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Eric | July 31, 2011
Wednesday, July 31, 1861 Ever since Missouri’s pro-secessionist governor, Claiborne Fox Jackson, was run from the capital, Jefferson City, by Union forces, the state had operated under no formal government. Order was kept on the county level but, on the state level, nothing of any lasting importance could be accomplished. The paltry force of Missouri [...]
Eric | July 30, 2011
Tuesday, July 30, 1861 Benjamin Butler had a problem. Being commander of Fortress Monroe on the Virginia Peninsula was no easy job. Though there had been no major fighting since the Battle of Big Bethel, Confederates in General John Bankhead Magruder’s Army of the Peninsula threatened his positions at Newport News, Hampton and along the [...]
Eric | July 29, 2011
Monday, July 29. 1861 Gauley Bridge, in western Virginia, was a small town, consisting of two or three houses, a general store, a tavern and a church. The bridge, from which the town took its name, was an 1850 wooden covered bridge along the James River and Kanawha Turnpike. The town sat at the confluence [...]
Eric | July 28, 2011
Sunday, July 28, 1861 General Robert E. Lee had been organizing the Confederate military and acting as an advisor to President Davis. With superiority shown on the fields of Manassas and the situation in Missouri seeming both contained and distant, Lee left Richmond for western Virginia. Two small Confederate armies operated in the area. The [...]
Eric | July 27, 2011
Saturday, July 27, 1861 Major Isaac Lynde feared that Fort Fillmore would be attacked at dawn. So, before the first rays of light glimmered over the San Andres Mountains near Mesilla, New Mexico, he gathered the 500 Union soldiers in his command. Through the night, they had destroyed whatever buildings and supplies that might prove [...]
Eric | July 26, 2011
Friday, July 26, 1861 Still fearing an attack, Major Isaac Lynde ordered Fort Fillmore to be prepared for defense. Confederates under Lt. Col. John Baylor had marched from El Paso, Texas to Mesilla, New Mexico to clear out the Union troops occupying the forts within the newly established (though still unofficial) Confederate Territory of Arizona. [...]
Eric | July 25, 2011
Thursday, July 25, 1861 The summer sun rose over Mesilla, New Mexico, along the Rio Grande, as Lt. Col. John Baylor learned he and his Confederates had been betrayed. He left Fort Bliss, Texas with 258 men, but after two had deserted to warn the Yankees at nearby Fort Fillmore of his plan, Baylor had [...]
Eric | July 24, 2011
Wednesday, July 24, 1861 Fort Fillmore, near Mesilla, New Mexico Territory was one of a string of forts that were built primarily to protect settlers as they moved west from Texas. Major Isaac Lynde of the United States Infantry commanded the 500 troops consolidated at the fort. After Texas seceded from the Union, all forts [...]
Eric | July 23, 2011
Tuesday, July 23, 1861 Colonel William Tecumseh Sherman found himself riding in the Presidential carriage alongside President Lincoln and Secretary of State Seward. He took notice of the carriage as it crossed the Potomac on the ferry near Georgetown. Lincoln had heard that the “big scare” was over and wanted to see the troops. Sherman, [...]
Eric | July 22, 2011
Monday, July 22, 1861 Through the deluge of rain, Confederate soldiers buried the Manassas dead on the battlefield where they had fallen. In the Confederate camps, a sense of normalcy quickly took over. They had been victorious, but, as General Johnston would later say, the Confederate army was “more disorganized by victory than that of [...]
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