ACWS - On This Day in the American Civil War 29th May

Union Secretary of War, Simeon Cameron, accepts Miss Dorothea Dix's offer to establish Federal Military hospitals.

Skirmish at Whitesburg, AL.
Skirmish at the Kickapoo Bottom, near Sylamore, and west of Searcy, AR.
Skirmish near Booneville, MS.
Skirmishes in front of Corinth, MS.
Skirmish at Pocotaligo, SC.
The Richmond and Fredericksburg Railroad Bridge, on the South Anna River, VA, is destroyed.
Skirmish near Seven Pines, on the Chickahominy River, VA.
Skirmish near Wardensville, WV.

Skirmish near Mill Spring, KY.
President Lincoln refuses to accept Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside's resignation, after Lincoln rescinds Burnside's imprisonment of Ohio Congressman, Clement Vallandigham, who was turned over to Confederate officials in Tennessee, on May 26, for attacking President Lincoln's administration regarding the ongoing American Civil War.

Action at Moulton, AL.
The Confederate capture of a Union refugee wagon train at Salem, AR, that left from Jacksonport, AR. 80 men and some women are reported killed.
Skirmish on Bayou Fordoche Road, 5 miles from Morganza, LA.
Skirmish at Yazoo River, MS.
Confederate guerrilla depredations at Winchester, TN, as they move into town and rob the place and citizens of $10,000.
Skirmish at Middleburg, VA.
Skirmishes at Newtown, VA, as the Federals lose another wagon train to the Rebels, this time 16 wagons. (May 29-30)
Maj. Gen. Jubal A. Early, CSA, is assigned to the command of the Confederate 2nd Army Corps, the Army of Northern Virginia.
Skirmish at Hamlin, WV.

The Territory in the Trans-Mississippi, south of the Arkansas River, is designated the Military Division of the Southwest, by Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, USA.
The Army of the Tennessee and the Army of Georgia (except the troops belonging to the East) are ordered to Louisville, KY.
The District of East Louisiana is formed, to consist of the Districts of Baton Rouge and Port Hudson and the Post of Clinton, and Brig. Gen. Michael K. Lawler, USA, is assigned to its command.
Federal operations against guerrillas in Johnson County, MO.
Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, USA, assumes the command of the Military Division of the Southwest.
Bvt. Maj. Gen. John E. Smith, USA, assumes the command of the District of West Tennessee.
Federal operations under Maj. Gen. Philip Henry Sheridan. USA, in Texas and on the Rio Grande River. TX. as Sheridan begins a mopping up campaign after the surrender of Lieut. Gen. E. Kirby Smith, CSA, overseeing the renamed Military Division of the Southwest, relocating troops and chasing Indians. (May 29-Nov 14,1866)
In an act of reconciliation, President Andrew Johnson grants amnesty and pardons to all those who participated in the rebellion.

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