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Eric | May 6, 2012
May 6, 1862 (Tuesday) For the 8,000 men of Stonewall Jackson’s command, the past week had mostly been a needless slog through muddy and unmaintained roads. They had abandoned their camp near Swift Run Gap on April 30 to march upon Staunton, Virgina to bolter General Allegheny Johnson’s 3,600 facing off against part of General [...]
Eric | May 2, 2012
May 2, 1862 (Friday) “We are about to meet once more in the shock of battle the invaders of our soil, the despoilers of our homes, the disturbers of our family ties,” warned Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard to his veterans of Shiloh. “Face to face, hand to hand, we are to decide whether we are [...]
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 6, 2012
April 6, 1862 (Sunday) The Confederate Army of Mississippi was exhausted. After three treacherous days of marching through cold mud and rain, all 40,000 of them lay quiet, flat against the soaked ground waiting for dawn and the call to attack. As the dawn cast its first light slivers across the eastern horizon, Generals Albert [...]
Eric | April 5, 2012
April 5, 1862 (Saturday) The previous day had been a good one for George Briton McClellan, commander of the Union Army of the Potomac. The Rebels to his front gave up ground quickly as he advanced two columns up the Virginia Peninsula. Though a division had been withheld from him a few days ago, he [...]
Eric | April 4, 2012
April 4, 1862 (Friday) Though the Confederates in the Shenandoah Valley and south of Washington had fallen back, Lincoln was still apprehensive over covering the capital. The Rebels had fallen back to Fredericksburg, Orange Court House and Mount Jackson (in the Valley), but Washington wasn’t fully aware of how many were where. So worried and [...]
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