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Eric | July 21, 2011
Sunday, July 21, 1861 Both Union and Confederate commanders had similar plans: attack the enemy on his left flank. Whichever army struck first would seize the initiative and throw the other on the defensive. General McDowell had the right of his Union army in motion around 2am. One division would feint an attack upon the [...]
Eric | July 20, 2011
Saturday, July 20, 1861 It was morning and the sun had hardly risen, when Confederate General Johnston arrived at Manassas after an all-night train ride from Piedmont. He stepped off the cars with two more regiments to reinforce Beauregard’s line along Bull Run, and immediately proceeded to general headquarters. The previous day, Johnston had wired [...]
Eric | July 19, 2011
Friday, July 19, 1861 General Thomas Jackson had his men up and at Piedmont Station on the Manassas Gap Railroad not long after dawn. They were the vanguard of General Johnston’s Confederate Army of the Shenandoah, en route to reinforce General Beauregard at Manassas. Union General Patterson, nearby, was to make Johnston think that he [...]
Eric | July 18, 2011
Thursday, July 18, 1861 General McDowell’s Union Army converged upon Centreville on the third day of their march towards the Confederate Army of the Potomac in a line along Bull Run near Manassas, Virginia. The Confederates covered the fords and bridges along the run, protecting the railroad hub of Manassas Junction. McDowell was aware of [...]
Eric | July 17, 2011
Living in Seattle doesn’t give me very much access to things like Civil War battlefields or history in general. Sometimes, however, I’ll luck onto something and, with a little stretching, I can dovetail it into the Civil War. This past weekend, Sarah and I went to see a Vintage Base Ball game at Fort Vancouver, [...]
Eric | July 17, 2011
Wednesday, July 17, 1861 Not too long after the last Union troops filtered into their camps, the bugles sounded, calling them to fall into line. General McDowell’s marching orders for the previous day had been light, but today he expected to engage the Rebels at Fairfax Court House, fifteen miles from General Beauregard’s Confederate Army [...]
Eric | July 16, 2011
Tuesday, July 16, 1861 The Revenge of William Tilghman of the S.J. Waring Rebel privateers in the brig Jeff Davis had captured the S.J. Waring on July 7. For the past week, they had been sailing for a Southern port. Four of the Waring‘s original crew, still on board, were put to work on the [...]
Eric | July 15, 2011
Monday, July 15, 1861 The Union regiments that had gathered in and around Washington in preparation for the advance upon Richmond were still being supplied and ushered across the Potomac River to be placed in their brigades. General McDowell, their commander, called another meeting of his highest ranking officers to discuss the movements that would [...]
Eric | July 14, 2011
Sunday, July 14, 1861 “The Nation’s War Cry. Forward to Richmond! Forward to Richmond! The Rebel Congress must not be allowed to meet there on the twentieth of July! By that date the place must be held by the National Army!” – Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune Union General Irvin McDowell figured that he could [...]
Eric | July 13, 2011
Saturday, July 13, 1861 Picking up the trail of the fleeing Rebels wasn’t so tough. Along the road to New Interest, western Virginia [modern-day Kerens], lay the discarded personal belongings and camp supplies of General Garnett’s retreating army. The road chosen by the Confederates grew narrow and became more like an abandoned path than a [...]
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