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Eric | December 22, 2011
December 22, 1861 (Sunday) Like the Confederates in Eastern Tennessee, Union General Henry Halleck, commander of the Department of Missouri, was not going to allow his enemies to burn bridges and get away with it. The previous day, a colonel commanding an outpost in Montgomery County, eighty miles west of St. Louis, reported “that several [...]
Eric | December 21, 2011
December 21, 1861 (Saturday) In Missouri, General Sterling Price had not been feeling very loved by the Confederate Government. His command, the Missouri State Guards, was still an independent command and in great need of reinforcements. The closest troops were under General Ben McCulloch, whom he had fought with at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek. [...]
Eric | December 20, 2011
December 20, 1861 (Friday) Confederate General Jeb Stuart, typically remembered as a dashing cavalry officer, was given command of a brigade of infantry, a battery of artillery and some cavalry. His mission was to collect as much hay as he could from the Dranesville area, just northwest of Washington, DC. By dawn, he and his [...]
Eric | December 19, 2011
December 19, 1861 (Thursday) Four days after Secretary of State William Seward unloaded to President Lincoln his nervous apprehensions about Great Britain’s possible desire to wage war on the United States, a visit was paid to him by Lord Richard Lyons, England’s Minister to the United States. Neither he nor Seward had breathed a word [...]
Eric | December 18, 2011
December 18, 1861 (Wednesday) Four thousand poorly-equipped Rebel recruits of the Missouri State Guard, only half of which were armed, were hardly a match for Union General John Pope’s troops, who spent the previous day scattering the lot of them across southwestern Missouri. By dawn of this day, the last remaining five hundred or so [...]
Eric | December 17, 2011
December 17, 1861 (Tuesday) It had been a month since Union General Don Carlos Buell took over the Department of the Ohio from General William Tecumseh Sherman. For a time, little had changed. Buell was just as reluctant to push forward as Sherman did. Though there was much prodding from Washington, Buell seemed unsure what [...]
Eric | December 16, 2011
December 16, 1861 (Monday) While the drudging that Union forces took at Ball’s Bluff was of nearly no military consequence, its political ripples were just now being felt. Congress had recently established the Joint-Committee on the Conduct of the Present War, which consisted of three Senators and four Representatives. Since the battle, blame had been [...]
Eric | December 15, 2011
December 15, 1861 (Sunday) Secretary of State William Seward simply could take no more haranguing from the British press, which had been ablaze since news of the capture of James Mason and John Slidell, lapped upon their shores. He was, said some across the pond, hoping to provoke a war with England in hopes of [...]
Eric | December 14, 2011
December 14, 1861 (Saturday) While events in the east seemed to transpire with relative swiftness, things in the west, especially the southwest, evolved with much more laxity. It had been a month and a half since Confederate Col. John Baylor had written to General Henry Hopkins Sibley, informing him that Union troops under Col. Edward [...]
Eric | December 13, 2011
December 13, 1861 (Friday) The two wings of General Milroy’s small Union force in Western Virginia had split the previous day, after pushing back the Confederate pickets in a sharp skirmish along the Greenbrier River. While the Rebels retreated to Camp Allegheny (their main fort) Milroy enacted a plan to simultaneously attack the right and [...]
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