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Eric | October 21, 2011
Monday, October 21, 1861 In the fading light of the previous evening, a Union scouting party crossed the Potomac near Ball’s Bluff, and stumbled onto what they believed to be an unguarded Confederate camp outside of Leesburg, Virginia. General Charles Stone, Union commander, ordered Col. Charles Devens to take 300 men, capture the camp and [...]
Eric | October 20, 2011
Sunday, October 20, 1861 Union General George B. McClellan had noticed that most of the Confederates inching closer and closer to Washington since the Battle of Manassas, were pulling back to that original battleground. Leesburg, roughly forty miles from the capital, was another story altogether. Though rumors and some preliminary scouting suggested otherwise, General Nathan [...]
Eric | October 19, 2011
Saturday, October 19, 1861 General George McClellan had spent most of his time in Washington preparing his Army of the Potomac to defend the capital against a Confederate attack. After Bull Run, the Confederates had inched closer and closer, but over the past few days, it seemed as if they were withdrawing towards Fairfax and [...]
Eric | October 18, 2011
Friday, October 18, 1861 General-in-Chief Winfield Scott, seventy-five years old, knew it was time to retire. The strain of commanding the entire Union army had become too much to bear. Much of that stress came from General George B. McClellan, called to Washington by Scott, himself, to aid the ailing General. It was clear that [...]
Eric | October 17, 2011
Thursday, October 17, 1861 The Union Navy was quickly realizing that it stood no chance of catching up with the CSS Nashville, the steamer they thought was carrying Confederate envoys to Europe, James Mason and John Slidell. Two ships, the USS James Adger and USS Curlew had been dispatched to intercept the Nashville. While the [...]
Eric | October 16, 2011
Wednesday, October 16, 1861 When word of General Jeff Thompson’s raid along the Ironton Railroad and destruction of the Big River Bridge reached General Fremont, he knew just who to blame. This was all Frank Blair Jr.’s fault. Though he never mentioned Blair by name, Fremont, through his “acting aide-de-camp,” explained that ,”the effect of [...]
Eric | October 15, 2011
Tuesday, October 15, 1861 General Jeff Thompson, of the Missouri State Guards, planned a northward push towards St. Louis, Missouri. His main goal was to destroy the Ironton Railroad and distract some Union forces away from General Sterling Price in the southwest corner of the state. Thompson and 3,000 troops (500 cavalry, 2,500 infantry, including [...]
Eric | October 14, 2011
Monday, October 14, 1861 Chincoteague Island, Virginia is mostly remembered for the legend of a Spanish galleon transporting horses that wrecked off the coast in the 1750s. The horses supposedly swam to the island, became wild and are there to this day. That, however, is probably just a myth. Though there are no wild horses [...]
Eric | October 13, 2011
Sunday, October 13, 1861 General Fremont’s Army of the West (also unofficially called the Army of the Southwest), had been gathering to advance upon the Missouri State Guard army of General Sterling Price, falling back towards the southwest corder of the state. Union General Hunter’s Division had gathered around Tipton, but a few regiments, like [...]
Eric | October 12, 2011
Saturday, October 12, 1861 At this point in the War, Confederate President Jefferson Davis was clear about several things. For one, the quick victory that many expected after Bull Run was not going to happen. For another, as the War tarried on, the Union blockade of Southern ports would only grow tighter. Also, the Confederacy [...]
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