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Eric | April 30, 2012
April 30, 1862 (Wednesday) Union General Henry Halleck, commanding the Department of the Mississippi, had taken a steamer from his headquarters in St. Louis to the battlefield at Shiloh, where the Army of the Tennessee and Army of the Ohio, commanded by Generals Grant and Buell, respectively, had been victorious. In the span since the [...]
Eric | March 29, 2012
March 29, 1862 (Saturday) Confederate General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard was the hero of Fort Sumter, the hero of Manassas and, should he accept command of the western army, potential hero of the Mississippi. In the weeks since his arrival, Southern forces in Tennessee had taken great losses, starting with Forts Henry and Donelson, and [...]
Eric | March 19, 2012
March 19, 1862 (Wednesday) By the chilly dawn, Union troops had expeditiously thrown a flimsy bridge across Cedar Creek, just north of Strasburg, in the Shenandoah Valley. The previous day, they arrived just in time to see Turner Ashby’s Rebel cavalry, numbering near 700, set a torch to the bridge and exchange some artillery fire. [...]
Eric | March 18, 2012
March 18, 1862 (Tuesday) One of the stipulations placed upon Union General George McClellan, when he was granted permission to move his Army of the Potomac from the entrenchments around Washington to the coastal Fortress Monroe, was that he had to leave an adequate number of troops to defend the capital. For the time being, [...]
Eric | March 15, 2012
March 15, 1862 (Saturday) Feuds conducted via overland mail and telegraph lines necessarily crept slowly to resolution. The accusations leveled against Union General Ulysses S. Grant by his commander, General Halleck and supported by General-in-Chief George McClellan were slow to dissolve. Halleck had removed Grant from field command due to Grant’s lack of communication, his [...]
Eric | March 5, 2012
March 5, 1862 (Wednesday) Union General Ulysses Grant, shockingly removed from field command by General Halleck only the day before, must have awoken to a very strange new day. Before receiving the news, he was planning a two-pronged advance up the Tennessee River. General C.F. Smith would command one wing, while Grant commanded the other. [...]
Eric | March 4, 2012
March 4, 1862 (Tuesday) Union General Henry Halleck, commander of the Department of Missouri and General Ulysses S. Grant’s superior, was in an especially foul mood. Soon after the Federals took Nashville, Grant had visited the city without orders to do so. While he was merely meeting with the senior General in the field, Don [...]
Eric | March 1, 2012
March 1, 1862 (Saturday) All across Tennessee, troops of both armies were on the move. The fall of Confederate Forts Henry and Donelson had completely crushed the thin Rebel line. The few Confederate troops not captured at the forts had fled to Nashville, where they joined the rest of General Albert Sidney Johnston’s Army of [...]
Eric | February 25, 2012
February 25, 1862 (Tuesday) Two different Federal forces were approaching Nashville, recently abandoned by the Rebels. Up the Cumberland River, General William “Bull” Nelson, with 7,000 men, was, by morning, five miles away from the city. General Don Carlos Buell, with a small portion of his Army of the Ohio (about 9,000, so far), had [...]
Eric | February 24, 2012
February 24, 1862 (Monday) The work on General McClellan’s Peninsula plan was lagging, possibly lacking. He seemed more than content to wait indefinitely before even setting a date he would bring it to fruition. Fortunately for him, he could busy himself in other ways. The Union line around Washington stretched south of the city, along [...]
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