November 29, 1862 Saturday
Maj Gen John B. Magruder (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Magruder ), CSA, assumed command of the District of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. There were skirmishes at Lumpkin’s Mill and Waterford, Mississippi; and at Stewart’s Ferry and Baird’s Mills, Tennessee near Stone’s River. U.S.S. Mount Vernon, commanded by Acting Lieutenant Trathen, captured blockade runner Levi Rowe off New Inlet, North Carolina, with cargo of rice.
In late November Captain H. A. Adams was ordered to special duty at Philadelphia as coordinator of coal supply. All coal used in the U.S. Navy at that time was anthracite and came from the eastern district of Pennsylvania, being forwarded to Philadelphia either by rail or barge down the Schuylkill River. There it was loaded into coal schooners and sent to the various blockading squadrons. Before Captain Adams was ordered to this duty, squadron commanders had considerable difficulty in keeping their ships supplied with coal and often had to borrow from the Army. To illustrate the amount of coal required by the squadrons, Rear Admiral Du Pont notified the Navy Department in mid-December that the consumption of coal in his South Atlantic Blockading Squadron alone was approximately 950 tons a week.
The following appointments were made to Major General: Hiram Gregory Berry, USA; Francis Preston Blair, Jr., USA; James Gillpatrick Blunt, USA; Daniel Butterfield, USA; Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh Dana, USA; William Henry French, USA; Winfield Scott Hancock, USA; Francis Jay Herron, USA; John Alexander Logan, USA; George Gordon Meade, USA; Robert Huston Milroy, USA; Richard James Oglesby, USA; John McCauley Palmer, USA; Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss, USA; John Fulton Reynolds, USA; Joseph Jones Reynolds, USA; John McAllister Schofield, USA; Daniel Edgar Sickles, USA; David Sloane Stanley, USA; Frederick Steele, USA; George Stoneman, USA; George Sykes, USA; and Cadwallader Colden Washburn, USA.
The following appointments were made to Brigadier General: James Barnes, USA; John Beatty, USA; Samuel Beatty, USA; Egbert Benson Brown, USA; Robert Christie Buchanan, USA; Ralph Pomeroy Buckland, USA; Charles Thomas Campbell, USA; Stephen Gardner Champlin, USA; Joseph Tarr Copeland, USA; Marcellus Monroe Crocker, USA; Lysander Cutler, USA; George Washington Deitzler, USA; Elias Smith Dennis, USA; Charles Cleveland Dodge, USA; William Dwight, USA; Hugh Boyle Ewing, USA; Theophilus Toulmin Garrard, USA; Charles Kinnaird Graham, USA; David McMurtrie Gregg, USA; James Allen Hardie, USA; Edward Harland, USA; William Harrow, USA; Isham Nicholas Haynie, USA; Alexander Hays, USA; Charles Adam Heckman, USA; Edward Winslow Hincks, USA; Edward Henry Hobson, USA; Lewis Cass Hunt, USA; John Haskell King, USA; Edward Needles Kirk, USA; Joseph Farmer Knipe, USA; Vladimir Kryzanowski, USA; Michael Kelly Lawler, USA; Albert Lindley Lee, USA; Mortimer Dormer Leggett, USA; William Haines Lytle, USA; George Francis McGinnis, USA; Nathaniel Collins McLean, USA; James Winning McMillan, USA; John McNeil, USA; Gilman Marston, USA; John Sanford Mason, USA; Charles Leopold Matthies, USA; Sullivan Amory Meredith, USA; William Hopkins Morris, USA; James St. Clair Morton, USA; Thomas Hewson Neill, USA; Franklin Stillman Nickerson, USA; William Ward Orme, USA; Joshua Thomas Owen, USA; Thomas Gamble Pitcher, USA; Orlando Metcalfe Poe, USA; Edward Elmer Potter, USA; Thomas Edward Greenfield Ransom, USA; Thomas Algeo Rowley, USA; Thomas Howard Ruger, USA; David Allen Russell, USA; Adam Jacoby Slemmer, USA; John Eugene Smith, USA; John Dunlap Stevenson, USA; George Crockett Strong, USA; David Stuart, USA; Frederick Shearer Stumbaugh, USA; Thomas William Sweeney, USA; Davis Tillson, USA; Alfred Thomas Archimeded Torbert, USA; Robert Ogden Tyler, USA; William Vandever, USA; Israel Vogdes, USA; George Day Wagner, USA; Joseph Dana Webster, USA; Thomas Welch, USA; Frank Wheaton, USA; David Henry Williams, USA; Nelson Grosvenor Williams, USA; Isaac Jones Wistar, USA; and Samuel Kosciuszko Zook, USA.