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January 3

1861 - Dover - The nominally slave state of Delaware voted not to secede from the United States; while some citizens joined the southern cause, no Confederate units or militia arose from the state

1862 - Cockpit Point - Though shelled heavily by USS Anacostia and USS Yankee, this fortified Potomac River bluff, commanded by Confederate Samuel G. French, maintained its river blockade with neither side gaining an advantage

1863 - Murphreesboro - Reinforced by men and material, Union Army commander William Rosecrans ordered an attack on Confederate sharpshooter positions, capturing almost 100

January 5

1862 - Hancock - After marching his brigade almost forty miles in bitter cold, Confederate commander Stonewall Jackson scattered Union pickets, then commenced bombardment of this garrisoned town in Washington County, Maryland

January 6

1862 - Hancock - Pinning the Frederick Lander's Union garrison with bombardment, the Stonewall Brigade probed for a useful Potomac River crossing in Morgan County, West Virginia

January 8

1821 - Edgefield - The Longstreet family have their third son; they name him James after his father, but would nickname him "Pete"

1863 - Springfield - Federal commander Egbert B. Brown removed some supplies to hidden Greene County, Missouri depots, concentrated his defenders in four earthen works surrounding this county seat's public square, and his men withstood repeated assaults until sundown against superior Confederate columns under John Marmaduke

1865 - Dove Creek - Texan soldiers under Confederate captains Henry Fossett and S.S. Totten, misunderstanding which tribe occupied a discovered camp near what is now Knickerbocker, Texas, attacked a tribe of peaceful Kickapoo Indians and were badly beaten by organized defense

January 9

1861 - Morris Island - The civilian resupply ship Star of the West was fired upon by cadets from The Citadel as the ship entered Charleston Harbor; this prevented the Star of the West from resupplying Major Robert Anderson's garrison at Fort Sumter

1863 - Fort Hindman - After communicating his intention to President Lincoln, but not to commanders Grant or Halleck, political general John Alexander McClernand landed ground troops under Sherman at Arkansas Post, overrunning Confederate trenches