*Breaking The Third Wall* 1861 Raids & Riots 1862 Naval Actions Army of Central Kentucky Army of Mississippi Army of New Mexico Army of Tennessee Army of the Cumberland Army of the Kanawha Army of the Mississippi (US) Army of the Northwest Army of the Ohio Army of the Peninsula Army of the Potomac Army of the Potomac (CS) Army of the Shenandoah (CS) Army of the Shenandoah (US) Army of the Southwest Army of the Tennessee Army of the West (CS) Army of the West (US) Army of Virginia (US) Atlantic Coast Atlantic Coast '61 Baltimore Area Baltimore Riots Blockade Burnside's Coastal Division Burnside's Expedition '62 Caribbean Charleston Harbor Chesapeake Bay Confederate Politics Defense of Washington Fortress Monroe Area Forts Henry & Donelson Gulf Forts Gulf of Mexico Gulf of Mexico '62 Hampton Roads Harper's Ferry Homefront Indian Territory '61 Island No. 10 '62 Kentucky & Tennessee '62 Kentucky '61 Manassas Area '61 Mason & Slidell Mississippi River Missouri State Guard Native Affairs Navy (CSA) Navy (US) North Atlantic Coast '62 Operations to Control Missouri Pea Ridge Potomac River Regular Army Resupplying Fort Pickens Resupplying Fort Sumter Rockville Expedition Shenandoah Valley Shenandoah Valley '62 Sibley's New Mexico Campaign Slavery State Militia & Volunteers (US) State Troops & Home Guards (CS) Texas & New Mexico The Peninsula '62 Trent Affair Western Waters '62 West Virginia '61
Eric | September 30, 2011
Monday, September 30, 1861 The armies in Western Virginia had sat upon opposing spurs of Big Sewell Mountain for nearly a week. General Robert E. Lee’s Army of the Kanawha occupied an incredibly strong defensive position and hoped that General Rosecrans’ 8,500 Union troops would attack. Rosecrans, whose entrenchments were nearly as strong as Lee’s, [...]
Eric | September 29, 2011
Sunday, September 29, 1861 Though Union General Fremont’s Army of the West was scattered over much of Missouri, disorganized and confused, it was slowly gathering together. The General himself had left St. Louis and was, like the rest of the Army, heading in the direction of Lexington, scene of the latest Union defeat. Fremont’s move [...]
Eric | September 28, 2011
Saturday, September 28, 1861 It had been over two months since the Confederate victory at Bull Run. Since then, General Joseph E. Johnston had struggled to keep his Confederate Army of the Potomac afloat, while rebuilding and reorganizing it. Thousands of recruits had joined its ranks, swelling its numbers to over 40,000 men. Prior to [...]
Eric | September 27, 2011
Friday, September 27, 1861 Through the rain, mud and disorganization along the Confederate lines in Western Virginia, General Robert E. Lee stared across the mile-wide gulch separating his Army of the Kanawha from General Rosecrans’ Union force. Each army occupied a spur of Big Sewell Mountain, twenty-one miles west of Lewisburg. As Lee established his [...]
Eric | September 26, 2011
Thursday, September 26, 1861 General John C. Fremont’s plan to organize and move the Army of the West from various points in Missouri to Lexington was creating a plethora of logistical problems. General Pope, commanding the right wing of the army, wasn’t even in the state. He had been ordered by Fremont to Iowa to [...]
Eric | September 25, 2011
Wednesday, September 25, 1861 As dawn broke over the mountains in Western Virginia, General Lee could be found riding along the Confederate lines, observing the Union forces, a mile west. Though General Henry Wise, who had held the position for a week or more, assured Lee that the Union forces of Generals Cox and Rosecrans [...]
Eric | September 24, 2011
Tuesday, September 24, 1861 General Lee was up by 4am, worried that Wise’s Legion, twelve miles in front of him, would be overrun, or have its flank turned. If that happened, the divided Confederate Army of the Kanawha would be whipped in detail, destroyed before it could make a united stand. Due to some misunderstanding, [...]
Eric | September 23, 2011
Monday, September 23, 1861 It had been over two months since the Union defeat at Bull Run. Since then, General George B. McClellan had taken command of the Army of the Potomac and defenses of Washington. As he built his Army, filtering new regiments into the fold, he constructed a ring of fortifications around Washington. [...]
Eric | September 22, 2011
About a week ago, the Civil War Daily Gazette had its 100,000th pageview.1 It’s not, when compared to other blogs, a huge milestone, but I have to admit that I’m pretty happy about it, especially since I’ve only been posting for about ten and a half months. Pageviews are what old statistic trackers used to [...]
Eric | September 22, 2011
Sunday, September 22, 1861 Since the opening guns at Fort Sumter, war had erupted in eastern and western Virginia, all across Missouri, along the Atlantic coast and as far southwest as New Mexico. For a time, Kentuckians believed they could keep the war out of their state. Though their boys had gone both North and [...]
Eric on Confederate Victory in New Mexico
Keith Winkler on Confederate Victory in New MexicoEric on Confederate Victory in New Mexico
Kenneth Kellogg on Confederate Victory in New Mexico
Lynn (NM Enchantment) on Confederate Victory in New MexicoEric on Deep Sand and Exploding Mules in New Mexico; Halleck Wants Command
Civil War Horror (Sean McLachlan) on Deep Sand and Exploding Mules in New Mexico; Halleck Wants Command
Dave Boyes on Rebels in New Mexico Plan to Capture a Fort; First Battle in ArkansasEric on Rebels in New Mexico Plan to Capture a Fort; First Battle in ArkansasCivil War Horror (Sean McLachlan) on Rebels in New Mexico Plan to Capture a Fort; First Battle in ArkansasCivil War Daily Gazette is powered by broccoli and tofu. 