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Eric | February 12, 2012
February 12, 1862 (Wednesday) As night became morning, General Grant’s army trudged its way east toward Confederate Fort Donelson, along the Cumberland River at the Kentucky/Tennessee border. General Gideon Pillow, the fort’s commander, rode to meet with General Floyd. Pillow had seemingly no idea that the Federals were on the move, let alone a mere [...]
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 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 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 9, 2012
January 9, 1862 (Thursday) While General McClellan, commander of the entire Union army, urged General Buell in Kentucky to move on Eastern Tennessee, and General Halleck to create a diversion in Missouri, he also wished for some kind of action on the coast of North Carolina. All of these things were to take place for [...]
Eric | January 8, 2012
January 8, 1862 (Wednesday) As secessionist Missouri clung to the fading hope that General Price could retake the state, bands of recruits still flooded towards his main body in Springfield. One of the finest recruiting agents was Col. John Poindexter. He and his 800 Rebels, along with a similar number of raw recruits, had encamped [...]
Eric | January 3, 2012
January 3, 1862 (Friday) After a brief few days of warm, even balmy, winter weather, it was gone, replaced by bitterly chilling wind, snow and a thermometer that plunged into the single digits as Stonewall Jackson’s 11,000 men shivered their way from Winchester to Romney. They stepped off at 6am on the first day of [...]
Eric | January 2, 2012
January 2, 1862 (Thursday) Though Abraham Lincoln had little military experience, he was fascinated with weaponry and technology. No gun held his attention more than the Union Repeating Rifle, which he coined “the coffee mill gun.” Back in June, Lincoln himself had tested the new firearm. It had been presented by a New Yorker named [...]
Eric | December 30, 2011
December 30, 1861 (Monday) The one thing that Missouri needed, believed General Sterling Price, was the Confederate Army. Price, the commander of the secessionist Missouri State Guard, had pleaded for months that the official Confederate armies come to his assistance in the southwestern part of the state. After a foray north towards Lexington, he had [...]
Eric | December 28, 2011
December 28, 1861 (Saturday) Two days before Christmas, the commander of Union forces in Missouri, General Henry Halleck, began to crack down upon secessionist bridge burners in the northern part of the state. To suppress the insurrectionists, he placed General Benjamin Prentiss in charge of the troops near the Northern Missouri Railroad. His orders were [...]
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