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Eric | May 31, 2011
Friday, May 31, 1861 Forty miles down the Potomac from Washington, three Union gunboats exchanged shots with the Confederate batteries near Aquia Creek. The USS Thomas Freeborn, along with the USS Anacostia had tangled with these batteries a couple of days ago, but little damage was done on either side. The two vessels were, on [...]
Eric | May 30, 2011
Thursday, May 30, 1861 With Union forces from the west drawing ever closer, Confederate Col. Porterfield had vacated the strategically essential railroad hub of Grafton, western Virginia for Philippi, fifteen miles south. Though Union Col. Kelley (from the northwest via Wheeling) and Col. Steedman (from the west via Parkersburg) had been delayed, Porterfield was taking [...]
Eric | May 29, 2011
Wednesday, May 29, 1861 As the situation stood in Virginia on this date, Union troops were invading from the west, the east and the north. The inroads (with the exception of the west) were slight, but alarm was raised. Across the Potomac from Washington, newly-appointed commander of the United States Department of Northeastern Virginia, Brigadier-General [...]
Eric | May 28, 2011
Tuesday, May 28, 1861 Confederate Col. Porterfield, in Grafton, western Virginia, had received truthful reports of large numbers of Union soldiers not 35 miles away. These were the 1,500 or so men under Col. Kelley, who had taken the train southeast from Wheeling to near Mannington. The Confederates had burned two bridges along the B&O [...]
Eric | May 27, 2011
Monday, May 27, 1861 Just after dawn, the 1st Virginia (US) under Col. Kelley marched across the suspension bridge from Ohio to Wheeling, western Virginia. Hundreds of loyal Unionist citizens rose early to see their boys off. Many of the 1st Virginia were from Wheeling, so wives and mothers hugged and kissed their dear ones [...]
Eric | May 26, 2011
Sunday, May 26, 1861 Union General George B. McClellan was busy “maturing” plans that he and General Winfield Scott had communicated about over the past week when he received a telegram that Rebels had burned two bridges on the B&O Railroad in western Virginia the previous night. From Cincinnati, he ordered the 1st Virginia (US), [...]
Eric | May 25, 2011
Saturday, May 25, 1861 The dead body of Colonel Elmer Ellsworth lay in the East Room of the White House as friends, fellow citizens and the representatives for the entire North paid their respects. The sermon was given by Reverend Dr. Smith Pyne of St. John’s Episcopal Church. President and Mrs. Lincoln arrived at noon [...]
Eric | May 24, 2011
Friday, May 24, 1861 Alexandria, Virginia, the town across the Potomac River from Washington DC, was inhabited by around 500 Rebel soldiers. For the safety of the capital, this town needed to be taken. Late the previous night, Rebel outposts had seen Federal cavalry cross the river six miles north of town and sent warning [...]
Eric | May 23, 2011
I’m not really a huge fan of asking for donations or grubbing for money. The Civil War Daily Gazette is my own project and I’m funding it myself (the costs of running it are probably less than $5 a month). However, while some of my resources are available for free online (diaries, memoirs, Official Records, [...]
Eric | May 23, 2011
Thursday, May 23, 1861 Virginia’s popular vote to approve secession was a mere matter of formality. The Confederate army had taken control of the Virginia volunteers, accepted Virginia into her fold and even resolved to move the nation’s capital to Richmond. But formality or not, the votes were cast and secession was approved by a [...]
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