Compiled by Jim Hachtel, President
Gen. William T. Sherman Memorial Civil War Roundtable
September 30, 1862 - Braxton Bragg concentrates his army at Bardstown, Kentucky, just 30 miles from the Union forces of General Don Bell at Louisville.
September 30, 1862 - In Missouri, Confederate Colonels Douglas Cooper and Joseph Shelby, with combined forces of about 6,000 men, are defeated at Newtonia.
October 1, 1862 - The Union's Western gunboat fleet is transferred from the War Department to the Navy.
October 1, 1862 - Confederate General J. E. B. Stuart conducts his first cavalry raid into Pennsylvania.
October 1, 1862 - The Army of the Ohio, 50,000 strong and commanded by General Don Bell, is split into four columns. One column moves toward Frankfort, the provisional capitol of Kentucky, while the other three concentrate at Perryville. Movement is hampered by incessant heat and lack of water as a drought continues in the Midwest.
October 1, 1862 - At Vicksburg, General Earl Van Dorn is replaced by General John C. Pemberton, new commander of the Department of the Mississippi and East Louisiana.
October 1, 1862 - President Lincoln arrives at Harper's Ferry to consult with General McClellan on war strategy.
October 2, 1862 - The President has his tent set up adjacent to General McClellan's Headquarters' tent in an apparent attempt to spur the General into action.
October 2, 1862 - General Buell's movement to Frankfort is discovered by General Cleburne's scouts and Confederate headquarters is notified.
October 2, 1862 - Generals Sterling Price and Earl Van Dorn enter Chewalla, Tennessee, just north of their intended destination of Corinth, Mississippi. This is an attempt to convince Union General Rosecrans that they are marching north to aid General Bragg in Kentucky.
October 3, 1862 - Union soldiers capture a Confederate Battery at St. John's Bluff, Florida and occupy Jacksonville.
October 3, 1862 - Generals Earl Van Dorn with 22,000 Confederate soldiers and Sterling Price with 23,000 men attack at Corinth, Mississippi. Formed in a semi-circle facing south, the Confederates face three Divisions of Rosecrans' men; each supporting a line with carefully sited cannons. As the Southern force attacks, the first Union line drops back, further concentrating their force and resistance stiffens. Heat, lack of water, and fatigue cause the battle to come to a rest early in the evening.
October 4, 1862 - Confederate forces pick up the attack on Corinth at 4:00AM with success in the capture of Rosecrans' Robinson lunette (a fixed battery). Union resistance again stiffens and Van Dorn concedes defeat. Federal loss is 355 killed with 1,473 Confederates dead. Total killed, wounded, and missing is 2,520 North and 4,233 South.
October 4, 1862 - At Newtonia, Missouri, Confederate Indians commanded by Colonel Douglas Cooper retreat back to Indian Territory and Southwest Arkansas to regroup.
October 5, 1862 - British Prime Minister Lord Nelson and Foreign Secretary Lord Russell learn of the Confederate "defeat' at Antietam and President Lincoln's published Emancipation Proclamation. They withdraw plans to support the Confederacy.
October 5, 1862 - The Corinth campaign ends with General Van Dorn moving to Holly Springs, Mississippi.
October 6, 1862 - President Lincoln prods General McClellan and his Commanding Officer General Halleck to move The Army of the Potomac into Virginia and engage the Confederacy. Halleck's telegram: "The President directs that you cross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy or drive him south. Your army must move while the roads are good." McClellan does not move.
October 6, 1862 - Union General Buell and Confederate General Bragg both move near Bardstown and Harrodsburg, Kentucky, sometimes coming close enough to skirmish as they continue to move into the vicinity of Perryville, Kentucky.
