Following the American Civil War Sesquicentennial with day by day writings of the time, currently 1863.

March 18.—Colonel Stokes’s Fifth Tennessee cavalry again overtook Champ Ferguson and his guerrillas on a little stream called Calfkiller River, near where it empties into Caney Fork, Tenn., and there killed eight of them.

—The behavior of the rebel brigade under General Pettigrew, at the battle of Gettysburgh, was vindicated in this day’s Richmond Enquirer.

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