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

February 28.—General R. E. Lee, commanding the rebel army in Virginia, issued an order reviewing its operations for the year 1862.—(Doc. 126.)

—The armed rebel steamer Nashville, while aground under the guns of Fort McAllister, on the Great Ogeechee River, Ga., was this day destroyed by the United States gunboat Montauk, under the command of Captain J. L. Worden.— (Doc. 127.)

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