1863 Sept Am Civil War Gazette

The Extra!!! Edition of the American Civil War Gazette contains back issues as well as additional articles that did not appear in the daily edition.

"The most important battle of the war, after that of the first Manassas, has just been fought and won by the Confederate arms."
-- Richmond Dispatch, Sept. 29, 1863

Highlights of the September 1863 Edition:

- Second Bayou Teche Campaign
- Second Battle of Sabine Pass

- Chickamauga Campaign concludes
- Skirmish at Davis's Cross Roads/Dug Gap
- Battle of Chickamauga
- Approximately 34,000 Americans fell
- Most causalties in the west, and second most casualties of the war (first was Gettysburg)

- Sioux/Dakota War
- Battle of Whitestone Hill

- Indian Territory (Oklahoma)
- Battle of Devil's Backbone

- Charleston, South Carolina
- Siege of Charleston Harbor concludes
- Second Battle of Fort Sumter

- Second Bayou Teche Campaign. Taylor's Operations in West Louisiana conclude
- Battle of Stirling's Plantation

- Longstreet's Knoxville Campaign begins
- Frazer surrenders the Cumberland Gap to Burnside without causalties on either side
- Battle of Blountville

- Little Rock Campaign continues
- Battle of Bayou Fourche

- Alexandria is selected as the Union Capital of Virginia

- Gen. Burnside (USA) resigns after taking the Cumberland Gap
- Lincoln refuses to accept resignation

- Lincoln suspends Habeas Corpus on Sept. 15 throughout the Union in cases of prisoners of war, spies, traitors, or members of the military
- Loosely defined, habeas corpus is the legal doctrine that allows a court to determine whether a prisoner is being lawfully held
- Without habeas corpus, a prisoner can be held indefinitely at the will of the jailor
- Habeas corpus has been suspended in the United States during four periods of American history (Civil War & Reconstruction, Philippine-American War, World War II, Post 9/11/2001)

- Gen. Walker (CSA) is killed in a duel with Gen. Marmaduke (CSA)

- The First Anniversary of the Battle of Antietam is commemorated in the Army of the Potomac

- Death of Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm in Berlin (Brothers Grimm; Grimm's Fairy Tales)