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Eric | October 31, 2011
October 31, 1861 (Thursday, Halloween) “For more than three years I have been unable, from a hurt, to mount a horse or walk more than a few paces at a time, and that with much pain. Other and new infirmities, dropsy and vertigo, admonish me that a repose of mind and body, with the appliances [...]
Eric | October 30, 2011
October 30, 1861 (Wednesday) For several days, President Lincoln and General McClellan had met, along with a few Cabinet members here and there, to discuss the future of the Army of the Potomac. The rift between McClellan and General-in-Chief Winfield Scott (and their staffs) was making headlines in the press. Winfield Scott was getting up [...]
Eric | October 29, 2011
October 29, 1861 (Tuesday) Throughout the summer and early autumn of 1861, it became clear that a full, successful blockade of South Atlantic ports was nearly impossible. The blockade of Charleston, specifically, involved a refueling issue. The ships had to return to a northern port for more coal. Seizing a Southern port and turning it [...]
Eric | October 28, 2011
Monday, October 28, 1861 Union General John C. Fremont’s occupation of Springfield, Missouri was part of his southward thrust towards the Missouri State Guard under General Sterling Price, now occupying Neosho, seventy miles southwest. There, what was left of the secessionist Missouri legislature was meeting and attempting to pass an ordinance of secession. Though Governor [...]
Eric | October 27, 2011
Sunday, October 27, 1861 The small, but surprising, Union victory in Springfield, Missouri on the 25th had paved the way for General John C. Fremont and his Army of the West to enter the town on this date. Fremont arrived towards evening, accompanied by an infantry division commanded by General Franz Sigel. For a month, [...]
Eric | October 26, 2011
Saturday, October 26, 1861 Our Friend, the Little Pony, is to Run No More The Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company, founded on April 3, 1860, and more famously remembered as the Pony Express, on this date, announced that it would be shutting down operations. Just two days prior, the Transcontinental Telegraph line [...]
Eric | October 25, 2011
Friday, October 25, 1861 Though he had been, more or less, fired the previous day, it would take awhile for General John C. Fremont to hear of the news. In the meantime, he and his Army of the West were about fifty miles north of Springfield, Missouri, encamped along the Pomme de Terre River. Just [...]
Eric | October 24, 2011
Thursday, October 24, 1861 In the early days of the war, news from east coast to the west traveled no faster than a horse. Specifically, no faster than a pony of the Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company, otherwise known as the Pony Express, which bragged that it could get mail from Missouri [...]
Eric | October 23, 2011
Wednesday, October 23, 1861 As dawn broke over the Potomac at Ball’s Bluff, near Leesburg, Virginia, General McClellan was assessing the situation. The disaster of a battle two days previous had sent the nation into a panic. Though it was a relatively small affair, this was the second rout of a Union army near Washington. [...]
Eric | October 22, 2011
Tuesday, October 22, 1861 Everything was still being sorted out at Ball’s Bluff. The battle had ended after nightfall in a crushing and confusing defeat for the Union. Telegrams between General Stone, commanding at the battle, General McClellan and President Lincoln shot across the wires through the night. In Washington, Lincoln was heartbroken to learn [...]
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