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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 | May 9, 2012
May 9, 1862 (Friday) General David Hunter, nearing sixty, had spent most of his life in the military. Though a West Point graduate of the Class of 1822, he saw little action. Through the Mexican War and the Indian Wars, Hunter was mostly confined behind a desk. A Republican, Hunter struck up a friendship with [...]
Eric | May 3, 2012
May 3, 1862 (Saturday) General Joe Johnston, Confederate commander on the Peninsula, spent most of the previous two days trying to figure out how to dislodge an army of 56,600 from Yorktown and its outer defenses. He had twenty-six brigades and thirty-six batteries. On the 1st, the plan was to move “tomorrow evening at sundown.”1 [...]
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 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, [...]
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