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Eric | January 31, 2012
January 31, 1862 (Friday) General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson trudged his way through the soft and silent snow to his headquarters in Winchester, Virginia. It was early dawn and messages from the previous evening had piled upon his desk, creating miniature snowbanks across his blotter. Since the start of the Romney Campaign, when he was joined [...]
Eric | January 30, 2012
January 30, 1862 (Thursday) Things were moving swiftly for Henry Halleck, Union commander in Missouri. His plan to fall upon Fort Henry along the Tennessee River had been echoed by General Grant, who wanted to strike immediately. Halleck wanted to hold off until he had 60,000 men and a commander who wasn’t Ulysses S. Grant. [...]
Eric | January 29, 2012
January 29, 1862 (Wednesday) With petition in hand, Confederate General William B. Taliaferro rode into Richmond, hoping to stir up some changes on the Stonewall Jackson front. Taliaferro had been in the thick of the plot to move General Loring’s Army of the Northwest from the hole that was Romney, Virginia [now West Virginia] to [...]
Eric | January 28, 2012
January 28, 1862 (Tuesday) “With permission, I will take Fort Henry, on the Tennessee, and establish and hold a large camp there.” -Brigadier-General U.S. Grant General Grant, commander of what would soon be called the Union Army of the Tennessee, had formulated a plan to take Fort Henry, along the Tennessee River. He, along with [...]
Eric | January 27, 2012
January 27, 1862 (Monday) In the eyes of President Lincoln, what little forward momentum that existed in the Union war effort had been coldly swept away in the snows of January. While it was true that there was a victory in Kentucky and some stirrings in Missouri, it was clear that the Army of the [...]
Eric | January 26, 2012
January 26, 1862 (Sunday) With the Union victory at Mill Springs, General Don Carlos Buell, commander of the Department of the Ohio, was handed two opportunities. The Rebels, under General George Crittenden, had been scattered, leaving the door to Eastern Tennessee wide open but slightly defended. It also freed up General Thomas, Union commander at [...]
Eric | January 25, 2012
January 25, 1862 (Saturday) Despite the warnings from his friends, General Pierre Gustav Toutant Beauregard had accepted President Davis’ invitation to leave his command under General Joe Johnston near Manassas, and take up a new command under General Albert Sidney Johnston in Tennessee. The previous day, Roger Pryor, acting as liaison between the President and [...]
Eric | January 24, 2012
January 24, 1862 (Friday) Though several months had passed since the October 1st meeting between President Davis and Confederate Generals Johnston, Beauregard and G.W. Smith, little of note had transpired within the Rebel camp between Manassas and Washington. During the meeting, all three generals stood united as they proposed Beauregard’s plan to invade Maryland and [...]
Eric | January 23, 2012
January 23, 1862 (Thursday) To most of the South, Stonewall Jackson had completed his mission. And on paper, perhaps he did. He had marched his army from Winchester, tormented the Yankees at Hancock, Maryland and then took Romney without a fight. But left out of that seemingly simple operation were the privations and sufferings of [...]
Eric | January 22, 2012
January 22, 1862 (Wednesday) Since learning of the defeat of General George Crittenden’s Rebels at Mill Springs, General Albert Sidney Johnston was in a near panic. With only 2,000 or so Southern soldiers at Cumberland Gap, there was little stopping Union General Buell from advancing. While the defeat was a major blow to stopping the [...]
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