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Eric | January 21, 2012
January 21, 1862 (Tuesday) General Ulysses Grant and a band of 15,000 had spent the better part of a week making a diversion in western Kentucky. The object was to keep the Rebels in the western portion of the state from reinforcing those in the eastern portion. This was done so General Buell in Louisville [...]
Eric | January 20, 2012
January 20, 1862 (Monday) Unknown to Union General Thomas, the Rebels under General Crittenden had escaped under darkness, across the Cumberland River, into southern Kentucky. In the lonely moments before dawn, the last of the Confederates landed on the southern banks and burned the steamer used to ferry them across. As the morning broke, Thomas [...]
Eric | January 19, 2012
January 19, 1862 (Sunday) They marched north through the night, through a January thunderstorm. The column, led by General Felix Zollicoffer, 4,000-strong, stumbled upon Federal cavalry at dawn, greeting the sun with the rapid crackle of musket fire. For over a month, the Rebels had been on the north bank of the Cumberland River, near [...]
Eric | January 18, 2012
January 18, 1862 (Saturday) Through December and early January, Union General Don Carlos Buell had been urged, poked, prodded, begged, implored and beseeched by both President Lincoln and General McClellan to advance into Eastern Tennessee from his base in Kentucky. Buell, however, always had an excuse as to why he couldn’t. For a time, it [...]
Eric | January 17, 2012
January 17, 1862 (Friday) Maybe Stonewall Jackson’s eyes were bigger than his belly. When he planned the Winter Romney Expedition, he expected to have more troops, less enemies and better weather. But even though he took Romney without firing a shot, and fulfilled what most believed to be the campaign’s objective, he was not satisfied. [...]
Eric | January 16, 2012
January 16, 1862 (Thursday) The war had not started easily for John Worden, a forty-four year old career Navy-man, who was a midshipman at age sixteen. He had the dubious distinction of becoming one of the prisoners of war in the operations to reinforce Fort Pickens just as Sumter was being fired upon. While Worden [...]
Eric | January 15, 2012
January 15, 1862 (Wednesday) Immediately after he softened his letter to Simon Cameron from a brusque dismissal to an acceptance of resignation, President Lincoln sat down with Edwin Stanton, who would be approved by the Senate to be the new Secretary of War, on this date. Though Lincoln had Stanton pegged, he allowed Cameron to [...]
Eric | January 14, 2012
January 14, 1862 (Tuesday) General Stonewall Jackson had been holed up with his men at Unger’s Store for nearly a week. Having failed to take Hancock, Maryland, Jackson turned for a move on Romney, forty frozen miles away. During that week, Romney had been abandoned by the Federals, much to the chagrin of General Frederick [...]
Eric | January 13, 2012
January 13, 1862 (Monday) The events of the Washington weekend laid the ground for Monday morning. In the span of two short days, Secretary of War Simon Cameron was harshly fired by Lincoln, General McDowell, taking advantage of General McClellan’s illness, tried to push his plan to attack the Rebels near Manassas, and, due to [...]
Eric | January 12, 2012
January 12, 1862 (Sunday) Though Union commander General George McClellan was recovering from typhoid fever and even doing some light ordering, he was still confined to his sickbed. In great distress, Lincoln had tried several times to visit with him, but was turned away (this time for good reason). In being turned away, he turned [...]
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