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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 17, 2012
May 17, 1862 (Saturday) Since his time in the Mexican War, General Irvin McDowell had done little more than sit behind a desk. That is, until the eruption of hostilities between North and South, at which time he was a major on General Winfield Scott’s staff. In need of officers, he was quickly raised three [...]
Eric | May 14, 2012
May 14, 1862 (Wednesday) General George McClellan’s trudge up the Virginia Peninsula was slow going to be sure. He needed more troops, more ammunition and more time. A week prior, he had made one effort to cut off the Confederate retreat by throwing a couple divisions between the Army of Northern Virginia and their capital. [...]
Eric | May 12, 2012
May 12, 1862 (Monday) Stonewall Jackson’s oft-remembered Shenandoah Valley campaign rightly brings to the General much fame and admiration. But for those under this strange man, vexation and limitation were often counter-pieces to victory. Following Jackson’s victory at McDowell, the Union forces under Generals Schenck and Milroy retreated towards Franklin [in modern West Virginia], setting [...]
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 8, 2012
May 8, 1862 (Thursday) Union General Robert Milroy and his 4,000 men knew they were alone in the indefensible town of McDowell with the combined forces of Stonewall Jackson and Allegheny Johnson nearly upon them. Long before day, General Milroy called his troops together, bracing themselves to make a stiff, nearly hopeless defense. The only [...]
Eric | May 7, 2012
May 7, 1862 (Wednesday) While Union Generals Sumner and Hooker fought the Battle of Williamsburg against Confederate General Longstreet (and each other), Federal commander General George McClellan had remained back at Yorktown. During the battle, he had heard the sound of a sharp fight, even telegraphing Washington about it, but never ventured forward to see [...]
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 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 | 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 [...]
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