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Eric | April 30, 2011
Tuesday, April 30, 1861 When Colonel Thomas Jackson first met the soldiers under his command at Harpers Ferry, more than one soldier thought that “the Old Dominion must be woefully deficient in military men… if this was the best she could do.” Jackson, who was dressed in his professor’s uniform from the Virginia Military Institute, [...]
Eric | April 29, 2011
Monday, April 29, 1861 Confederate President Jefferson Davis addressed his Congress in Montgomery, Alabama. Historically, this would be remembered as his “all we ask is to be let alone” speech. He began by announcing that the Confederate Constitution had been ratified by all of the Confederate States. There was no doubt in his mind that [...]
Eric | April 28, 2011
Sunday, April 28, 1861 Missouri was a mess. It, like the other border states, was split on the question of secession. Though the state’s Secession Convention, held in March, rejected the idea 98-1, when Fort Sumter was fired upon (and probably before that), Governor Claiborne Jackson began to think up ways to remove his state [...]
Eric | April 27, 2011
Saturday, April 27, 1861 After Lincoln considered shutting down the Maryland legislature, he got word that the railroads between Washington and Philadelphia were under threat of attack by Rebels in Maryland. With this in mind, he wrote to General Scott. The President had already promised not to send troops through Baltimore, opting to bring troops [...]
Eric | April 26, 2011
Friday, April 26, 1861 A few hours after Joseph Johnston arrived in Richmond, he was given the position of Major-General in the Virginia Militia. Johnston had resigned from the United States Army, where he held the rank of Brigadier-General, on the 22nd. Governor Letcher assigned him the task of organizing the state volunteers. It was [...]
Eric | April 25, 2011
Thursday, April 25, 1861 With the dawn, the militiamen of the Seventh New York and Eighth Massachusetts picked their way along the ripped up tracks of the Annapolis and Elk Ridge Railroad, finally arriving at the depot in Annapolis Junction. This small settlement was on the Baltimore & Ohio spur to Washington from Baltimore. The [...]
Eric | April 24, 2011
Wednesday, April 24, 1861 Abraham Lincoln visited with the Sixth Massachusetts, the veterans of the Baltimore Riots. Washington had been virtually cut off for days. No news about any of the hoped-for Northern militia units had reached the city. “I don’t believe there is any North,” said Lincoln to the boys of the Sixth. Of [...]
Eric | April 23, 2011
Tuesday, April 23, 1861 Abraham Lincoln was nervous. He had a right to be. The capital of the United States may well be surrounded by Rebels. There was no real way to tell. Communication with the rest of the North was sporadic at best. Except for the Sixth Massachusetts, bloodied in the streets of Baltimore, [...]
Eric | April 22, 2011
Monday, April 22, 1861 General Winfield Scott thought it was probable that Washington DC was about to be under siege by Rebels. There wasn’t much to go on but rumors; however, of these rumors, he found three plausible. The first was that 1,500 to 2,000 Rebel troops were constructing a battery four miles south of [...]
Eric | April 21, 2011
Sunday, April 21, 1861 The rumor that Federal militia troops would again march through Baltimore, was once more the talk of the town. 3,400 Federal militiamen had just arrived in Cockeysville (17 miles north of Baltimore) via rail from Philadelphia. They were given ammunition and were now waiting for a couple of Regular US Army [...]
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