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Eric | November 30, 2011
November 30, 1861 (Saturday) “Two insurgents have to-day been tried for bridge-burning, found guilty and hanged.” -Col. Danville Leadbetter to Confederate Secretary of War Judah Benjamin.1 On the same day that Secretary Benjamin gave the order that those who were found guilty of burning bridges in Eastern Tennessee must be put to death, Col. Leadbetter, [...]
Eric | November 29, 2011
November 29, 1861 (Friday) “There never was within memory such a burst of feeling as has been created by the news of the boarding of the La Plata [Trent],” wrote Charles MacKay, a Scottish poet living in England. The news that Confederate envoys, James Mason and John Slidell, had been seized from a British vessel [...]
Eric | November 28, 2011
November 28, 1861 (Thanksgiving Thursday) Pacifism and peace societies, especially during the Victorian Era, have most often been associated with New England. In times of war, such conscientious objectors are often painted as unpatriotic cowards or religious zealots, such as the Shakers, Quakers or Dunkers. Though it’s largely been seen as a Northern phenomena, New [...]
Eric | November 27, 2011
November 27, 1861 (Wednesday) News of the legally-questionable seizure of James Mason and John Slidell, Confederate envoys to England and France, on this date reached England. At the time of their capture, the prisoners were aboard the neutral British vessel Trent in international waters. The news arrived in London in the form of a report [...]
Eric | November 26, 2011
November 26, 1861 (Tuesday) Union officers in Missouri were in a complete fog when it came to the whereabouts, strength and plans of General Sterling Price of the secessionist Missouri State Guards. General Henry Halleck, and many others, believed that he had slipped south, across the Arkansas border. Others believed he was still in or [...]
Eric | November 25, 2011
November 25, 1861 (Monday) The near-permanent smile upon the face of Confederate Secretary of War Judah P. Benjamin could be misleading. When it came to those who rebelled against the Rebels’ rebellion, he had nothing but disdain. Some of the Unionists of East Tennessee who had burned five important railroad bridges had been captured. Col. [...]
Eric | November 24, 2011
November 24, 1861 (Sunday) The storm of the previous night had kept Captain Charles Wilkes and the USS San Jacinto just outside of Boston Harbor. Their cargo, the prisoners, James Mason and John Slidell, Confederate envoys to England and France, stored inside under the guard of a US Marshal. The voyage from Fortress Monroe to [...]
Eric | November 23, 2011
November 23, 1861 (Saturday) The Union guns at Fort Pickens, barely cooled from the previous day’s fighting, sounded again this morning. Col. Harvey Brown and his Federal force had already done much damage to Fort McRee and wished to drive the Rebels from their fortifications at Pensacola, Florida. The US Naval ship Niagara stood in [...]
Eric | November 22, 2011
November 22, 1861 (Friday) It had been a month and a half since the Rebel surprise attack on Santa Rosa Island and Fort Pickens, near Pensacola, Florida. Since then, an uneasy peace had settled between the Union’s Fort Pickens and the Rebel Fort McRee, each on opposite sides of the channel, nearly a mile and [...]
Eric | November 21, 2011
November 21, 1861 (Thursday) “Tories now quiet, but not convinced. Executions needed,” wrote S.A.M. Wood, the brash Confederate Colonel from Alabama, who referred to General William Carroll as “stupid, but easily controlled” to Secretary of War Judah P. Benjamin, concerning the Unionist uprising in Eastern Tennessee.1 Also writing to Benjamin was Col. William B. Wood [...]
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