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Eric | September 21, 2011
Saturday, September 21, 1861 Since taking command of all Confederate troops in the Trans-Mississippi, General Albert Sidney Johnston had decided upon making a full scale invasion of Kentucky. Thus far, three small armies held three strategic positions in the state, creating a thinly stretched line from Cumberland Gap in the east to the Mississippi River [...]
Eric | September 20, 2011
Friday, September 20, 1861 The siege of Lexington had lasted well over a week. The past two days, however, saw the most intense fighting. Union Col. Mulligan’s 3,500 men were running short on supplies and ammunition. Still, he held out hope that General Fremont had come through for him and reinforcements were on the way. [...]
Eric | September 19, 2011
Thursday, September 19, 1861 The Lexington, Missouri morning quickly grew hot as the sun shown over the Union fortifications, completely surrounded by Rebels, north of town. Though each side was already exchanging shots with the other, Northern troops had run out of water, making the day seem even hotter than it was. As they bit [...]
Eric | September 18, 2011
Wednesday, September 18, 1861 All that General Sterling Price had been waiting for was now ready and before him. He and his 10,000 Missouri State Guards had marched from Springfield, following their victorious Battle of Wilson’s Creek, to Lexington, a distance of over 150 miles. His cavalry and infantry out-marched their ammunition trains. The previous [...]
Eric | September 17, 2011
Tuesday, September 17, 1861 Before the War, Albert Sidney Johnston commanded the United States Department of the Pacific. When word finally reached California that Texas had seceded from the Union, he joined up with the Los Angeles Mounted Rifles, a secessionist outfit, and headed through the desert in the middle of summer, passed through a [...]
Eric | September 16, 2011
Monday, September 16, 1861 Events in Missouri had been careening wildly out of control for weeks. General John C. Fremont, commander of the Union Western Department, was almost trying his best to keep it together. While General Ulysses S. Grant commanded troops along the Mississippi River at Cairo, Illinios and Padukah, Kentucky and southeast Missouri, [...]
Eric | September 15, 2011
Sunday, September 15, 1861 In the five months that had passed since Montgomery Meigs co-authored the plans to reinforce Fort Pickens, he had risen in rank from Captain to Brigadier-General. Earning the trust of President Lincoln, he, along with Postmaster General Montgomery Blair, were sent to St. Louis to investigate General Fremont. Secretary Blair’s brother, [...]
Eric | September 14, 2011
Saturday, September 14, 1861 For two days, General Lee’s troops from the Army of the Northwest were poised around Cheat Mountain and Elkwater in Western Virginia. His complex plan of a surprise attack had failed the first day and his plan to get around the Union flank on the second day met with not much [...]
Eric | September 13, 2011
Friday, September 13, 1861 The odd, almost-battle of the previous day left both sides more or less in the same positions. The Union held Cheat Mountain and Elkwater, seven miles to the west. The Confederates occupied the Union front, rear the right flank at Cheat, and the front and left flank at Elkwater. Lee’s plan [...]
Eric | September 12, 2011
Thursday, September 12, 1861 The Confederate plan of attack at Cheat Mountain in Western Virginia was, by dawn, ready. Each of the five brigades were in position and the Union forces on Cheat and at Elkwater, seven miles to the west, were completely unaware that General Lee was about to attack them. General Lee had [...]
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