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Historical Events in November 1862

  • Nov 3 Battle until the 5th November between gunboats at Bayou Teche, a waterway in Louisiana
  • Nov 4 Dr Richard Gatling patents Gatling machine gun in Indianapolis

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Nov 5 Ambrose Burnside replaces McClellen as head of Army of Potomac

Union General, Politician and Industrialist Ambrose Burnside
Union General, Politician and Industrialist
Ambrose Burnside
  • Nov 5 Battle at Barbee's Crossroads, Virginia: 51 casualties
  • Nov 6 New York-San Francisco direct telegraphic link forms

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Nov 9 US General Ulysses S. Grant issues orders to bar Jews from serving under him

Union General and US President Ulysses S. Grant
Union General and US President
Ulysses S. Grant
  • Nov 17 Confederate Secretary of War George B Randolph resigns
  • Nov 17 Union General Ambrose Burnside marches north out of Washington, D.C., to begin the Fredericksburg campaign
  • Nov 20 Confederate armies of Mississippi and Kentucky merge as Army of Tennessee, under General Braxton Bragg

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Nov 22 Opera "La Forza del Destino" by Giuseppe Verdi debuts at Bolshoi Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia [Nov 10 O.S.]

Composer Giuseppe Verdi
Composer
Giuseppe Verdi
  • Nov 24 M Levy publishes Gustave Flaubert's "Salammbo"
  • Nov 28 Battle at Cane Hill, Arkansas (475 casualties)
  • Nov 28 Battle of Hooly Spring, MS

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