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Eric | June 21, 2011
Friday, June 21, 1861 Union General-in-Chief Winfield Scott already had a plan of operation in mind when he asked Generals McDowell and Patterson to submit their ideas to him. He wanted the Rebels swept from Leesburg and a coordinated assault between the two Generals. After a night of contemplation, General Patterson, with troops near Hagerstown [...]
Eric | June 20, 2011
Thursday, June 20, 1861 Colonel Thomas J. Jackson gave his men a scant few hours of sleep on the road to Martinsburg, Virginia. He had been ordered by General Joe Johnston to destroy the large B&O Railroad shops so they might not fall into Union hands. Confederate Cavalry, 300 strong, under Jeb Stuart were already [...]
Eric | June 19, 2011
Wednesday, June 19, 1861 Through the pre-dawn haze, two companies of Rebel troops from Tennessee peered out from the hills surrounding the small Piedmont town of New Creek [now called Keyser], along a bend in the Potomac River, 20 miles west of Cumberland. A small B&O Railroad depot was guarded by a 200 – 300 [...]
Eric | June 18, 2011
Tuesday, June 18, 1861 As dawn rose behind him, Union General Patterson in Hagerstown, Maryland was filled with apprehension and questions. The night before, it was reported to him that 15,000 Confederates under General Johnston were marching from Martinsburg to attack him at Williamsport, a distance of only 15 miles. If true, General-in-Chief Winfield Scott’s [...]
Eric | June 17, 2011
Monday, June 17, 1861 Missouri’s capital had fallen to the Union. Governor Jackson and General Price, pro-secessionists both, had fled with the state government and the Missouri State Guard, to Boonville, 40 miles up the Missouri River. When Union General Lyon discovered their new base, he and his 1,700 men steamed towards them. The camp [...]
Eric | June 16, 2011
Sunday, June 16, 1861 Troop movements in the face of an enemy can be just as confusing for the pursuer as they are for the pursued. As Confederate General Johnston’s men evacuated Harpers Ferry, making Bunker Hill , Virginia their new home, Union forces under General Patterson nuzzled into their positions around Hagerstown and Williamsport, [...]
Eric | June 15, 2011
Saturday, June 15, 1861 As Harpers Ferry still smoldered from the Rebel evacuation of the day before, Union General Patterson set into motion his advance from southern Pennsylvania into Maryland. The march was lead by General Cadwalader, who was ordered to attack Maryland Heights opposite Harpers Ferry. There, Patterson believed, the Rebels would make their [...]
Eric | June 14, 2011
Friday, June 14, 1861 As soon as Confederate General Johnston got the word that he could use his discretion on whether or not to evacuate Harpers Ferry, he ordered Colonel Thomas Jackson to ready his brigade to move to Winchester. Everything movable in the town that could be used for the army was to be [...]
Eric | June 13, 2011
Thursday, June 13, 1861 Hearing that several hundred Rebel troops were drilling and “oppressing loyal citizens” in Romney, Virginia [now West Virginia], Union Colonel Lew Wallace and his 11th Indiana Zouaves, about 500 strong, took a train from Cumberland, Maryland to New Creek Station, 21 miles south. They began the 23 mile march east over [...]
Eric | June 12, 2011
Wednesday, June 12, 1861 Missouri Governor Claiborne Jackson had unceremoniously left St. Louis with secessionist General Sterling Price. Their meeting with Union General Nathaniel Lyon didn’t go so well. It ended with Lyon exclaiming “this means war!” and leaving abruptly. Jackson and Price arrived back in the capital, Jefferson City, at 2am. The news of [...]
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