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Eric | August 31, 2011
Saturday, August 31, 1861 Since the fall of Fort Hatteras, Union General Butler had noticed the importance of holding this section of North Carolina coast. After he gave his report to General Wool, his commander at Fortress Monroe, Wool sent him to Washington on “Official Business.” This was, apparently, to convince the War Department to [...]
Eric | August 30, 2011
Friday, August 30, 1861 There was no getting around how much of a mess Missouri had become in the months since armies marched across its borders. St. Louis had erupted in a murderous riot, the center of the state tolerated an overthrow of the government, the southwestern counties suffered the battles of Carthage and Wilson’s [...]
Eric | August 29, 2011
Thursday, August 29, 1861 The Union Navy fleet under Flag Officer Silas Sternham had succeeded in shutting down a Rebel battery and clearing out Fort Clark on Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. The morning found the situation much the same. The Confederates appeared to be holding out in Fort Hatteras, like Clark, a log and sand [...]
Eric | August 28, 2011
Wednesday, August 28, 1861 The Union Navy fleet arrived off the coast of Cape Hatteras the day prior. The night was passed readying the troops for the War’s first beach landing. General Butler left the flagship USS Minnesota to oversee the infantry operation from the Harriet Lane. The entire mission was under Navy Flag Officer [...]
Eric | August 27, 2011
Tuesday, August 27, 1861 In Western Virginia, the routed Union troops from the sharp skirmish at Carnifex Ferry were still wandering back to their main camp at Gauley Bridge. The victorious Confederates under General Floyd did not follow them or attempt to move in Charleston, but instead fortified their camp and hoped to cut off [...]
Eric | August 26, 2011
Monday, August 26, 1861 Halting a Union force a half mile from a Rebel force four times his number, Col. Tyler’s men were caught completely by surprise as Confederate General Floyd and his 2,000 men invited themselves to breakfast. Floyd had held Carnifex Ferry in Western Virginia for a few days after it was abandoned [...]
Eric | August 25, 2011
Sunday, August 25, 1861 General Benjamin Butler, in the years following the Civil War, took credit for the conception of an attack upon Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. It was, said Butler, his idea, his plan and everything moved at his discretion. What the General left out of his Memoirs, however, was his desire in late [...]
Eric | August 24, 2011
Saturday, August 24, 1861 The suppression of Democratic newspapers was not about to take a weekend off. For weeks now, a small Connecticut paper called the Bridgeport Advertiser & Farmer had received warnings from the local Republicans and the Federal government. The Farmer was indeed anti-Lincoln, calling him a “despot” and accusing him of assuming [...]
Eric | August 23, 2011
Friday, August 23, 1861 In what was looking like a move to permanently end the squabbling of two Confederate Generals in Western Virginia, General Floyd wrote to Secretary of War LeRoy Walker in Richmond. General Wise, Floyd’s rival in the small Army of the Kanawha, was busy marching his Legion the seventeen miles back to [...]
Eric | August 22, 2011
Thursday, August 22, 1861 New York newspapers named by the Grand Jury convened on August 16, were banned from the United States Postal Service. The order came directly from Montgomery Blair, Lincoln’s Postmaster General, who wrote “none of the newspapers published in New York city which were lately presented by the grand jury as dangerous, [...]
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