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Friday March 29 1861
  • Fort Mason, TX, is abandoned by the Union forces.
  • President Abraham Lincoln, decides to send a force to supply the troops at Fort Sumter, SC, in lieu of an evacuation.
Saturday March 29 1862
  • The Confederate Armies of Kentucky and Mississippi are consolidated under the Army of the Mississippi with the following Army Corps Commands, currently based at Corinth, MS:
    • Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, Commanding
    • Gen. Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, 2nd in Command
    • Maj. Gen. Leonidas Polk, I Corps
    • Maj. Gen. Braxton Bragg, II Corps
    • Maj. Gen. William Joseph Hardee, III Corps
    • Maj. Gen. George Bibb Crittenden, Reserve Corps
  • Skirmish on the Blackwater, near Warrensburg, MO.
  • Affair on 0n Edisto Island.SC.
  • Maj. Gen. John Charles Fremont, USA, supersedes Brig. Gen. William S. Rosecrans, USA, in command of the Mountain Dept., VA, as Rosecrans will be transferred to the West.
Sunday March 29 1863
  • Federal scouts from Fayetteville, AR, to Cassville, and Springfield, MO, to bring back wagon trains of weapons. (Mar 29-Apr 5)
  • Skirmish at Jacksonville, FL.
  • Affair at Moscow, TN, as 12 Rebels capture the passenger train which held about 30 Union soldiers. Maj. Gen. Stephen A. Hurlbut, USA, is furious and refuses to receive these 30 soldiers if they are exchanged.
  • Affair 5 miles from Dumfries, VA, on the Telegraph road.
  • Skirmish at Kelly's Ford, VA.
  • Skirmish at Williamsburg, VA, with the Confederates failing in their surprise attack to capture Fort Magruder. The Federals are enraged at the help given the Rebels by the local citizens.
  • Maj. Gen. Carl Schurz, USA, assumes the command of the 11th US Army Corps, VA.
Tuesday March 29 1864
  • Affair at Caperton's Ferry, AL, as a party of Federals assisting a refugee in crossing the Tennessee River was attacked by a band of mounted Confederates. The Federals are shot and wounded as they refuse to surrender and attempt to flee in the skiff they were using.
  • Skirmish at Arkadelphia, AR, the Camden (AR) Campaign.
  • Federal scouts from Bellefonte, AR. (Mar 29-Apr /1)
  • Skirmish at Long View, AR, the Camden (AR) Campaign.
  • Skirmish at Roseville, AR, 45 miles from Fort Smith, AR.
  • Federal scout from Lookout Valley to Deer Head Cove, GA. (Mar 29-31)
  • Skirmishes about Monett's Ferry and Cloutierville, LA, on the Red River. (Mar 29-30)
  • Skirmish near Bolivar, TN, with Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest's, CSA, Cavalry.
Wednesday March 29 1865
  • Thomas Maley Harris, USA, is appointed Brig. Gen.
  • Maj. Gen. Frederick Steele's US column reaches Weatherford, AL, the Mobile, AL, Campaign.
  • Skirmish as Blackwater River, KY.
  • Col. William H. Dickey, 84th US Colored Troops, assumes the command of the US Forces at Morganza, LA.
  • Skirmish in Southwest Missouri.
  • Federal scout from Waynesville, MO, to Rolla, camping at Jackson's Mills, and Coppage's Mill, on Spring Creek, to the Big Piney, with one reported bushwacker shot to death today. (Mar 29-Apr 2)
  • Skirmish near Moseley Hall, NC, with Maj. Gen. Stoneman, USA.
  • Skirmish at Wilkesborough,NC, with Maj. Gen. George Stoneman's, USA, Cavalry.
  • The Appomattox (Virginia) Campaign, as Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, after conferring with the President, begins the final assault on the Confederate lines at Petersburg, VA. (Mar 29- Apr 9)
  • Engagement at Lewis Farm near Gravelly Run, VA, as Gen. Robert E. Lee, CSA, sends Maj. Gens. Fitzhugh Lee and George Pickett, CSA, to repel the Federal attack, the Richmond, VA, Campaign.
  • Skirmish at the junction of the Quaker and Boydton Roads, VA, as Maj. Gens. George Pickett and Fitzhugh Lee, CSA, fend off Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's, USA, steady advance, the Richmond, VA, Campaign.
  • Skirmish on the Vaughan Road, near Hatcher's Run, VA, the Richmond, VA, Campaign.
  • Federal scout from Stephenson's Depot, VA, the Shenandoah Valley, to Smithfield, WV.

On This Day information kindly provided by Martin Cross, 2nd U.S. Artillery, Bty B.