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Eric | April 25, 2012
April 25, 1862 (Friday) In the mid-morning of the previous day, New Orleans was abuzz with the rumor, entirely true, that the Union gunboats of Flag Officer David Farragut had steamed past Forts Jackson and St. Philip and were on their way to the Crescent City, sixty miles upriver. The Rebels in the forts were [...]
Eric | March 14, 2012
March 14, 1862 (Friday) A long month had passed since Union General Ambrose Burnside and his Coast Division had taken Roanoke Island and wiped out the small Confederate “Mosquito Fleet” at Elizabeth City. The town of New Bern was situated thirty-five miles up the Neuse River and was the most important town in the area. [...]
Eric | February 8, 2012
February 8, 1862 (Saturday) Union General John Foster, thus far in the war, had been kept busy. Even before the first shots were fired, he found himself in the thick of things, commanding Fort Moultrie in Charleston Harbor. When Major Robert Anderson transfered all of the troops to Fort Sumter (which Foster helped build), John [...]
Eric | February 7, 2012
February 7, 1862 (Friday) The first fingers of dawn slipped over the Atlantic, slowly throwing off the nebulous shroud of fog that thickly clung to Pamlico Sound since the previous morning. Through the wispy remnants, the sailor of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron could see the signal flying from General Ambrose Burnside’s flagship: “Today the [...]
Eric | February 5, 2012
February 5, 1862 (Wednesday) Since we last left General Ambrose Burnside, stranded with his joint fleet off the coast of Cape Hatteras, bobbing and flailing amidst storm after storm, little of his plight had changed until very recently. Of Burnside’s fleet of eighty vessels, several had been lost. The soldiers, huddled and no doubt terrified, [...]
Eric | January 13, 2012
January 13, 1862 (Monday) The events of the Washington weekend laid the ground for Monday morning. In the span of two short days, Secretary of War Simon Cameron was harshly fired by Lincoln, General McDowell, taking advantage of General McClellan’s illness, tried to push his plan to attack the Rebels near Manassas, and, due to [...]
Eric | January 11, 2012
January 11, 1862 (Saturday) That a great fleet of Union Navy vessels had gathered around Fortress Monroe was the news of the day. Northern, as well as Southern, newspapers batted around their speculations like kittens faced with too many balls of yarn. The Richmond Dispatch even correctly guessed its destination: Pamlico Sound on the North [...]
Eric | January 9, 2012
January 9, 1862 (Thursday) While General McClellan, commander of the entire Union army, urged General Buell in Kentucky to move on Eastern Tennessee, and General Halleck to create a diversion in Missouri, he also wished for some kind of action on the coast of North Carolina. All of these things were to take place for [...]
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