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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 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 17, 2012
March 17, 1862 (Monday) The Union Army of the Potomac, even by General George McClellan’s own admission, had been inactive all through the fall and winter. There was a purpose, claimed the General. There was a reason that the Rebels in the defenses at Centreville and Manassas had been unharmed, had been allowed to escape. [...]
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 [...]
Eric | March 13, 2012
March 13, 1862 (Thursday) Through the hermetic Mississippi fog came explosions of artillery from some nearby, yet shrouded embrasure. And then the cheers of the enemy. The Union bombardment of New Madrid, Missouri came suddenly, but as no surprise. The 18,000 men of the Union Army of the Mississippi, commanded by General John Pope, had [...]
Eric | March 5, 2012
March 5, 1862 (Wednesday) Union General Ulysses Grant, shockingly removed from field command by General Halleck only the day before, must have awoken to a very strange new day. Before receiving the news, he was planning a two-pronged advance up the Tennessee River. General C.F. Smith would command one wing, while Grant commanded the other. [...]
Eric | March 1, 2012
March 1, 1862 (Saturday) All across Tennessee, troops of both armies were on the move. The fall of Confederate Forts Henry and Donelson had completely crushed the thin Rebel line. The few Confederate troops not captured at the forts had fled to Nashville, where they joined the rest of General Albert Sidney Johnston’s Army of [...]
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