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Eric | December 31, 2011
With the close of 2011, we see on the Civil War Daily Gazette, the close of 1861. On the blog, as in life, I tend not to focus on arbitrary things like the end of the year. In the Civil War, New Year’s Day was just another day for the soldiers, and just another White [...]
Eric | December 31, 2011
December 31, 1861 (New Year’s Eve – Tuesday) This had certainly been a strange year for Thomas J. Jackson. At its start, he was a professor at the Virginia Military Institute, under the immediate command of William Gilham. The United States flag flew over the parade grounds and they all still held true to the [...]
Eric | December 30, 2011
December 30, 1861 (Monday) The one thing that Missouri needed, believed General Sterling Price, was the Confederate Army. Price, the commander of the secessionist Missouri State Guard, had pleaded for months that the official Confederate armies come to his assistance in the southwestern part of the state. After a foray north towards Lexington, he had [...]
Eric | December 29, 2011
December 29, 1861 (Sunday) Since the Union defeat at the Battle of Bull Run, Ambrose Burnside had been promoted from colonel to brigadier-general and placed in command of the rawest recruits in the Army of the Potomac, under General George McClellan. Quickly growing bored of being little more than a glorified drill sergeant, Burnside, along [...]
Eric | December 28, 2011
December 28, 1861 (Saturday) Two days before Christmas, the commander of Union forces in Missouri, General Henry Halleck, began to crack down upon secessionist bridge burners in the northern part of the state. To suppress the insurrectionists, he placed General Benjamin Prentiss in charge of the troops near the Northern Missouri Railroad. His orders were [...]
Eric | December 27, 2011
December 27, 1861 (Friday) Perhaps it was the Yuletide spirit, still lingering jubilant in the air of the Confederacy, that tricked the fate of Harrison Self, an Eastern Tennessee bridge burner who had been captured and was to be executed at 4pm. Since the heart-wrenching death of fellow bridge burner, Alexander Haun, at least two [...]
Eric | December 26, 2011
December 26, 1861 (Thursday) The celebrations of Christmas had not stood in the way of Lincoln’s Cabinet meetings and the discussion of what to do with James Mason and John Slidell, Confederate envoys to England and France, taken prisoner aboard the British vessel Trent. The incident had sparked much controversy and threatened to plunge the [...]
Eric | December 25, 2011
December 25, 1861 (Wednesday – Christmas) For some, the first Christmas of the war was a time of rest, where drills and military formalities took a short day off. Around Washington, the mood was full of apprehension and gloom over the Trent Affair, as well as gloom, if the past year was considered in the [...]
Eric | December 24, 2011
December 24, 1861 (Tuesday, Christmas Eve) Since the Battle of Allegheny Mountain, a week and a half ago, Confederate General William Loring’s Army of the Northwest had been slowly filtering into Winchester, Virginia to fortify General Stonewall Jackson’s numbers for a winter campaign towards Romney. During the long wait, an anxious Jackson again attempted to [...]
Eric | December 23, 2011
December 23, 1861 (Monday) It was a very mild day for being so deep into December. In fact, the past week had been pleasantly dry and warm in Washington. For President Lincoln and his Cabinet, the lovely weather had been all but ignored as they squirreled themselves away in their offices and meeting rooms to [...]
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