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Eric | January 14, 2012
January 14, 1862 (Tuesday) General Stonewall Jackson had been holed up with his men at Unger’s Store for nearly a week. Having failed to take Hancock, Maryland, Jackson turned for a move on Romney, forty frozen miles away. During that week, Romney had been abandoned by the Federals, much to the chagrin of General Frederick [...]
Eric | January 10, 2012
January 10, 1862 (Friday) Immediately after General Stonewall Jackson’s men evacuated their positions opposite Hancock, Maryland, to make their icy trudge southward to Unger’s Store, Union General Frederick Lander planned to pursue. Originally, Lander had been dispatched to take command at Romney, but stumbled upon Jackson near Hancock and decided to lend a hand. The [...]
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 [...]
Eric | January 8, 2012
January 8, 1862 (Wednesday) As secessionist Missouri clung to the fading hope that General Price could retake the state, bands of recruits still flooded towards his main body in Springfield. One of the finest recruiting agents was Col. John Poindexter. He and his 800 Rebels, along with a similar number of raw recruits, had encamped [...]
Eric | January 7, 2012
January 7, 1862 (Tuesday) Listen to the mocking bird Listen to the mocking bird This dawn brought no light to the skies over Stonewall Jackson’s men, trudging south from the Potomac River towards Romney. The temperatures, well below freezing, seemed ever colder, with ceaseless winds, and ice underfoot. The weather could be seen only in [...]
Eric | January 6, 2012
January 6, 1862 (Monday) President Lincoln had taken temporary control of the Union army since General George McClellan, its commander, had fallen gravely ill. In the past few days, however, McClellan was recovering. By this time, he was even well enough to tolerate a visit from Lincoln, who wanted to share the evolving situation in [...]
Eric | January 3, 2012
January 3, 1862 (Friday) After a brief few days of warm, even balmy, winter weather, it was gone, replaced by bitterly chilling wind, snow and a thermometer that plunged into the single digits as Stonewall Jackson’s 11,000 men shivered their way from Winchester to Romney. They stepped off at 6am on the first day of [...]
Eric | January 2, 2012
January 2, 1862 (Thursday) Though Abraham Lincoln had little military experience, he was fascinated with weaponry and technology. No gun held his attention more than the Union Repeating Rifle, which he coined “the coffee mill gun.” Back in June, Lincoln himself had tested the new firearm. It had been presented by a New Yorker named [...]
Eric | January 1, 2012
January 1, 1862 (New Year’s Day – Wednesday) Without cheers, jeers, ceremony or even much notice, James Mason and John Slidell, Confederate envoys to England and France, held prisoner by the United States since November 8th, were released from Fort Warren in Boston Harbor. After they were seized from the decks of the British vessel [...]
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