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Thursday, January 8, 1863

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Army Events:

			Expedition to:	Arkansas Post, AR	January 4 - 17, 1863
			Expedition from:	Beaufort, SC	January 3 - February 1, 1863
			Scout:	Berryville, AR	January 8 - 10, 1863
			Reconnaissance to:	Blackwater River, VA	January 8 - 10, 1863
			Reconnaissance to:	Catlett's Station, VA	January 8 - 10, 1863
			Campn:	Central Mississippi	October 31, 1862 - January 10, 1863
			Operation:	Eastern Shore, VA	August 20 - June 3, 1863
			Operation:	Gloucester Peninsula, VA	August 20, 1862 - June 4, 1863
			Campaign:	Grant's Central MS	October 31, 1862 - January 10, 1863
			Operation:	Harper's Ferry, WV	November 15, 1862 - January 25, 1863
			Skirmish:	Knob Creek, TN	January 8, 1863
			Operation:	Marmaduke's Expedition	December 31, 1862 - January 25, 1863
			Operation:	Mississippi Central Railroad, MS	October 31, 1862 - January 10, 1863
			Scout:	Ozark, AR	January 4 - 11, 1863
			Reconnaissance to:	Rappahannock Station, VA	January 8 - 10, 1863
			Skirmish:	Ripley, TN	January 8, 1863
			Engagement:	Springfield, MO	January 8, 1863
			Expedition from:	Suffolk, VA	January 8 - 10, 1863
			Expedition to:	West Point, VA	January 7 - 9, 1863
			Raid:	Wheeler's Raid, in North Georgia and East Tennessee	January 8 - 14, 1863
			Expedition to:	White House, VA	January 7 - 9, 1863
			Expedition from:	Yorktown, VA	January 7 - 9, 1863

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Appointment:

Brigadier General James Cantey, CSA, to Brigadier General

(Source: Compendium of the War of the Rebellion Vol. I, p. 660-991. Frederick H. Dyer; The Chronological Tracking Of The American Civil War Per The Offical Records Of The War of the Rebellion pp. 1-336. Ronald A. Mosocco.)

Naval Events:

Joint Army-Navy expedition up the Pamunkey River destroyed boats, barges and stores at West Point and White House, Virginia. U.S.S. Mahaska and Commodore Morris, under Commander Foxhall A. Parker, supported the Army movement and convoyed transport May Queen. Rear Admiral Samuel P. Lee reported: "A more extensive enterprise was projected, but want of water at the obstructions prevented its full success; as a reconnaissance it is valuable." Major General Erasmus D. Keyes, felt that "the success of the land part of the expedition was largely indebted to Captain Parker's admirable management of his vessels. On this and many other occasions I have noticed the zeal and good judgment of that naval officer."

General Grant wired Commander Pennock in Cairo: "Can I have gunboats at Memphis to convoy reinforcements to Vicksburg? I will want them by the eleventh." The fleet captain, facing problems that had beset the gunboats since the squadron's inception, replied: "Will send one light-draft gunboat, bullet-proof, one-fourth manned. I can do no more. Can't you place under the command of her captain soldiers enough to work her guns?" The next day, 9 January, Grant and Pennock again exchanged telegrams relative to the Army's need for gunboats. "There is no gunboat in Tennessee River above Fort Henry," the General wired Cairo. "There is 10 feet water and rising." Pennock reported: "Two [gunboats] have orders to ascend Tennessee with rise."

U.S.S. Sagamore, commanded by Lieutenant Commander English, seized blockade running British sloop Julia off Jupiter Inlet with cargo of salt.

U.S.S. Tahoma, commanded by Lieutenant Commander Alexander A. Semmes, captured blockade runner Silas Henry, aground in Tampa Bay with cargo of cotton.

(Source: Civil War Naval Chronology 1861-1865. pp. I:1-41; II:1-117; III:1-170; IV:1-152; V:1-134. 1971: Naval History Division, Navy Department.)

Additional Information:

The Battle of Springfield, Missouri. (MO018) (Marmaduke's First Expedition into Missouri [January 1863]).

John P. Usher succeeds Caleb B. Smith as U. S. Secretary of the Interior.

Major General John A. McClernand, USA, concludes his unauthorized transfer of the Federal Army of the Mississippi from Milliken's Bend, Louisiana, to the mouth of ther White River, Arkansas. The transfer took five days.

(Source: Civil War Sites Advisory Commission Report: Battle Summaries. National Park Service. In The Civil War Battlefield Guide, 2nd ed., 1998. Edited by Frances H. Kennedy; A Concise Encyclopedia of the Civil War, p. 203-221. Henry E. Simmons 1965.)