captures by the day-in, day out blockade of the Confederate coast.

Confederacy - Military
Tennessee

Confederates capture a Northern riverboat, Jacob Musselman, near Memphis.
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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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