Today in Civil War History January 3

TODAY IN CIVIL WAR HISTORY
January 3

TIMELINES

Robert E. Lee
Abraham Lincoln
Fort Sumter

MILITARY & POLITICAL

1861

1862

1863

Affair at Plaquemine. Louisiana
Skirmish at Burnsville. Mississippi
Grant's Campaign in Central Mississippi (Oct. 31, 1862-Jan. 10, 1863). Mississippi
Union Operations against Nathan Bedford Forrest (Dec. 18, 1862-Jan. 3, 1863). Mississippi
Skirmish at Brownsville. Missouri
Operations against Marmaduke (Dec. 31, 1862-Jan. 25, 1863). Missouri
Skirmish at Blood's Hill. Tennessee
Skirmish near Clifton. Tennessee
Skirmish at Cox's Hill. Tennessee
Skirmish at Insane Asylum Corners. Tennessee
Skirmish at Lexington. Tennessee
Skirmish at Nashville. Tennessee
Action at Somerville. Tennessee
Carter's Raid into East Tennessee & Southwest Virginia (Dec. 20, 1862-Jan. 5, 1863). Tennessee
Stone's River or Murfreesboro Campaign (Dec. 26, 1862-Jan. 3, 1863). Tennessee
Skirmish at Glaveston. Texas

1865

Operations at Hermitage Plantation near Morganza (Dec. 14-Jan. 5). Louisiana
Skirmish at Mechanicsburg. Mississippi
Skirmish at Hardeesville. South Carolina
Carolinas Campaign (Jan. 1-April 29, 1865). South Carolina & North Carolina MORE
Siege of Petersburg and Richmond (June 16, 1864-April 2, 1865). Virginia
Expedition from Fort Monroe, Virginia, to Fort Fisher, North Carolina (Jan. 3 - Jan. 15). Virginia & North Carolina

BIRTHS

Thomas E. Bramlette Union General & Governor of Kentucky, 1863-1867 (1817)
Thomas Hill Watts Confederate Field Officer, Confederate Attorney General, Governor of Alabama (1819)
Marcellus Stanley Confederate Field Officer (1823)
Samuel N. Benjamin Union Field Officer (1839)
Oliver Blachly Knowles Union Brevet Brigadier General (1842)

DEATHS