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Eric | May 22, 2011
Wednesday, May 22, 1861 Throughout the beginning of the conflict, several claims of the first casualties had been expressed. There were the first Civil War death at Castle Pinckney, the murder of a Southern sympathizer in Ohio, the death in the Baltimore and St. Louis Riots and the deaths during the surrender of Fort Sumter. [...]
Eric | May 21, 2011
Tuesday, May 21, 1861 Missouri General Sterling Price, commander of the pro-secessionist Missouri State Guard, sought an interview with Union General William Harney, commander of the Department of the West. Price had been appointed his position by Governor Jackson, who wasn’t so shy about his secessionist leanings. Harney agreed to the meeting. Price had called [...]
Eric | May 20, 2011
Monday, May 20, 1861 It had been five months exactly since North Carolina’s Southern sister had seceded from the Union. In those five months, though state militia units had captured some United States arsenals and forts, the public had voted on February 28th, desiring to remain in the Union. But after Lincoln’s call for 75,000 [...]
Eric | May 19, 2011
Sunday, May 19, 1861 The USS Monticello and USS Thomas Freeborn, two United States Navy steamers, were both blockading the mouths of the James and Elizabeth Rivers, near Norfolk, Virginia. The captain of the Monticello was ordered to keep an eye on the Rebels at Sewell’s Point. A Rebel battery was being constructed and though [...]
Eric | May 18, 2011
Saturday, May 18, 1861 Colonel Frank Blair, Jr. had been given what he wanted: a dispatch from Washington relieving General Harney, commander of the Department of the West, from command (again). A condition of the order was that Blair was to use it at his discretion, but since the whole thing was his idea, that [...]
Eric | May 17, 2011
Friday, May 17, 1861 Union General George McClellan, commander of the Department of the Ohio, was worried about western Virginia, which, as McClellan learned from the newspapers, had just recently fallen under his command. “The Union men,” wrote McClellan to Washington, “lack courage.” He also had information about Harpers Ferry that he thought might be [...]
Eric | May 16, 2011
Thursday, May 16, 1861 At General Robert E. Lee’s request, Col. George A. Porterfield arrived at the B&O Railroad hub of Grafton, western Virginia on the 14th to the cold reception of the town’s Unionists and the silence from the officers who were to meet him at the depot. Porterfield found the few Rebel troops [...]
Eric | May 15, 2011
Wednesday, May 15, 1861 General Benjamin Butler, after having captured Baltimore without orders to do so, occupied Federal Hill without telling his superiors and pointed cannons at the business district, was tired. He had not slept for over 40 hours and turned in early the previous evening.1 Throughout the night, he was awoken by the [...]
Eric | May 14, 2011
Tuesday, May 14, 1861 General Benjamin Butler had occupied Baltimore without order to do so, and without telling Washington he was doing it. During the night, Secessionists had moved arms from the city, hiding them in the suburbs. On the morning of this date, “desiring for it to be understood by the inhabitants of Baltimore” [...]
Eric | May 13, 2011
Monday, May 13, 1861 Union General Benjamin Butler wasn’t ordered to march into Baltimore and occupy Federal Hill. However, he also wasn’t explicitly ordered not to. When he and his men occupied Relay Station just south of the city, he became more than a little wary of the Secessionist happenings within its limits. After sending [...]
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