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1863-03-131863-03-15Deep Gully

After an initial success at Deep Gully Confederate Gen Hill marched against the well-entrenched Federals at Fort Anderson. Hill was forced to retire upon the arrival of Union gunboats. He then moved to threaten Washington, North Carolina.

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1863-03-05Thompson's Station

A reinforced Union infantry brigade, under John Coburn is surrounded and captured. Union influence in middle Tennessee waned.

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1863-03-03Fort McAllister I

Rear Adm Du Pont ordered three ironclads to test their guns by attacking the Confederate defenses at Fort McAllister. One of his goals was to determine how effective fire from the monitors' guns would be against an earthen battery.

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1863-02-03Fort Donelson

Confederate Gen. Joseph Wheeler, unable to disrupt Union shipping in the area, decided to attack the garrison at Dover. The unsuccessful attack left the Union in control in Middle Tennesse.

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1863-01-29Massacre at Boa Ogoi

When the ammunition ran out for the Shoshoni warriors, the battle quickly turned into a massacre. US Army soldiers raped and killed women and children in the encampment.

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1863-01-091863-01-11Hartville

Despite causing great disruption toFederal forces, the other major objective of this raid, the depot at Springfield, remained in Union hands. The escape of the raiding party did foreshadow the vulnerability of Federal Missouri to fast-moving expeditions.

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1863-01-091863-01-11Fort Hindman

The Confederate Army constructed a large, four-sided earthwork fortification near Arkansas Post, on a bluff 25 feet above the north side of the river, forty-five miles downriver from Pine Bluff, to protect the Arkansas River and prevent Union Army pas...

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1863-01-08Springfield

Union troops repel a Confederate raid on this important supply depot. Fighting was urban and house-to-house, which was rare in the war.

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1863-01-01Galveston

Confederate forces under Maj. Gen. John B. Magruder attacked and expelled occupying Union troops from the city of Galveston, Texas.

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1862-12-31Parker's Cross Roads

As Confederate Gen Nathan Bedford Forrest's expedition into West Tennessee neared its conclusion, Union Gen Jeremiah Sullivan, with the brigades of Cols Cyrus Dunham and John Fuller, attempted to cut Forrest off from withdrawing across the Tennes...

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