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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 | 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 4, 2012
March 4, 1862 (Tuesday) Union General Henry Halleck, commander of the Department of Missouri and General Ulysses S. Grant’s superior, was in an especially foul mood. Soon after the Federals took Nashville, Grant had visited the city without orders to do so. While he was merely meeting with the senior General in the field, Don [...]
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 [...]
Eric | February 25, 2012
February 25, 1862 (Tuesday) Two different Federal forces were approaching Nashville, recently abandoned by the Rebels. Up the Cumberland River, General William “Bull” Nelson, with 7,000 men, was, by morning, five miles away from the city. General Don Carlos Buell, with a small portion of his Army of the Ohio (about 9,000, so far), had [...]
Eric | February 24, 2012
February 24, 1862 (Monday) The work on General McClellan’s Peninsula plan was lagging, possibly lacking. He seemed more than content to wait indefinitely before even setting a date he would bring it to fruition. Fortunately for him, he could busy himself in other ways. The Union line around Washington stretched south of the city, along [...]
Eric | February 20, 2012
February 20, 1862 (Thursday) General Sibley’s Confederate Army of New Mexico rose before the sun, continuing their flank march up the eastern shore of the Rio Grande. Their objective, eight or so miles north, was Valverde Ford, along the Union supply line to nearby Fort Craig. If the Rebels held the ford, they could starve [...]
Eric | February 19, 2012
February 19, 1862 (Wednesday) In the hustle and bustle that was the Forts Henry and Donelson Campaign, Union General Halleck, commander of the Department of Missouri, was fearful, even panicked, of a Confederate attack on Cairo, Illinois from Columbus, Tennessee, not too far downstream. He had ordered General John Pope to the west shore of [...]
Eric | January 30, 2012
January 30, 1862 (Thursday) Things were moving swiftly for Henry Halleck, Union commander in Missouri. His plan to fall upon Fort Henry along the Tennessee River had been echoed by General Grant, who wanted to strike immediately. Halleck wanted to hold off until he had 60,000 men and a commander who wasn’t Ulysses S. Grant. [...]
Eric | January 26, 2012
January 26, 1862 (Sunday) With the Union victory at Mill Springs, General Don Carlos Buell, commander of the Department of the Ohio, was handed two opportunities. The Rebels, under General George Crittenden, had been scattered, leaving the door to Eastern Tennessee wide open but slightly defended. It also freed up General Thomas, Union commander at [...]
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