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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 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 | 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 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 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 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 10, 2011
November 10, 1861 (Sunday) The town of Guyandotte in western Virginia was situated along the banks of the Ohio, at the mouth of the river which gave the town its name. Kellian Whaley, a former Virginia and current Western Virginia congressman, was commissioned by Governor Pierpoint to raise a company of Union troops in Guyandotte. [...]
Eric | November 5, 2011
November 5, 1861 (Tuesday) As the sun lit up the Atlantic sky over Port Royal, South Carolina, the masts of the Union Naval fleet under Flag Officer Du Pont appeared like a forest growing out of the sea. Two Rebel forts, Beauregard and Walker, guarded the inlet. The Union wanted a port on the Southern [...]
Eric | November 1, 2011
November 1, 1861 (Friday) For President Lincoln and his Cabinet, the day began at 9am. They met to discuss and debate General-in-Chief Winfield Scott’s request to be placed on the retired list. The Cabinet was unanimous that it should be accepted and General George B. McClellan should be given the position. Lincoln, however, was not [...]
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