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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 | April 29, 2012
April 29, 1862 (Tuesday) Union Flag Officer David Farragut was again taking his title quite literally. He had threatened to bombard the city of New Orleans if United States flags were not flying over City Hall, the Mint and the Custom House by the following day. The city was without military defenses, and the Mayor [...]
Eric | April 19, 2012
April 19, 1862 (Saturday) It was an incredibly rainy day in the Shenandoah Valley as General Stonewall Jackson’s army of 8,000 began another pre-dawn retreat south. They had slogged nearly 100 miles in the past month, following their dismantling at the Battle of Kernstown, the Federal cavalry nipping at their heels incessantly. The Confederate cavalry, [...]
Eric | April 8, 2012
April 8, 1862 (Tuesday) Since their tactical victory/strategic defeat at Glorieta Pass, New Mexico, the Confederates under General Henry Sibley had been celebrating/lamenting in Santa Fe. By the 4th of April, Sibley’s entire army, which had been scattered before the battle, was finally whole. The problem (and what turned the victory into a defeat) was [...]
Eric | April 7, 2012
April 7, 1862 (Monday) General Grant tried to sleep, first under a tree near his men and then in a cabin that he found already occupied with the wounded. Through the night, Union transports and reinforcements arrived at Pittsburg Landing, bringing 25,000 much-needed men. Grant was certain that his line could withstand a Confederate attack. [...]
Eric | April 1, 2012
April 1, 1862 (Tuesday – All Fool’s Day) Washington was growing too hot for General George McClellan. The War Department were still meddling and just the previous day, Lincoln had bowed to political pressures and reduced McClellan’s Army of the Potomac by transferring General Blenker’s entire division, roughly 10,000 men, to Western Virginia. McClellan was [...]
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 16, 2012
March 16, 1862 (Sunday) Though the Confederates had given up New Madrid, Missouri on the Mississippi, it was not the key to the river. Fortified much stronger than the abandoned town was Island No. 10, so named as it was the 10th island downstream from Cairo, Illinois. Island No. 10 anchored the Confederate left upon [...]
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