Posted on 03/05/2023 6:27:01 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
WASHINGTON, Wednesday, March 4.
The closing scenes in Congress to-day were respectable, and not unimpressive. Proper decorum was generally observed, and the immense audience audience in the galleries manifested a decorous interest in the proceedings.
The Appropriations made by the Thirty-seventh Congress are as follows:
Extra Session, July, 1861, about $264,000,000.
Long Session, ending 17th July, 1862, $913,000,000.
Short Session, ending March 4, 1863, $1,100,000,000
Receipts from duties on imports, Internal Revenue, direct taxes, sale of public lands, &c., and estimates from March 4, 1861, to July 1, 1864, $320,000,000 -which, deducted from the above sum, will leave the amount of indebtedness up to July 1, 1874, including the $70,000,000 debt left by the last Administration,
$2,027,000,000.
All the nominations, military and naval, before the Senate, and also those before the Military Committee, several hundred in all, will have to be returned to the Senate in Executive Session by the President. The session, it is believed, will last several days, owing to the large amount of Executive business. The time to-morrow will be taken up principally in organizing the Standing Committees for the Thirty-eighth Congress.
The reduction of tax on paper to 20 per cent. only applies to paper used by newspapers. The finer quality of paper used by book publishers, is not included, and this fact has caused considerable astonishment among that large class of paper consumers. They allege that it was principally through their exertions that the tax was reduced at all. Congress, however, "didn't see it."
Profound astonishment is created here by the sensational paragraphs in some of the New-York journals of to-day. The Government is indebted to dispatches of a Memphis paper for news of the evacuation of Vicksburgh by the rebels, and to a rural sheet in Massachusetts for the details from Georgia,
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Important from Washington: The Adjournment of the Thirty-seventh Congress – 2-3
Important Rebel News: The Steamer Nashville Destroyed by Our Iron-clads – 3
News from Fort Monroe: Capture of Contraband Goods – 3
Late News from Vicksburgh: Detailed Account of the Loss of the Ram Queen of the West – 3
Editorial: The Case of Gen. McDowell – 3-4
Editorial: Compensated Emancipation – The Condition of Missouri – 4
Matters in Louisiana – 4
Tennessee 1862- '63 Engagements
| Date | Engagement | Military Units | Losses | Victor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 6 | Fort Henry, TN | Union Army of TN + West Flotilla (Grant, Foote ~15,000) & Confederate Army of Cent KY (Tilghman ~3,200) | Union 40-total, Confederates 79-total (15 killed) | USA |
| Feb 14-16 | Fort Donelson, TN | Union Army of the Tennessee + Mississippi River Squadron (Grant, Foote 24,531) & Confederate Army of Central KY + garrison (Floyd, Pillow, Buchner 16,171) | Union 2,691-total (507-killed), Confederates 13,846-total (327-killed) | USA |
| April 6-7 | Shiloh, TN | Union Army of West Tennessee (Grant, Buell ~63,000) & Confederate Army of Mississippi (AS Johnson, Beauregard ~40,335) | Union 13,047-total (1,754-killed), Confederate 10,699-total (1,728-killed) | USA |
| April 14 | Fort Pillowi, TN | Union mortor boats bombard Fort Pillow | none | CSA |
| May 10 | Plum Run Bend, TN | Union MS River Squadron (7-river ironclads), Confederate River Defense Fleet (9-wooden steamboats) | none recorded | CSA |
| June 6 | Memphis, TN | Union MS Flotilla (Davis, Ellet+), Confederate River Defense Fleet (Montgomery, Thompson) | Union 1- total, Confederates 250-total (~35-killed) | USA |
| June 7-8 | Chattanooga, TN | Union Army of OH (Negley 1 division), Confederate Army of KY (EK Smith) | Union 23-total, Confederates 65-total | USA |
| July 13 | Murfreesboro, TN | Union hospital & PA cavalry (Crittended ~900, Confederate Cavalry (Forrest ~1,400) | Union 890-total (0-killed), Confederates ~150-total (0-killed) | CSA |
| Aug 30 | Bolivar, TN | Union Army of the MS, (Leggett ~1,000), Confederate Army of the West (Armstrong -1,000) | Union unknown, Confederates unknown | Inconclusive |
| Oct 5 | Hatchie's Bridge, TN | Union Army of MS (Ord, Hurlbut, 12,000), Confederate Army of West TN (Van Dorn, Price ~20,000) | Union 500-total (75?-killed), Confederates 400-total (60?-killed) | USA |
| Dec 7 | Hartville, TN | Union XIV Corps (Moore ~2,400), Confederate Cavalry (John Hunt Morgan ~1,300) | Union 2,096-total (unknwn-killed), Confederates 139-total (unkwn-killed) | CSA (CSA outnumbered, Union surrender) |
| Dec 30 | Parker's Cross Roads, TN | Union Army of TN (Sullivan ~3,000), Confederate Army of TN (Nathan Bedford Forrest~1,600) | Union 237-total (31-killed?), Confederates 500-total (75?-killed) | CSA? (CSA outnumbered) |
| Dec 31-Jan 2, 1863 | Murfreesboro / Stones River, TN | Union Army of the Cumberland (Rosecrans ~43,400), Confederate Army of TN (Bragg ~35,000) | Union 13,906-total (1,677-killed?), Confederates 11,739-total (1,294-killed) | USA |
| Feb 3 | Dover, TN | Union garrison (Connor ~800), Confederate Army of TN (Wheeler ~2,500) | Union 126-total (19?-killed), Confederates 670-total (100?-killed) | USA(Union outnumbered) |
| Mar 4-5 | Thompson's Station, TN | Union Dept of Cuimberland (Coburn ~2,000), Confederate Cavalry Corps (Van Dorn ~4,000) | Union 1,906-total (33-killed), Confederates ~300-total (25?-killed) | CSA (Union surrendered) |
Thompson Station was the war's 175th engagement and makes Confederate and Union victories even in the Confederacy at 41 each.
Summary of Civil War Engagements as of March 5, 1863:
Engagements in Confederate states:
| State | Union Victories | Confederate Victories | Inconclusive | Total Engagements |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| Virginia | 7 | 27 | 12 | 46 |
| North Carolina | 7 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
| Florida | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Louisiana | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Tennessee | 8 | 6 | 1 | 15 |
| Arkansas | 8 | 0 | 2 | 10 |
| Georgia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Mississippi | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| Texas | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Total Engagements in CSA | 41 | 41 | 17 | 99 |
Engagements in Union states/territories:
| State | Union Victories | Confederate Victories | Inconclusive | Total Engagements |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| West Virginia | 9 | 3 | 2 | 14 |
| Missouri | 14 | 13 | 1 | 28 |
| New Mexico | 5 | 8 | 0 | 13 |
| Kentucky | 5 | 6 | 2 | 13 |
| Oklahoma | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| Total Engagements in Union | 37 | 33 | 6 | 76 |
| Total Engagements to date | 78 | 74 | 23 | 175 |
Union surrender brought battle casualties to over 2,200 including about 55 killed, and brought the war's totals to over 304,000 casualties, including nearly 35,000 killed in action.
“After a month of relative quiet in the war, a battle on March 4 to 5, about 30 miles south of Nashville, at Thompson Station, Tennessee — Confederate General Earl Van Dorn’s Cavalry Corps consisting of “Red” Jackson’s and Nathan Bedford Forrest’s divisions won a hard-fought victory over John Coburn’s Union brigade of two regiments, forcing Coburn’s surrender.”
Read all about it on today’s post on the Harper’s Weekly thread. Read about poor old Roderick as well.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4134481/posts#15
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