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Eric | August 21, 2011
Wednesday, August 21, 1861 The land that is, in modern times, known as “Oklahoma” was, at the time of the Civil War, known only as “Indian Territory.” It was to Indian Territory that the Trail of Tears led in the 1830s. The Five Civilized Tribes (Choctaw, Seminole, Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Creek) were forcibly relocated from [...]
Eric | August 20, 2011
Tuesday, August 20, 1861 For the past two weeks, prominent western Virginians had been meeting in Wheeling to discuss forming their own state. The Second Session of the Second Wheeling Convention had been under way since August 6 and had finally proposed a dismemberment ordinance a week later. Since then, the delegates had debated everything [...]
Eric | August 19, 2011
Living in the Pacific Northwest, I don’t have easy access to Civil War battlefields, cemeteries and other historical odds and ends. Sometimes it seems that there’s not even history to be had out here. Fortunately, that just isn’t true. It takes some digging, but eventually I find it. Sometimes, it even pertains to the Civil [...]
Eric | August 19, 2011
Monday, August 19, 1861 While some of the troopers of the pro-secessionist Missouri State Guard were in the towns of Commerce and Benton generally terrorizing the Unionist population, another squad, 500-strong, under the command of Colonel J.H. Hunter, had marched east towards the Mississippi River. Their main objective was to keep on the move, harassing [...]
Eric | August 18, 2011
Sunday, August 18, 1861 Confederate General Leonidas “The Fighting Bishop” Polk, commander of troops between the Mississippi and Tennessee Rivers, wished to secure Island No. 10, off the shores of New Madrid, Missouri. He had ordered General Pillow at New Madrid to see to it, even selecting the Colonel for the job. At first, Pillow [...]
Eric | August 17, 2011
Saturday, August 17, 1861 This day was a bureaucratic shake up. Commanders and departments were changed, combined and eliminated. General Benjamin Butler, Union commander of the Department of Virginia, headquartered at Fortress Monroe, had received notice on August 11 that General John Ellis Wool was to replace him. No further orders were issued for Butler, [...]
Eric | August 16, 2011
Friday, August 16, 1861 General John Floyd, commanding the Confederate Army of the Kanawha, grew weary of waiting for General Wise to get his act together. For the past several days, he had pushed, prodded and ordered Wise to march his Legion of troops to join his west of Lewisburg, western Virginia. A blizzard of [...]
Eric | August 15, 2011
Thursday, August 15, 1861 The famous Major Robert Anderson of Fort Sumter fame was, by this time, a Brigadier-General. Though his health was failing, he had been placed in command of the Department of Kentucky. Due to that state’s policy of supposed neutrality, Anderson had made his headquarters in Cincinnati. In recent weeks, he had [...]
Eric | August 14, 2011
Wednesday, August 14, 1861 The last thing Washington needed to hear was the news of yet another defeat. Clacking its way over the telegraph lines from St. Louis, however, was exactly that. The previous day, General Ulysses S. Grant reported to General Fremont, commander of the Western Department, that there were rumors of 3,000 Rebel [...]
Eric | August 13, 2011
Tuesday, August 13, 1861 The long march of retreat from the Wilson’s Creek battlefield to Rolla, Missouri entered its third hot and dusty day. The column of defeated Union troops waited in the increasingly uncomfortable sun for three hours, while General Sigel allowed his German troops to eat a hearty breakfast. The cries for Sigel’s [...]
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