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Civil War Recap Fifty Years Ago This Week
A 1862 timeline notes Union and Confederate actions from Tennessee to Virginia. Battles near Fredericksburg and Plymouth, rail and salt works targets, raids from Nashville and North Carolina, and naval actions including Port Royal and Yazoo river events are summarized with key figures such as Burnside Lee Butler and Banks.
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Comvocracy
Crecg
Murfreesboro
Tenn
Tuscumbia
Ala
Sovernor Johnson
Tennessee
Cty
Nashville
Foster
Carolina
South Weet Creek
New S
Kinston
National War Committee of the Citizens of
New York
Congress
Alabama
General Bank
Red River
Akansas
New Orleans
General Hovey
Islena
Geurvral Butler
Banks
Department of the Gulf
Pla’ers
Army of the Gulf
En Orient
Department
Iil
W. G. Chapman
Port Royal
Rappahannock River
Virginia
Teazer
Plymouth
N. C
Southfield
Deen
West Virginia
Senate
United States
House of Representatives
J. Westy Green
New York Evening Post
Jefferson Davis
Washington
Lincoln
Cabinet
Cairo
Yazoo River
Colonel Jones
Sixth Missouri Cavalry
Warrensburg
Minnesota
Newbern
Vance
North Carolina
Fredericksburg
Burnsides
Illinois
Corinth
Miss
John H. Morgan
Ferry
Suffolk
Blackwater
Zuni
Essex
Winona
Port Hudson
Stuart
Dumfries