1863 Jan Am Civil War Gazette

Highlights of the January 1863 Edition:
- The Emancipation Proclamation is published and takes effect
- Published as General Orders No. 1 on Jan. 25
- "Let Saturday, Jan. 17, be long remembered as the day when the people of New-Orleans came together and acted officially upon the Emancipation Proclamation of the President"

- Grant's Vicksburg Campaign
- Sherman begins digging Grant's Canal (a.k.a. Butler's Ditch)
- Battle of Fort Hindman/Arkansas Post
- Read-Admiral Porter's Official Report

- Stone's River Campaign concludes
- Battle of Stones River/Second Battle of Murfreesboro

- Galveston, Texas Operations conclude
- Second Battle of Galveston
- The USRC Harriet Lane is captured by Confederate forces
- Lt. Lea (USA) commands the repelling force and is mortally wounded
- Maj. Albert Lea (CSA) boards the Harriet Lane and finds his son dying
- Naval Battle of Galveston Light

- Marmaduke's Expedition into Missouri
- Second Battle of Springfield
- Battle of Hartville

- Shoshone War in the Washington Territory
- Bear River Massacre

- Virginian Operations
- Battle of Deserted House/Battle on the Blackwater

- Army of the Potomac (USA)
- Burnside's Mud March
- Hooker replaces Burnside
- Burnside "resigns"

- Gen. Pope publishes an exposé of his Virginia campaign
- Numerous documents are published including official correspondence and telegrams

- Control of the Railroads
- Raid on the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad

- Reports of the USS Monitor, while under tow by the USS Rhode Island, which foundered and sank off the coast of Cape Hatteras at the end of Dec. 1862

- A national hospital for disabled veterans is established by the Senate Committee on Military Affairs

- Gov. Robinson of Kentucky recommends that the Kentucky Legislature reject the Emancipation Proclamation

- The court-martial of Gen. Fitz-John Porter (USA) concludes
- Initial reports acquit him of all charges
- Found guilty of disobedience and misconduct
- Dismissed from the Army
- Will spend the rest of his life fighting against the court-martial
- 1878: A special commission exonerates Porter
- 1886: President Chester A. Arthur commutes Porter's sentence
- 1886: A special act of Congress restores Porter's commission

- The Court of Inquiry of Gen. McDowell (USA) continues
- Lincoln's oft discussed (to this day) letter to Gen. McClellan is published
- "I think this is the precise time for you to strike a blow," -- A. Lincoln
- "it is indispensable to me that you strike a blow," -- A. Lincoln
- "you must act," -- A. Lincoln
- "His advice was not followed; his commands, as Commander-in-Chief, were disobeyed." -- New York Times

- Lincoln and Halleck revoke Grant's controversial Order No. 11 expelling "Jews, as a class" from his command

- Congress
- The admission of Utah is considered, with the condition that polygamy is prohibited
- Consideration of the creation of the territory of Shoshona from what is today Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota
- Proposal to create a volunteer force "to be called the National Guard of the United States"

- Thurlow Weed retires from the Albany Evening Journal

- The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin is siezed by the Provost Marshall for "articles abusing the Government, and bitterly denouncing the Administration"