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Civil War Dispatches From May 1862 Headlines
A retrospective from May 13 to 19 1862 reports martial law in Charleston W Va Confederate near Norfolk and Richmond Union advances near Corinth and Vicksburg plus Butler’s controversial orders in New Orleans and Lincoln’s proclamations detailing military movements and key skirmishes across multiple states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
D. C
Fremont
Franklin
W. Va
Schenck
Milroy
McClellan
Army of the Potomac
Stonewall Jackson
Richmond
Halleck
Monterey
Miss
Butler
New Orleans
New Orleans Crescent
Kelly
Reedy Creek
Virginia
Suffolk
Major Dodge
Smith
Tenn
Davis
Negley
Regereville
Alabama
Geary
U. S
Monitor
Galena
Naugatuck
Aroostook
Port Royal
Fort Darling
James River
General Assembly
Letcher
Senate of
Collier
Batesville
Arkansas
United States
President Lincoln
John D. Wool
Norfolk
Sewell’s Point
Craney Island
Merrimac
Wool
Cape Hatteras
Carolina
Gen. Butler
New Orleans Bee
Darien
Georgia
National Intelligencer
Gen. Hunter
Commodore Goldsborough
Corinth
Mississippi
Sherman
Russell
Henry Eagle
Galveston
Texas
Herbert
Currituck
Seth Low
Pamunkey
Newcastle
Penobscot
Newlet Inset
Wilmington
North Carolina
Searcy
Little Red River
Osterhouse
Coleman
Kicks
Princeton
Cox
Humphrey Marshall
Phillips Lee
United States Navy
Mississippi River
Vicksburg
Suffolds
Gen. Grant
Yazoo
Stoneman
Whitehouse
Turnstabull
Hunter
Florida
South Carolina
Lincoln
Yates
Illinois
Clinton
Newbern
House of Delegates
Sheffey
Augusta
John T. Monroe
Fort Jackson
National Army
W. G. Chapman