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Eric | May 18, 2012
May 18, 1862 (Sunday) The Spring of 1862 in the Shenandoah Valley was shaping up to be beautiful, and this quiet Sunday was no different. As the camp of Stonewall Jackson knelt in prayer near Mt. Solon, a very flustered and conflicted General Richard Ewell dropped by unannounced and without orders. This Sabbath would not [...]
Eric | May 15, 2012
May 15, 1862 (Thursday) Drewry’s Bluff rose ninety feet above the James River. The small fort, eight miles away from Richmond, built by Virginia farmers in 1861 had been expanded to a veritable fortress with seven pieces of heavy artillery. When the Union Army of the Potomac began their campaign up the Virginia Peninsula, after [...]
Eric | May 13, 2012
May 13, 1862 (Tuesday) Robert Smalls was born a slave in Beaufort, South Carolina, moving to Charleston with his master when he was twelve. There, through being hired out to other slave owners, he was able to learn the art of navigating the water, and to finally become a seaman. In Charleston is where he [...]
Eric | May 11, 2012
May 11, 1862 (Sunday) Well before dawn, the southeastern sky over Norfolk, Virginia burned a brilliant orange as Rebels set flames to ships, supplies and anything that would slow their flight to Richmond.1 The Federals had, the previous day, taken Norfolk, rendering the Naval Yard untenable. Many ships were sunk in the James River as [...]
Eric | May 10, 2012
May 10, 1862 (Saturday) The Union campaigns in the Spring of 1862 had bogged down. Both Generals Henry Halleck and George McClellan’s offensives had the crawling feel of being stuck in large pits of tar. In the west, the Army of the Tennessee, Halleck commanding, was inching and creeping closer and closer to the Rebels [...]
Eric | April 28, 2012
April 28, 1862 (Monday) Half of his men had deserted. The guns had been spiked and many of the gunboats destroyed. Confederate General Johnson Duncan, commander of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, was a beaten man. Those soldiers who remained at the forts were completely demoralized. Before the Union fleet, under Flag Officer David Farragut, [...]
Eric | April 25, 2012
April 25, 1862 (Friday) In the mid-morning of the previous day, New Orleans was abuzz with the rumor, entirely true, that the Union gunboats of Flag Officer David Farragut had steamed past Forts Jackson and St. Philip and were on their way to the Crescent City, sixty miles upriver. The Rebels in the forts were [...]
Eric | April 24, 2012
April 24, 1862 (Thursday) “You are assuming a fearful responsibility if you do not come at once to our assistance with the Louisiana and the fleet,” wrote Confederate General Johnson Duncan in the predawn, to Captain John K. Mitchell, commander of the Rebel navy at Forts Jackson and St. Philip.1 Duncan had spent much of [...]
Eric | April 23, 2012
April 23, 1862 (Wednesday) Things were not going well for the Confederates at Forts Jackson and St. Philip, guarding the mouth of the Mississippi River, seventy miles south of New Orleans. They had endured a near ceaseless bombardment for the past five days, which had caused great destruction, fires, loss of quarters, supplies, ammunition and [...]
Eric | April 20, 2012
April 20, 1862 (Easter Sunday) Along the darkened, muddy banks of the Mississippi River stood a dripping, filthy man hailing the mortar schooner Norfolk Packet, which had been lobbing shells at Confederate Forts Jackson and St. Philip for two days. It must have been a strange sight. The area had been swept by Federal pickets [...]
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