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Eric | November 20, 2011
November 20, 1861 (Wednesday) Just south of Winchester, Virginia, Stonewall Jackson, now reunited with the brigade that bore his name, was planning a winter campaign. Union reports of the time asserted that Jackson had as many as 26,000 men. Jackson, on the other hand, supposed Union forces poised to invade the valley were around 40,000. [...]
Eric | November 19, 2011
November 19, 1861 (Tuesday) Though it seemed that the Five Civilized Tribes were united in support of the Confederacy, one Unionist holdout remained. The treaties with the South stated that they would only have to fight if their Indian Territory [modern-day Oklahoma] was invaded by Union troops. There was, however, a faction in the Creek [...]
Eric | November 18, 2011
November 18, 1861 (Monday) The state of Kentucky had an identity crisis. On one hand, the legislature was largely pro-Union. The Governor, Beriah Magoffin, was, by now, pro-Secession. When the Confederate forces under General Polk entered Kentucky, the state legislature passed a resolution that Magoffin demand the Rebel forces to leave the state. At first, [...]
Eric | November 17, 2011
November 17, 1861 (Sunday) The capture of James Mason and John Slidell, Confederate envoys to England and France, was being spread by word of mouth, via the telegraph, all up and down the east coast. Since the news came too late the previous day to go to print, and because this date was a Sunday, [...]
Eric | November 16, 2011
November 16, 1861 (Saturday) Washington, DC was awash in the rumors that the Confederate envoys to Europe, James Mason and John Slidell, had been captured en route to England. Captain Charles Wilkes, who had seized and was delivering the diplomats to New York, had dispatched a messenger, Captain Albert Taylor, to meet with Naval Secretary [...]
Eric | November 15, 2011
November 15, 1861 (Friday) It took a week for the USS San Jacinto to steam from the Bermuda Channel to Fortress Monroe in Hampton Roads, Virginia. On board were the prisoners James Mason and John Slidell, Confederate envoys to Europe, who had been captured aboard the British ship, Trent, amid protests of the British officers. [...]
Eric | November 14, 2011
November 14, 1861 (Thursday) William Tecumseh Sherman, Union commander of the troops in Kentucky and Tennessee, was thought to be insane. During an October 17 meeting with Secretary of War Simon Cameron, he suggested that he needed 200,000 troops to hold Kentucky. When it hit the press that the request was insane, it quickly devolved [...]
Eric | November 13, 2011
November 13, 1861 (Wednesday) General George B. McClellan, commander of the Union Army, was very intent on doing things his own way. Because of this, he was quickly piling on enemies. The most public was, of course, General Winfield Scott, who was, by this time, retired at his West Point home. Some were against him [...]
Eric | November 12, 2011
November 12, 1861 (Tuesday) “Civil war has broken out at length in East Tennessee,” wrote the eccentric attorney from Jonesborough, A.G. Graham, to Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Writing in a panic over the recent spat of bridge burnings undertaken by local Unionists, Graham was sure that they were just as strong as the Unionists in [...]
Eric | November 11, 2011
November 11, 1861 (Monday) The news of the massacre of Union troops by Confederate partisans under Col. Albert Jenkins at Guyandotte in Western Virginia, was both false and spreading quickly up and down the Ohio River. It was true that Jenkins had surprised, battled and then captured most of the Yankees under Major Kellian Whaley’s [...]
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