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 | 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 8, 2012
March 8, 1862 (Saturday) Following the victory of the previous day, the Confederate Army of the West, commanded by Earl Van Dorn, was hardly ready to rest lazily upon its laurels. The Rebel soldiers were exhausted and aching with hunger, but a victory over the Union Army of the Southwest would mean feasting upon the [...]
Eric | March 7, 2012
March 7, 1862 (Friday) All through the cold and snowy night, Confederate campfires, orange and flickering, dotted the hillside across from Little Sugar Creek, near Pea Ridge, Arkansas. Though they burned to their front, the Rebel Army of the West was actually moving around the right flank to the rear of the Union Army of [...]
Eric | March 6, 2012
March 6, 1862 (Thursday) Through the swirling March snow of the previous day, an Arkansas Unionist fell in with a regiment of Texas cavalry moving north on Telegraph Road. He asked them what they were doing so far north of their camps. The Confederate Army of the West, 16,000-strong, commanded by General Earl Van Dorn [...]
Eric | March 3, 2012
March 3, 1862 (Monday) Telegraph Road ran from St. Louis, Missouri to Fort Smith, Arkansas. Like its name implied, telegraph wires were strung along its length. Before that, it was part of the Ozark Trail and the Trail of Tears. It connected St. Louis with the west via the Butterfield Overland Mail Route. It was [...]
Eric | February 23, 2012
February 23, 1862 (Sunday) The Union Army of the Southwest was doing its job very well. After being hastily assembled in Rolla, Missouri, its commander, General Samuel Curtis, a West Point graduate with surprisingly little military experience, had General Sterling Price’s Rebel army on the run. On the 12th, Price abandoned Springfield and Curtis followed [...]
Eric | February 17, 2012
February 17, 1862 (Monday) It had been several days that had passed since Union Col. Canby at Fort Craig, New Mexico had a very slight brush with General Henry Sibley’s Confederate Army of New Mexico. Though the narrowly-averted battle was with Sibley’s Texan scouts, Canby knew that the rest of the Rebel army was near [...]
Eric | February 12, 2012
February 12, 1862 (Wednesday) As night became morning, General Grant’s army trudged its way east toward Confederate Fort Donelson, along the Cumberland River at the Kentucky/Tennessee border. General Gideon Pillow, the fort’s commander, rode to meet with General Floyd. Pillow had seemingly no idea that the Federals were on the move, let alone a mere [...]
Eric | January 29, 2012
January 29, 1862 (Wednesday) With petition in hand, Confederate General William B. Taliaferro rode into Richmond, hoping to stir up some changes on the Stonewall Jackson front. Taliaferro had been in the thick of the plot to move General Loring’s Army of the Northwest from the hole that was Romney, Virginia [now West Virginia] to [...]
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