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Eric | February 22, 2012
February 22, 1862 (Saturday) February 22 was not only George Washington’s birthday, but was also the date given in Lincoln’s General War Order No. 1, which ordered that the “22nd day of February 1862, be the day for a general movement of the Land and Naval forces of the United States against the insurgent forces.” [...]
Eric | February 19, 2012
February 19, 1862 (Wednesday) In the hustle and bustle that was the Forts Henry and Donelson Campaign, Union General Halleck, commander of the Department of Missouri, was fearful, even panicked, of a Confederate attack on Cairo, Illinois from Columbus, Tennessee, not too far downstream. He had ordered General John Pope to the west shore of [...]
Eric | January 28, 2012
January 28, 1862 (Tuesday) “With permission, I will take Fort Henry, on the Tennessee, and establish and hold a large camp there.” -Brigadier-General U.S. Grant General Grant, commander of what would soon be called the Union Army of the Tennessee, had formulated a plan to take Fort Henry, along the Tennessee River. He, along with [...]
Eric | January 27, 2012
January 27, 1862 (Monday) In the eyes of President Lincoln, what little forward momentum that existed in the Union war effort had been coldly swept away in the snows of January. While it was true that there was a victory in Kentucky and some stirrings in Missouri, it was clear that the Army of the [...]
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